(The Conference Board: New York, New York) -- The Conference Board recently announced that Gail D. Fosler has been named president of the 91-year-old global research and business membership organization.

Fosler has served The Conference Board in a number of capacities over the past 18 years, most recently as executive vice president and chief economist. She will remain in charge of the organization’s global operations in key European and Pan-Asian markets, including China. She will continue as chief economist, directing the highly-respected Economics Research Program of The Conference Board, until her successor is named.

Fosler came to The Conference Board after serving as chief economist and deputy staff director of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. Widely-quoted by major media worldwide, her monthly newsletter is closely followed by global business leaders. The Wall Street Journal has twice named Fosler America’s most accurate economic forecaster. Under her direction, The Conference Board assumed the development and dissemination of the Leading Economic Indicators from the U.S. Department of Commerce, developed a broad-based program in productivity, labor-force dynamics, and innovation, and significantly broadened the global scope of its indicators.

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