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Jonathan (Jon) Spector is Chief Executive Officer of The Conference Board, the not-for-profit global research and business membership group that publishes economic and management research and convenes senior executives in a wide range of forums.

Mr. Spector was appointed as CEO in April, 2007 after a yearlong search in which some 250 candidates were evaluated. He joined The Conference Board after serving as Vice Dean of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and after having been a senior partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He is the co-author (with Barry Libert) of We Are Smarter Than Me, which describes how companies can take advantage of social networking and crowdsourcing to enhance their business. The book came about as part of an experiment to see whether a large group of people could write a book about business. The project, documented at www.wearesmarter.org ultimately involved more than 5,000 participants and received broad coverage among bloggers and the mainstream press.

Mr. Spector is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University and a member of the Board of Directors of The March of Dimes. He earned his BA with honors in Math/Economics from Wesleyan, and his MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.