Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute (FWI), a Manhattan-based non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing community.  Before co-founding FWI, Ms. Galinsky was on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education for 25 years, where she helped establish the field of work and family life.

At the Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs The National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce that is updated every five years, and was originally conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor. She is also co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that has produced a series of research papers, and has launched the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility as well as conducted The 2005 National Study of Employers, a nationally representative study that tracks trends in employment benefits, policies, and practices. Ms. Galinsky is the program director of the annual Work Life Conference co-convened by The Conference Board and Families and Work Institute and staffs The Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council.

A leading authority on work family issues, Ms. Galinsky was a presenter at the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers and the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. A popular keynote speaker, she appears regularly at national conferences, on television and in the media, including Today, Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, and Oprah.

Ms. Galinsky is the author of over 30 books and reports, including the groundbreaking book, Ask the Children, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best work-life books of 1999. She has published more than 100 articles in academic journals, books, and magazines.  She is one of the lead authors for the Center’s Research Highlights #1 and #2 which looked at demographics and gender differences among older workers.