Stephen Wood is chief market strategist, North America, for Russell Investments, where he conducts research on the economy, capital markets, portfolio strategies, and investor behavior. He is a frequent contributor in the international media, having appeared on CNBC, BBC, Fox Business Network, Bloomberg TV, and PBS; and in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Previously he worked with institutional investment clients at Manning & Napier Advisors and with high-net-worth clients as vice president with Fisher Investments. Before that he worked at Alliance-Bernstein, the Milken Institute, and as a professor in California in the 1990s.