Committee for Economic Development

About the CED

The Committee for Economic Development is non-profit, non-partisan business led public policy organization. CED is dedicated to policy research on major economic and social issues and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors. Membership is made up of some 200 senior corporate executives and university leaders who lead CED’s research and outreach efforts.

Since its inception in 1942, CED has addressed national priorities that promote sustained economic growth and development to benefit all Americans. These activities have helped shape the future on issues ranging from the Marshall Plan in the late 1940s, to education reform in the past two decades, and campaign finance reform since 2000. CED's Trustees not only determine what those priorities should be; but also participate in the subcommittees which produce the policy statements containing CED's findings and recommendations.

CED is a Trustee-directed organization. CED's Trustees are chairmen, presidents, and senior executives of major American corporations and university presidents. Trustees alone set CED's research agenda, develop policy recommendations, and speak out for their adoption. Unique among U.S. business organizations, CED offers senior executives a nonpolitical forum for exploring critical long-term issues and making an impact on U.S. policy decisions.

CED is proud of its reputation as a group of business and education leaders committed to improving the growth and productivity of the U.S. economy, a freer global trading system, and greater opportunity for all Americans. CED's Trustees understand that business, government, and individuals are jointly responsible for our mutual security and prosperity.

Members of the Executive Committee

Co-Chairman

Joseph E. Kasputys

Founder and Chairman

IHS Global Insight, Inc.

Joseph Kasputys formed IHS Global Insight, Inc. to join together the world's premier economic information an consulting firms, consisting of Data Resources (DRI) and WEFA. With noted economist Dr. Allen Sinai, he also founded Decision Economics. Kasputys is founder and chairman of IHS Global Insight, Inc., and chairman of Decision Economics.

Kasputys served as chairman, president, and CEO of Primark Corporation from 1987 to 2000. In 2000, Kasputys completed the merger of Primark with Thomson Financial. He was chairman of Thomson Financial until his founding of Global Insight.

Before joining Primark, Kasputys served as executive vice president of McGraw-Hill. From 1977 to 1984, Kasputys hedl positions at Data Resources, Culminating in his election as president and CEO.

From 1972 to 1977, Kasputys served in the U.S. Department of Commerce, rising to the position of Assistan Secretary of Commmerce for Policy and Administration. He was also Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration and worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense duiring the Vietnam Conflict. He began working on national energy policy following the oil emabargo in 1973, and participadted in the founding of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Kasputys holds both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, and serves as director on a number of public and private boards. He was elected as CED's Co-Chair in 2008.

Donald K. Peterson

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired)

Avaya Inc.

Donald Peterson was chairman and CEO of Avaya Inc. from January 2002 to September 2006 and was its president and CEO from October 2000 to December 2001. He was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lucent Technologies from 1996 to 2000 and chief financial officer of AT&T's Communication Services Group from 1995 to 1996. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a director of Opti-scrip Inc.

Peterson also serves on the Board of Overseers of Darthmouth College's Tuck School of Business Administration. He earned a B.S in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business Administration. Peterson was elected CED Co-Chari in 2008.

Charles E.M. Kolb

President

Committee for Economic Development

Prior to joining CED in 1997, Kolb served as General Counsel of United Way of America from 1992. During ten years of government service, he held several senior-level positions. He served as a Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House (1990-1992) where he worked on several domestic policy issues involving economic, education, legal, and regulatory matters. 

From 1983 to 1990, he held three other government positions: Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget (1983-1986); Deputy General Counsel for Regulations and Legislation, U.S. Department of Education (1986-1988); and Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education (1988-1990).

Prior to government service, he practiced law at two Washington, D.C., law firms: Covington & Burling and Foreman & Dyess. He also was a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph H. Young in Blatimore, Maryland.

Kolb received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and did graduate work at Balliol College, Oxford University, from  which he received a Master's Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He is also the author of a book on policymaking in the first Bush White House and numerous law review and op-ed articles.

Roy J. Bostock   

Chairman

Sealedge Investments, LLC

He is the Chairman of the Board for Yahoo,Inc. since January 2008. He also serves on the boards of directors of Morgan Stanley and Northwest Airlines. From 2000 to 2001 he served as chairman of the advertising firm BCom3 Group, Inc. He is the chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and a former trustee of Duke University.

Bostock is a 1962 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke, where he was an English Literature major and a member of the varsity baseball and football teams. He and his wife have donated more than $8 million to Duke, and are the namesakes of Duke's Bostock Library. Bostock also received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bostock is married and has three adult children.

 Roderick M. Hills

Chairman

Hills Stern & Morley LLP

Roderick M. Hills (born 1931) served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1975 and 1977. Later he worked at the investment bank of Drexel Burnham Lambert and then at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. In 1962, he founded the law firm of Munger, Tolles, Hills, and Rickershauser (now Munger, Tolles & Olson) along with six other lawyers.

During his career he also served as a partner in the Washington law firm of Latham & Watkins, and as the chief executive officer of Peabody Coal. Since 1996 he has been a partner at the law firm of Hills & Stern. Since 1984 he has also served as Chairman of Hills Enterprises, Ltd. (formerly The Manchester Group, Ltd).

Roderick Hills got his LL.B. at Stanford Law School in 1955, following which he served as Law Clerk to Justice Stanley F. Reed, Supreme Court of the United States, 1955-57. He is married to Carla Anderson Hills. His son Roderick Hills, Jr. is a law professor at the New York University School of Law.

W. Bowman Cutter

Managing Director

The Cedars Capital Partners
Senior Fellow
The Roosevelt Institute

Mr. W. Bowman Cutter, III is the Chairman of the Board of MicroVest. Mr. Cutter is on the Board of Directors at Warburg Pincus Investors, L.P. He was a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus LLC. Mr. Cutter joined the firm in March 1996 and worked from the firm’s New York office. He focused on fund raising and investor relations. Prior to joining Warburg, Mr. Cutter was the Deputy Assistant for Economic Policy to the President and served on the National Economic Council ... in the Clinton Administration. Previously, he was an Executive Associate Director for budget at the Office of Management and Budget during the Carter Administration. 

Mr. Cutter also served as a Senior Partner with Coopers & Lybrand where he was the Vice Chairman of Strategy, a Member of the Firm Council, and Managing Partner of the firm's Strategic Services Group. He is a Director and Member at Wildcat Services Corporation and Resources for the Future; a Member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CARE; the Chairman of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) Steering Committee; and a Member of Advisory Board of Immigration and Refugee Services of America. Mr. Cutter is the Co-Chairman of the Business Policy group at the Committee for Economic Development (CED). He is also the Chairman of CED’s Subcommittee on Tax Reform. Mr. 

Cutter has served as the Chairman of the Board of Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA). Additionally, he has served on several committees of the National Research Council focusing upon the policy and management of the national space effort. Mr. Cutter served as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He received a Masters degree in Economics and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University; a B.Litt. degree in Economics from Oxford University where Mr. Cutter was a Rhodes Scholar; and a degree, summa cum laude, from Harvard University.

 
William W. Lewis 

Director Emeritus, McKinsey Global Institute

McKinsey & Company, Inc

William W. Lewis was a partner at McKinsey for 20 years. He was director of the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm’s economics think tank, from its founding in 1990 until his retirement from McKinsey in 2001.

Prior to his time at McKinsey, Bill held several policy-making positions in the U.S. government, including Acting United States Secretary Of Energy and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Earlier he served as Associate Provost at Princeton University and as Senior Financial Officer at the World Bank.

A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Lewis holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Oxford University, and a B.S. with Honors from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Bill is Chairman of the Board of Holy Cross Hospital and a member of the boards of the Committee for Economic Development and the George C. Marshall Foundation. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

Patrick Ford 

President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S.

Burson-Marsteller

Patrick Ford is president and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller, USA. As a public affairs and corporate communications specialist with more than 25 years of experience, he has consulted with a wide range of clients on reputation management, issues and crisis communications, ally development, corporate and CEO positioning, and media relations.

Since joining Burson-Marsteller in 1989, Pat served as a senior managing director in Burson-Marsteller's Public Affairs Practice before being appointed US Corporate Practice chairman in October 2003, rising to global chairman in January 2005. He became president of US operations in February 2006.

His current and recent client list includes: Allianz Life, Merrill Lynch, Nestle Waters North America, Royal Dutch Shell, and the US Postal Service.

Before joining Burson-Marsteller, Pat served as vice president for public affairs at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, DC. Before AEI, he was a public affairs specialist at Wagner & Baroody, for which he managed the Media Operations Center at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Pat began his career as a reporter for The Jersey Journal in Jersey City, NJ. He also served as a special New Jersey correspondent for Reuters.

Pat is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Public Relations and the Agency Management Committee of the Council of PR Firms, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation that identifies and supports effective grassroots organizations to assist low-income Americans in solving critical problems in their communities.

Cono Fusco

Partner (Retired)

Grant Thornton

Cono Fusco M.B.A. ’67 was elected a partner of Grant Thornton LLP on August 1, 1973. Throughout his 34 years as a partner, and 40 years in total with Grant Thornton, he has been viewed by colleagues as a successful, high impact leader. His career has spanned virtually all aspects of firm operations including: client service; office, regional and national managing partner positions; Senior and National Leadership Team; and Partnership Board member.

During his career, he created and led Grant Thornton’s Merger and Practice Integration strategy – the height of which was the successful integration of 600 former employees of Arthur Andersen including 60 partners. It resulted in a 24 percent increase in firm’s personnel and partner headcount at the time. More recently, he had been named among the 100 Most Influential People in Corporate Governance by Directorship Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and seminars sponsored by business groups, the accounting profession and academic institutions.

Mr. Fusco’s mother was, in his words, an original “women’s libber.” She worked as a bookkeeper in a private furniture business. Her sister (Cono’s aunt) was also a bookkeeper at a food importing company. Mr. Fusco remembers that these women spoke with reverence about the Certified Public Accountant who came in to review the business’ books. It was then that Mr. Fusco first considered a career in public accounting.

As an undergraduate, he went to Manhattan College. He lived at school, but off the main campus for the first year and “day hopped” thereafter until graduation. Starting out in Manhattan’s engineering program, he switched his major to business after the first year. Married in June of 1964, he finished his degree that same summer, and began his professional career in September.

He took a job at a local accounting firm – a job he considered to be an internship while waiting for entry into graduate school. During the course of the next nine months, he learned everything he could about the business and accounting. "To me, beginning a career in public accounting was like a decision not to decide. There are so many avenues to explore, and one doesn’t necessarily have to specialize immediately. In many ways, it was like going to college. I didn’t have to declare a major (right away)."

Living in Queens at the time, Mr. Fusco learned about Adelphi University’s School of Business. He started in the graduate program in September 1965 – as a full-time student, he took classes in the afternoons and early evenings. To pay for his education, he took odd jobs: as a service station attendant; parking cars; and finally as a controller for a family seafood restaurant in Queens. According to Mr.Fusco, he "learned enough about accounting at that job to know which end of the pencil to grab."

Upon completing his M.B.A. at Adelphi in 1967, he had a number of job offers, and accepted a position with Grant Thornton, LLP (nee Alexander Grant & Co.). He knew that by taking an additional six credits in accounting he would qualify to sit for the CPA exam one year earlier. He took those additional two courses, earned a second concentration in accounting, and then passed the exam with only two years of experience versus three as then required by law.

"Sometimes," Mr. Fusco recalls, "the best decisions are the ones that you never make." In 1968, a partner at Alexander Grant by the name of Hugh Reed left the firm to join Richard A. Eisner, a new start up accounting firm. Cono was recruited heavily to join Reed, and recalls that the offer they made "turned my head." Knowing that he needed to finish an assignment at Grant, he was prepared to leave three weeks later. But he had a change of heart, and was given the opportunity to get into the technical side (review department/quality assurance) of the business. When Mr. Fusco was at the company for three years, he was promoted to manager – a track that usually took eight to ten years to achieve.

In March 1972, Mr. Fusco was asked to go out to Grant’s National Office in Chicago to write a training program on internal control in connection with a proposed revision to the firm’s standard audit program. At the time, he was told it might take two weeks. “Technically, we were very good, but our process was not as good. There was sand in our gears.” Ultimately he became part of the team that completed the re-write of the audit program. A project that was supposed to take two weeks took four months to complete.

"I think there are certain types of people who go into accounting. Generally speaking, they are quantitative as opposed to qualitative. However, the most successful accountants, in my opinion, have the ability to transition from quantitative thinkers into qualitative thinkers."

Mr. Fusco offers an important word of advice for current Adelphi students majoring in accounting: "Success does not begin or end with the global six firms, no more so than the only good education you can get is at an Ivy-league school. If you don’t join one of the bigger firms, don’t feel like you’ve failed before you’ve started."

Now in retirement, he holds two trustee positions: one with The Economic Club of New York, and the other with The Committee for Economic Development. In addition, in the “next chapter” of his professional career, he hopes to put his 40 years of accounting and business experience to work – this time, as a director on the boards of a few select large cap or mid cap companies.

 

Frederick W. Telling 

Vice President, Corporate Policy & Strategic Management (Retired)

Pfizer, Inc.

Frederick W. Telling, Ph.D., vice president of Pfizer, Inc. in New York City and head of its Corporate Policy and Strategic Management function, has been elected to the national Board of Trustees of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, it was announced today. He will serve on the Revenue Development Committee.

March of Dimes trustees, who serve as volunteers, represent the public in governing the Foundation and helping it realize its mission to prevent birth defects and infant mortality.

Dr. Telling has been a volunteer leader for the March of Dimes North Jersey Chapter since the early 1980s. He was elected to the chapter Board in 1998 and was named chairman in 2001. He has also chaired the Major Gifts Committee since its inception in 1998.

Dr. Telling holds an M.A. in industrial and labor relations and a Ph.D. in economics and public policy from Cornell University. He and his wife Barbara live in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, with their daughter Jennifer.

The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies.

 

Josh S. Weston

Honorary Chairman

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Josh S. Weston has represented the Committee for Economic Development on the NBER's Board of Directors since 1994. Weston is the retired chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), which provides paychecks for more than 30 million workers worldwide, processes securities transactions for clients in 26 countries, delivers computing solutions to 16,000 auto/truck dealers, and estimates over 14 million auto damage claims annually. 

He served for 14 years as the company's chief executive officer and for five years as chief operating officer. In addition to being an honorary chairman of ADP, Weston serves on the boards of ADP, Russ Berrie & Co., J. Crew, Gentiva Health Services, and Aegis Communications Inc.

He is also active with the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations Association (UNA), and several other pro bono boards. A Fulbright scholar, he holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the City College of New York, a master's degree from the University of New Zealand, several honorary doctorates, and has served in the U.S. Navy.

Married to Judy for 48 years, Weston resides in Montclair, NJ. Recreational travel, skiing, and a wide network of friendships account for any spare time not earmarked for eight grandchildren and four children.

Joseph Gantz

Managing Director & COO

Pine Brook Road Partners LLC

Mr. Gantz has extensive experience as a senior operating manager and investor/general partner. For over twelve years, he served as President and CEO of Empire Brushes, Inc. and grew the company from a $27 million manufacturer with two facilities to an $85 million manufacturer and marketer with five facilities and over 900 associates. After redirecting the company to a marketing and new products driven company, he sold empire to Rubbermaid in 1994 and coordinated its integration and transition into Home Products, the flagship division of Rubbermaid, Inc.

Since 1995, Mr. Gantz has been actively involved as a principal in the following investments: Papel Giftware (an acquisition from Russ Berrie and Co.), Blue Ridge International Products, Fitz & Floyd, Bauer Investments, Changing Paradigms, and Home Fragrance Holdings. He is currently a managing partner in Gift Holdings Management, LLC and H3 Management, LLC. In several of these investments Mr. Gantz played an integral operating role. For example, he participated with Chase Capital in Seymour Housewares, a $100 million sale company, to increase shareholder value by working with a new management team before its successful merger into Home Products international, Inc., a $250 million public company.

Mr. Gantz has served on the Boards of Directors including the National Housewares Manufacturers Association (Chairman in 1993-94), American Brush Manufacturers Association (Chairman 1991), East Carolina University Business Council, Pitt Community College, and numerous community and civic endeavors in North Carolina and New York. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Hunt to a statewide School to Work Initiative Committee.

Since moving to New York, Mr. Gantz has served as a Board Member of Seeds of Peace, an organization committed to bringing young adults together from the Middle East and other areas of conflict to build bridges of communication and understanding. In addition, he sits on the Mercy College Board of Trustees. Mr. Gantz is also a member of the Committee for Economic Development and currently serves as Chairman of its Budget and Audit Committee.

Joseph Gantz has an MBA from Columbia University Business School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in Harrison, New York with his wife, Paula and two children. Their third child lives and works in New York City.

John P. White

Lecturer in Public Policy

Kennedy School of Management

John P. White is the Robert and Renée Belfer Lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has served as a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School since 1998.

Dr. White has held several senior federal government positions during his career, including U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1995–1997, Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1978–1981, and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics from 1977–1978. Prior to his most recent government service, Dr. White was the Director of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University and the chairman of the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces.

Dr. White also has extensive private sector experience, having served as Chairman and CEO of Interactive Systems Corporation from 1981–1988 and, following its sale to the Eastman Kodak Company in 1988, as General Manager of the Integration and Systems Products Division and a Vice President of Kodak until 1992. Dr. White also spent nine years with The RAND Corporation where he was the Senior Vice President for National Security Research Programs and a member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. John White is currently a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC, which specializes in private equity investments in technology, defense, aerospace and related businesses worldwide. 

