John Gardner

Vice President, Public Policy Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED)

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John Gardner

John Gardner

Vice President, Public Policy
Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED)

John S. Gardner is Vice President, Public Policy, at the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board. He served President George Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary at the White House, responsible for managing the execution and implementation of presidential decisions.

From 2001-2005, Gardner served as General Counsel for the US Agency for International Development, where he was responsible for all aspects of legal work, especially statutory analysis and administrative law. He worked extensively on international health issues and served as US member of the Governance and Partnership Committee of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and as a founding member of its Ethics Committee.

Earlier in his career, Gardner was Vice President, Government Affairs & Policy at AT&T and Vice President of the Schwab Washington Research Group, providing analysis to institutional investors on transportation industries, on antitrust mergers and cases, and US and EU competition policy issues.

Gardner was graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He earned an Mlitt in Modern History from Oxford University and received an AB in history cum laude from Harvard, with a concentration in American and East Asian history.

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