Our Commonwealth Alliance Staff Members
Peter Blake
Interim President
Peter Blake recently retired from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, where he served as its director from 2012 to 2024. He previously worked as a vice chancellor for the Virginia Community College System, as Deputy Secretary and Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and as a legislative analyst for the Virginia House Appropriations Committee.
He began his work for the Commonwealth at the Department of Planning and Budget and SCHEV. Out of college, he worked for several publications in the greater Richmond area.
He holds a history degree and a mass communications degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he served as editor of the Commonwealth Times. He is a member of the 2008 class of Lead Virginia and completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in 2016. He has served on several state and regional education-related boards, including the Richmond Public Library and the Richmond Public Library Foundation.