Biography - Carol Corrado

Biography

Carol Corrado

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 program that studied the drivers of productivity and technical change and worked to improve the measurement of industrial production and capacity utilization. She co-organized a conference, Measuring Capital in the New Economy, held at the Federal Reserve Board in 2002 and whose proceedings were published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005.

Carol is a member of the executive committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Conference on Research on Income and Wealth (CRIW) and is a co organizer of a regular CRIW workshop at the NBER Summer Institute in Cambridge, Mass, that focuses on economic measurement. Carol received the Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003 in recognition of her leadership in measuring industrial production and capacity, productivity and information-technology output and prices. She was a recipient of a Special Achievement Award from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1998. Carol holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Management Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.