Cecilia Conrad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cecilia Conrad

American professor

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1955

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cecilia Ann Conrad (born 4 January 1955) was the Stedman-Sumner professor of economics, vice president for academic affairs, and dean of Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA, and is currently Managing Director at the John D.
and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, where she leads the MacArthur Fellows Program and 100&Change, a global competition for a single $100 million grant.From 2008 to 2009, she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), she is also a former president of the National Economic Association, and a former board member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP).
Conrad is on the board of directors of the EDGE Foundation a program to help women successfully complete graduate studies in mathematics. Her research interests are in the effects of race and gender on economic status, which she demonstrates through her editorship of The Review of Black Political Economy and her previous directorship of the AEA's 'Pipeline Mentoring Program', run by the Committee on the Status Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP), a program which is designed to increase the number of minority doctorate holders in economics.