Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer

Sally Wood

Sally Wood is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Council for Economic Education. In this role, she oversees finance, marketing, IT and sales operations for the organization, and works closely with the CEO to establish CEE’s strategy. She is an experienced general manager with a background in K–12 education and finance. She is keenly aware of the importance of providing tools for students and teachers to increase their economic and financial knowledge.

Before joining CEE, Sally held a number of senior management roles at Pearson, Viacom, and Bertelsmann, where she ran online and direct-marketing businesses in the education, media, and financial categories. She was also a Co-founder of Kapitall, an online investing platform designed to make investing tools and principles more accessible to new and casual investors. 

Sally currently serves on the boards of the Chicago-based American Writers Museum, and U.K.–based Brilliant Films LLC. She received a B.A. in English from Bennington College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.