Raj Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Rohm and Haas, Elected to The Conference Board's Board of Trustees

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Jan. 14, 2009

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Raj Gupta, chairman and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company, has been elected to the board of trustees of The Conference Board, the global business research and membership organization. The role of the board of trustees is comparable to that of a board of directors in for-profit companies.

Ronald A. Williams, chairman and CEO of Aetna, has been appointed a vice chairman. The following trustees have retired from the board (as of October 2008), including: Alain Belda, chairman of Alcoa; Patrick Cescau, retired group chief executive, Unilever PLC; Anne Tatlock, director, retired chairman and CEO of Fiduciary Trust Company International; Hutham Olayan, president and CEO of Olayan America Corporation.

A complete list of The Conference Board's board of trustees for 2008-2009 follows:

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board

Douglas R. Conant, President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Vice Chairmen of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board

Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
Alan M. Dachs, President and CEO, Fremont Group, L.L.C.
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., Executive Partner, Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
Nandan M. Nilekani, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Ronald A. Williams, Chairman and CEO, Aetna Inc.

Other Members of the Board of Trustees

Richard T. Clark, Chairman, President and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.
Ian E. L. Davis, Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Gail D. Fosler, President, The Conference Board
Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade, Finance and Business, Yale School of Management
Anne Golden, President and CEO, The Conference Board of Canada
Francisco González, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BBVA
Raj Gupta, Chairman and CEO, Rohm and Haas Company
Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Alcoa, Inc.
Padraig McManus, Chief Executive Officer, Electricity Supply Board
Lim Chee Onn, Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation Limited
Michael E. Roach, President and CEO, CGI Group Inc.
Edward B. Rust, Jr., Chairman and CEO, State Farm Insurance Companies
Mayo M. Schmidt, President and CEO, Viterra
Samuel C. Scott III, Chairman, President and CEO, Corn Products International, Inc.
Jonathan Spector, Chief Executive Officer, The Conference Board
Anton van Rossum, Member of the Board of Directors, Crédit Suisse Group
G. J. (Hans) Wijers, Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel nv
Marjorie Yang, Chairman, Esquel Group of Companies
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation

For further information contact:
Sophia A. Muirhead
(1) 212 339 0373
sophia.muirhead@conference-board.org