Barber B. Conable, Jr.

Mr. Conable was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965-1985. He served on the Ways and Means Committee for 18 years, the last 8 as its ranking minority member. For 14 years he served in various capacities in the House Republican leadership. He was also a member for shorter periods of time of the Joint Economic Committee, the House Budget Committee, and the House Ethics Committee.

Following his retirement from Congress he was on the boards of 4 multinational corporations and the Board of the New York Exchange. He was also named a Distinguished Professor of the University of Rochester.

Following his retirement from the World Bank, he has served on 4 corporate boards of directors. He was on the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, the Boards of both the Museum of the American Indian and the American History Museum at the Smithsonian, the Commission on Global Governance (an independent UN-related Commission), and the Security and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes. He was a member of the Senior Advisory Committee and the Global Environmental Facility. He is currently Chairman of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian. He also serves on the Board of the Genesee Country Museum, and on the New York State Commission on Student Aid.

Mr. Conable is a native of Warsaw, New York, and a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He was a Marine in World War II and the Korean War. He and his wife, Charlotte, are parents of three grown daughters and a son. The Conables reside at Alexander, Genesee County, New York.