Gail D. Fosler

Gail D. Fosler (born 1947) is president of The GailFosler Group, a strategic advisory service for global business leaders and public policymakers.
Fosler is former President and Trustee of The Conference Board. Prior to her role at The Conference Board, Fosler served as deputy staff director and chief economist of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. Fosler developed frameworks and forecasts for congressional budget debates and acted as a key negotiator on fiscal, monetary, and budget process initiatives for the committee.
Fosler is a director of Baxter International and Swiss Re America Holding. She is a past director of Caterpillar Inc., the Unisys Corporation, H.B. Fuller Company and Singapore DBS Holdings, and is a past trustee of John Hancock Mutual Funds. She also chairs the board of directors of the Deschner Corporation, a family-owned hydraulic speed-control business in Santa Ana, California.
Fosler is a member of The Conference Board’s Global Advisory Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, where she serves as an ex-officio member of the council’s Budget and Finance and Audit Committees. Other memberships include the Bretton Woods Committee, the Women’s Forum of New York and the International Women’s Forum. She is also a former trustee and Executive Committee member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a past member of the Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a former trustee of the Economic Club of New York.
Fosler received her B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and her M.B.A. in finance from New York University. She and her husband, Scott, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. They have one son, Michael.
Fosler was twice named America’s most accurate economic forecaster by The Wall Street Journal.