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Biography
Gail D. Fosler
Gail D. Fosler is president of The Conference Board, directing its knowledge development and its global operations.
Under Fosler's leadership, the highly regarded research program of The Conference Board tackles the tough issues facing large multinational businesses in a rapidly globalizing world. The program publishes a portfolio of widely watched economic indicators as well as in-depth research in such areas as productivity, labor force dynamics, innovation and comparative economic analysis, as well as corporate governance and corporate sustainability. The constantly evolving research agenda of The Conference Board is validated by regular interaction with its 2,000 member companies, approximately one-third of which are based outside the United States.
Headquartered in New York, The Conference Board has offices in Brussels and Hong Kong, representation in India and the Middle East, and a new research center in Beijing. In addition to such U.S. indicators as the Index of Leading Economic Indicators, Consumer Confidence Index, Help-Wanted OnLine and CEO Confidence, The Conference Board produces Leading Indicators for eight other countries.
Fosler was appointed president in October 2007. From September 1989 until April 2008 she served as chief economist, with a progressively expanding scope of responsibilities. In 2004, she assumed responsibility for expanding the international presence and operations of The Conference Board. Under Fosler's direction as chief economist, The Conference Board assumed the development and dissemination of the Leading Economic Indicators from the U.S. Department of Commerce; developed a broad-based program in productivity, labor force dynamics and innovation; significantly broadened the global scope of its indicators, and founded its China Center for Economics and Business. The Wall Street Journal has twice named the widely quoted Fosler America's most accurate economic forecaster.
Fosler is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee, director and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served on the Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a trustee of The Economic Club of New York. She is a director of Baxter International and Caterpillar Incorporated and has served as a director of the Unisys Corporation, H.B. Fuller Company, DBS Holdings (a Singapore company) and as a trustee for John Hancock Mutual Funds. Fosler chairs the Board of Directors of the Deschner Corporation, a family-owned, hydraulic feed-control business in Santa Ana, California. She is also a member of the New York Women's Forum and the International Woman's Forum.
Fosler received her B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and her M.B.A. in finance from New York University. She and her husband, R. Scott Fosler, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland; they have one son, Michael.
Publications by Gail D. Fosler:
Publications
Executive Action