Dr. Bell has been a director of our Company, and prior to the Corporate Conversion, BGC Partners, since July 2013. Dr. Bell is currently the Claire Tow Professor of Economics and Provost Emerita of Barnard College, Columbia University. Previously she has served as the Provost and Dean of Faculty at Barnard College, Columbia University since 2012, where she also was the Claire Tow Professor of Economics. Prior to joining Barnard, Dr. Bell was the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College from 2007 to 2012 and a member of the faculty since 1992. Prior to her tenure at Haverford, Dr. Bell held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University; the University of California, San Diego; the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration at Princeton University and has taught at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Bell has also served as a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany since 2003, and as a senior consultant for the labor practice group of the National Economic Research Associates since 2006. Dr. Bell holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Linda A. Bell
Dr. Bell has been a director of our Company since July 2013. Dr. Bell is currently the Claire Tow Professor of Economics and Provost Emerita of Barnard College, Columbia University. Previously she has served as the Provost and Dean of Faculty at Barnard College, Columbia University since 2012, where she also was the Claire Tow Professor of Economics. Prior to joining Barnard, Dr. Bell was the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College from 2007 and 2012 and a member of the faculty since 1992.