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Citizenship & Sustainability

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)


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Corporate Governance


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)

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)

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)


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Economic Environment

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 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 suc...(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)


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)


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Ethics and Compliance

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)


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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
Managing Director of Human Capital
linda.barrington@conference-board.org

Linda Barrington is Managing Director of Human Capital at The Conference Board.

Barrington directs global workforce and human resources research offerings at The Conference Board. Her current research projects include benchmarking top executive challenges, and assessing trends surrounding the maturing workforce, workforce readiness, and other related issues.

Barrington has authored several Confer...(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

Mary B. Young is Senior Researcher in Human Capital at The Conference Board.

Dr. Young leads The Conference Board program of research on Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) and has been a major contributor to our research on the mature workforce. Trained in organizational behavior and organizational development, she has studied strategic workforce planning's emergence and evolution as a business process ...(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 is Research Associate and Statistician in Human Capital at The Conference Board.

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 a...(more)


Christopher Woock
Research Associate, Human Capital
christopher.woock@conference-board.org

Christopher Woock, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in Human Capital at The Conference Board. His research explores the links between human capital and business performance, including assessing the link between employee practices and innovation; evaluating business' investment in the skills of its current and potential workforce; and issues surrounding a multigenerational workforce. Woock received his Ph.D. in eco...(more)


Mary V.L. Wright
Project Director, Human Capital
mary.wright@conference-board.org

Mary V.L. Wright is Project Director in Human Capital at The Conference Board.

Ms. Wright has thirty years of experience linking the public and private sectors. She now serves as the Project Leader for The Conference Board Workforce Readiness Initiative where she oversees the organization's research and outreach on how business engages in preparing the 21st century workforce. This work entails fol...(more)


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Marketing and Communications

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)


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