About Us

Board of Directors

Executive Committee
Nan J. Morrison, President & CEO
President and CEO
Council for Economic Education
Douglas Woodham, Co-Chairman

S. Buford Scott, Secretary
Chairman
Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.
Kenneth L. Thome, Treasurer; Finance, Audit and Investments Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Financial Operations (ret.)
General Mills, Inc.
Claire Gaudiani, Governance & Nominating Committee Chair
Adjunct Professor
Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
Barry Haimes, Co-Chairman, Development Committee Chair
Managing Partner
Sage Asset Management
Julia A. Heath, Affiliates Advisory Committee Co-Chair
Professor of Economics
University of Memphis
Willard Hill, Jr., Government Affairs Committee Chair
Managing Director & Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
MBIA Inc.
John J. Siegfried, Economic Advisory Committee Co-Chair
Secretary - Treasurer
American Economic Association
Robin Weiss, Marketing, Distribution and PR Committee Chair
Senior Vice President
Strategic Partnerships, LOYAL3
Life Directors
Harold Burson, Chairman Emeritus
Founder Chairman (ret.)
Burson-Marsteller
John T. Dillon, Chairman Emeritus
Chairman & CEO (ret.)
International Paper Company
Harold (Terry) McGraw, III, Chairman Emeritus
Chairman, President & CEO
The McGraw-Hill Companies
R. Madison Murphy
Managing Member
Murphy Family Management, LLC
William E. Odom, Chairman Emeritus
Chairman (ret.)
Ford Motor Credit Company
Board of Directors
Michael E. Bannister
CEO & Chairman
Ford Credit
Ivan Berkowitz
Chairman
Great Court Capital
Deidre Campbell
Managing Director, Corporate Financial
Burson-Marsteller
Robert A. Chlebowski
Executive Vice President
Wells Fargo
Mary Crego
Senior Vice President
State Farm Insurance Companies
Craig S. Donohue
Chief Executive Officer
CME Group
Robert S. Duboff
CEO and a Founder
HawkPartners
Lisa C. Egbuonu-Davis
Executive Advisor
Booz Allen Hamilton
Michael English
President and CEO
Missouri Council on Economic Education
Robert Fauber
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
Moody's Corporation
Benjamin M. Friedman, Economic Advisory Committee Co-Chair
William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University
Holly Hess Groos
Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence and Process Transformation
Verizon
Mary Ann Johnson
President
Johnson Custom Strategies, Inc.
Jennifer Just
Co-Founder & CAO
PEAK6 Investments, LP
Arkadi Kuhlmann
Chairman and President
ING DIRECT USA
Jeffrey M. Lacker
President
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Annamaria Lusardi
Professor of Accountancy and Economics
School of Business
George Washington University
Michael A. MacDowell
President
Misericordia University
Robert A. Marchman
Executive Vice President
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Simon Mendelson
Head of Cash and Securities Lending
BlackRock
Cathy E. Minehan
Managing Director
Arlington Advisory Partners
Mike Periu
Principal
EcoFin Media, LLC
Matthew Smith
Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy and Planning
HSBC
Gary H. Stern
Former President (ret.)
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis