Cecilia Conrad

Biography

Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Lever for Change. Dr. Conrad was formerly a Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where her portfolio included the MacArthur Fellows program and 100&Change. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Conrad was Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Stedman Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College.
Current board memberships include TIAA (Board of Governors), Giving Tuesday, the National Academy of Social Insurance, The Hypothesis Fund, The African Center for Economic Transformation, and IES Abroad. She is trustee emerita of Bryn Mawr College and Muhlenberg College. Conrad is a past president of the National Economic Association and the International Association for Feminist Economics and a trustee emerita of Muhlenberg College.
She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.