Judith M. Gueron

Judith M. Gueron is on the Board of Directors of Alcoa.

Principal occupation: Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, a foundation devoted to research in the social sciences, since September 2004.

Recent business experience: Dr. Gueron was President of MDRC, a nonprofit research organization that designs, manages and studies projects to increase the self-sufficiency of economically disadvantaged groups, from 1986 to September 2004. She was MDRC's executive vice president for research and evaluation from 1978 to 1986.

Before joining MDRC, she was director of special projects and studies and a consultant for the New York City Human Resources Administration.

She has two daughters - Michelle and Nicole.

Other directorships: National Bureau of Economic Research.