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Meredith Armstrong Whiting
Senior Research Fellow
Global Corporate Citizenship
meredith.whiting@conference-board.org
Meredith Armstrong Whiting joined The Conference Board as Senior Research Fellow in 1989, and became affiliated with the Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability in March of 2007. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications on a wide variety of issues, ranging from environmental affairs and sustainability to energy, carbon management, and health and safety to public policy topics, such as publi...(more)
David J. Vidal
Director of Research
Global Corporate Citizenship
david.vidal@conference-board.org
David J. Vidal is Research Director, Global Corporate Citizenship. He has held positions at: the Council on Foreign Relations, The Partnership for New York City, the U.S. Department of State, The New York Times, and The Associated Press. Vidal is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fulbright Scholar, and ...(more)
Carolyn Cavicchio
Senior Research Associate
Global Corporate Citizenship
carolyn.cavicchio@conference-board.org
Carolyn Cavicchio is senior research associate for global corporate citizenship for The Conference Board Center for Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability. With 20 years of experience in the field, Carolyn is a national expert in corporate community involvement and philanthropic programs, as well as a strategic planner, facilitator, analyst, and program developer. She previously founded and led the philanthropy ...(more)
Carolyn Brancato
Senior Advisor to The Conference Board
Governance Center and Directors' Institute
carolyn.brancato@conference-board.org
Dr. Carolyn Kay Brancato is the Founder and Senior Advisor, of the Governance Center and The Directors' Institute at The Conference Board. She also recently served as Director of The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise.The author of two major books on corporate governance, Dr. Brancato has been invited to speak on global trends in governance by leading organizations in North Americ...(more)
Matteo Tonello, LL.M., Ph.D
Senior Research Associate
Governance Center
matteo.tonello@conference-board.org
Matteo Tonello is a corporate governance and regulatory compliance expert with The Conference Board Governance Center in New York City. An international lawyer by background, Matteo has conducted for The Conference Board corporate law and risk management analyses and research in collaboration with leading corporations, institutional investors and professional firms. Also, he has participated as a speaker and mod...(more)
Gail Fosler
President
gail.fosler@conference-board.org
Gail D. Fosler is president of The Conference Board, directing its knowledge development and its global operations.
Under Fosler's leadership, The Conference Board's highly regarded research program tackles the tough issues facing large multinational businesses in a rapidly globalizing world. A constantly evolving research agenda is validated by regular interaction with The Conference Board's 2,000 memb...(more)
Bart van Ark
Vice President and Chief Economist
Economics Program
Bart van Ark is vice president and chief economist of The Conference Board. He leads a team of 20-plus economists who produce a portfolio of widely watched economic indicators and growth forecasts, as well as in-depth global economic research. A Dutch national, he is the first non-U.S. chief economist in The Conference Board's 90-year history.
Van Ark is an internationally recognized expert in internatio...(more)
Ken Goldstein
Labor Economist
Economics Program
ken.goldstein@conference-board.org
Ken Goldstein has been an economist at The Conference Board since 1971. His principal responsibilities include analyzing current trends in labor market activity and forecasting near-term economic development.
Specifically, he has maintained The Conference Boards Help-Wanted Index—a proxy measure for changes in labor demand. Since 1989, Goldstein has managed the monthly update of the The Conference Board ec...(more)
Gad Levanon
Senior Economist
Economics Program
gad.levanon@conference-board.org
Gad Levanon is a Senior Economist in the economics department at The Conference Board. Gad received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and holds an undergraduate and masters degrees from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He currently oversees a group of economists conducting research in various macroeconomic and productivity topics as well as working on the development of the Help-Wanted OnLine Data Ser...(more)
Ataman Ozyildirim
Economist
Economics Program
a.ozyildirim@conference-board.org
Ataman Ozyildirim is an Economist and Associate Director of Economic Research in the Economics Program of The Conference Board in New York. Dr. Ozyildirim joined The Conference Board in 1999 as part of the Global Indicators Research Institute. The Conference Board produces Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) for nine countries, the Consumer Confidence Index, the Help Wanted Online data series and other major indic...(more)
Eliza Winger
Associate Economist
Economics Program
eliza.winger@conference-board.org
Eliza Winger is Associate Economist at The Conference Board, where she is responsible for macroeconomic research on economic and business trends. She manages StraightTalk which is a monthly publication from the President of The Conference Board. It provides economic research, objective analysis, and forecasts to help new economy business executives assess economic conditions impacting their markets. Eliz...(more)
Victor Zarnowitz
Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor
Economics Program
victor.zarnowitz@conference-board.org
Victor Zarnowitz, one of the world's leading scholars on business cycles, indicators, and forecast evaluation, is Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor to The Conference Board. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
He has been with NBER since 1952, and with several other ...(more)
Lynn Franco
Director
Consumer Research Center
lynn.franco@conference-board.org
Lynn Franco is Director of The Conference Board's Consumer Research Center. She produces several monthly and quarterly reports that track both general and consumer economic trends, including the widely-followed Consumer Confidence Index. Franco also analyzes and forecasts long-term shifts in the consumer markets.
