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Richard E. Cavanagh, 59 is President and Chief Executive Officer and a Trustee of The Conference Board Inc. a leading research and business membership organization. He has held this position since November 1995. Previously he was Executive Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for eight years. Prior to the position with Harvard he spent 17 years with McKinsey & Company Inc. the international management consulting firm where he led the firm’s public issues consulting practice. Mr. Cavanagh is a Trustee of the BlackRock Mutual Funds (58 closed-end funds) Aircraft Finance Trust and The Educational Testing Service of which he is Chairman; and a director of The Fremont Group and The Guardian Life Insurance Company. He holds a BA degree from Wesleyan University and an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School. Director since 1999. | 