Chairman of the Board

Carol Conway
Deputy Director, Southern Growth Policies Board

Carol Conway has 15 years of experience with Southern Growth Policies Board, serving in a variety of senior positions. She currently serves as deputy director and manages two of Southern Growth’s advisory councils: the Global Strategies Council and the Council for a New Economy Workforce. Her areas of policy expertise include: International trade and investment, international education and immigration, relationship-building overseas, and workforce development.

Prior to joining Southern Growth, Carol was a program director with the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CED). During her tenure, she designed and launched the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Export Trade Advisory Council and co-authored The International State: Crafting A Statewide Trade Development Systems, a book published by the Aspen Institute. She is also author or lead author for numerous publications, most recently The 2004 Report on the Future of the South, The Globally Competitive South: (Under Construction).

Carol has more than two decades of federal and state government experience in international trade policy. She has served as an economist with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Policy for the Import Administration of the International Trade Administration, and as financial consultant with the Division of Community Assistance in the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. She also holds the distinction of being selected as the 2001 North American Trade Educator of the Year. Carol serves on the board of directors for the University of North Carolina Center for International Business and Economic Research, and is Chair of the World Trade Center of North Carolina. Carol holds a masters of public affairs degree from Princeton University and a bachelors of science degree from Indiana University.

Contact Carol Conway at cconway@southern.org