He also is a Senior Fellow at The RAND Corporation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as a director of the Concord Coalition and Center for Excellence in Government. Dr. White received a B.S. from Cornell University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University.

Patrick W. Gross

Chairman

The Lovell Group

Patrick W. Gross "is Chairman of The Lovell Group, a private investment and advisory firm, where he works with a portfolio of venture capital backed private technology and internet commerce companies. He is engaged by the venture investors to help the companies grow to the next stage of development and benefit from his extensive experience.

"From 1970-2001, he was a founder and principal executive officer of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS), which grew to a $1 billion revenue company with 8000 associates serving clients from offices in the major cities of North America and Europe. AMS provided information technology services and enterprise software solutions to major corporations and government agencies. These solutions were leading edge applications of information technology and advanced analytics.

"Prior to founding AMS, Pat worked on the staff of the Secretary of Defense in the Office of Systems Analysis, popularly known in the press as “McNamara’s whiz kids.” Earlier, he worked at the General Electric Company.

"Pat has been a director of more than two dozen corporations ranging from angel-backed startups to NYSE firms. He has been lead independent director/presiding director of both NYSE and NASDAQ companies. He has served as chairman of the board of two private equity owned companies. He has served on and chaired audit, compensation, and governance and nominating committees. Currently, he serves on two NYSE company boards: Capital One Financial Corporation and Waste Management, Inc. and three NASDAQ company boards: Career Education Corporation, Liquidity Services, Inc., and Taleo Corporation.

"Pat holds leadership positions in a number of non-profit organizations: trustee and chairman of the research and policy committee of the Committee for Economic Development (CED), vice chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government, vice chairman of the board of Georgetown University Hospital, and co-founder and former chairman of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C, He is also a trustee of the Aspen Institute, a trustee of the Federal City Council, a director of the All Kinds of Minds Institute, a director of the Foreign Policy Association, and a member of the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

"He is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs, and the Economic Club of Washington.

"Pat holds three degrees: BES degree from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi), MSE from the University of Michigan, and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business."

"Patrick Gross is chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm he established upon stepping down as executive committee chairman of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. In addition, Pat has served as chairman of several companies owned by the private equity firms Carlyle Group, Thayer Capital, and Questor Partners." 

Ronald L. Zarrella

Chairman Emeritus

Bausch & Lomb Inc.

Ronald L. Zarrella, Ron served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bausch & Lomb Inc., since November 2001. Mr. Zarrella worked with General Motors Corp., where he served as Executive Vice President and President of General Motors North America from 1998 to 2001. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Zarrella served as Vice President and group executive in charge of General Motor's North American Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing Group.

From 1985 to 1994, Mr. Zarrella held several executive positions at Bausch & Lomb Inc., including served as President, Chief Operating Officer and a Member of Board of Directors. Before joined Bausch & Lomb Inc. in 1985, he held various executive positions with Bristol Myers Company and Esmark Corp. He has been Chairman Emeritus of Bausch & Lomb Inc. since March 2008. He serves as a Director of U.S. FIRST. He served as a Director of Avaya Inc. from February 27, 2002 to October 26, 2007. Mr. Zarrella served as a Director of Bausch & Lomb Inc. from 2001 to March 2008. He also serves as a Member of the board of FIRST Robotics, the Committee for Economic Development.

He serves as a Member of the board of the University of Rochester Medical Center and is a trustee of Rochester Institute of Technology and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. He is a member of the Rochester Business Alliance Executive Committee. Mr. Zarrella has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1971. He also attended New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Steven Gunby

Chairman, The Americas
and Senior Vice President

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

 Mr. Steve Gunby is currently employed at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. in the position of Senior Partner, Managing Director, Chairman of North and South America, and Member of the Executive Committee. Steve is a member of the Consumer and Retail practices and a coleader of their work on the East Coast of the U.S. While at BCG, Steve has led several major change-management efforts for clients. Beyond his work for the firm, he serves on the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a nonprofit organization.

Steve holds a B.A. with distinction in economics and government from Cornell University and a master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Organization and Management. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor of The Yale Law Journal.

Steve is Chairman of the Americas and a member of BCG’s Executive Committee. He joined BCG Boston in 1983 and founded BCG’s D.C. office in 1996. Steve is a graduate of Cornell University, the Yale Law School, and the Yale School of Organization and Management.