Franco also directs The Conference Board business confidence survey program, and produc...(more)
Carol Corrado
Senior Advisor and Research Director
Economics Program
Senior Advisor and
Research Director, Economics
The Conference Board
Carol Corrado is Senior Advisor and Research Director in Economics at The Conference Board, where she works on measuring intangibles and studying their role in the innovation process and economic growth. Previously, she was Chief of the Industrial Output Section at the Federal Reserve Board, where she managed a research...(more)
Ronald E. Berenbeim
Principal Researcher
Global Corporate Citizenship
ronald.berenbeim@conference-board.org
Ronald E. Berenbeim is a Principal Researcher, Business Ethics, at The Conference Board. An authority on business ethics and corporate governance issues, Mr. Berenbeim has written 44 Conference Board studies. His 2000 report, Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study, was funded in part by a research grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2001-2003 he se...(more)
Human Resources and Talent Management
Charles Peck
Principal Researcher & Program Manager, Compensation
Capabilities Management and Human Resources Strategies
charles.peck@conference-board.org
Charles Peck is the Principal Researcher and Program Manager on Compensation for The Conference Board.
Peck has written numerous studies on compensation and related subjects. His current research emphasis is on executive and director compensation. He has also contributed articles and reviews to Across the Board, The Bankers Magazine, Compensation and Benefits Review, The Corpora...(more)
Linda Barrington
Research Director, Labor Economist
Management Excellence
linda.barrington@conference-board.org
Linda Barrington is Labor Economist, Research Director at The Conference Board.
Barrington directs workforce and human resources research as Research Director of the Management Excellence Program of The Conference Board. Her current research projects include benchmarking workforce diversity, analysis of the relationship between productivity and workforce diversity, and assessing issues surrounding the ma...(more)
John M. Gibbons
john.gibbons@conference-board.org
John Gibbons comes to the Conference Board with more than 15 years in the field of Human Resources management. His career has spanned a number of industries, including financial services, consumer products, health care, international logistics and supply chain services, and retail. Most recently, John served as Director of Human Resources for Gap, Inc. where he was responsible for all HR support for the company'...(more)
Mary Young
mary.young@conference-board.org
Dr. Mary Young's research focuses on the workplace impacts of demographic trends such as the aging workforce. Her work for The Conference Board includes a just-completed study on Strategic Workforce Planning and new research she will be conducting for several upcoming Conference Board Working Groups on the Mature Workforce. She has conducted research for the Center for Organizational Research, the Human Resource...(more)
Jeri Sedlar
jeri.sedlar@conference-board.org
Jeri Sedlar is a Senior Advisor to The Conference Board on Mature Workforce Issues, business owner, speaker, and author of the highly acclaimed books, Don't Retire, Rewire! and On Target: Enhance Your Life and Ensure Your Success.
Sedlar has over 20 years of experience in the consumer marketing and professional services arena. As the former Editor-at-Large of Working Woman maga...(more)
Dr. Henry M. Silvert
Research Associate and Statistician
henry.silvert@conference-board.org
Dr. Henry M. Silvert, Research Associate and Statistician, Management Excellence
Henry Silvert specializes in research and survey design and quantitative analysis. Silvert contributes to regular reports by The Conference Board including the Consumer Internet Barometer, CEO Confidence Survey, and the annual CEO Challenge and compensation reports. He is also the co-author of the 2005 and 2006 report on <...(more)
Christopher Woock
Research Associate, Management Excellence
christopher.woock@conference-board.org
Christopher Woock is a Research Associate in the Management Excellence Program of The Conference Board. His current research projects include addressing the link between innovation and competitiveness, exploring the empirical links between human capital and business performance to create an "evidence-based" approach to Human Capital Analytics, and assessing issues surrounding the maturing worker. Woock received ...(more)
Andrew Tank
Executive Director
Research Communications and the Middle East
The Conference Board Europe
andrew.tank@conference-board.org
Andrew Tank is Executive Director at The Conference Board, responsible for The Conference Board's research and communications in Europe and for its activities in the Middle East. This includes on-going research projects in the fields of productivity, corporate governance and organizational effectiveness. Recent research he has directed includes Productivity, Performance and Progress in the countries of the G...(more)
Joan Dargery is the first Chief Operating Officer of The Conference Board. She assumed her new leadership role in January 2004, after 20 years of marketing and senior management responsibility at Unilever Bestfoods. She also serves as Executive Vice President of The Conference Board. For two decades at Unilever Bestfoods, she managed some of the company's most significant and profitable brands, including...(more)
Ellen S. Hexter, CFA Ms. Hexter leads The Conference Board's work in Enterprise Risk Management, developing research and executive programs on enterprise risk management. She manages seven Councils at The Conference Board, including both the European and U.S. Strategic Risk Councils and the Council of Financial Executives. She has managed The Conference Board's research on ERM and is the author of the recently published report on th...(more)
Joan S. Dargery
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
joan.dargery@conference-board.org
Director, Enterprise Risk Management, The Conference Board
ellen.hexter@conference-board.org
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