Orie L. Dudley Jr. is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Northern Trust Corporation, Chicago. He is responsible for setting investment policy and overseeing Northern's portfolio management activities.

Dudley received a B.A. degree from Harvard University. Prior to joining Northern Trust in his current position in October, 2000, he was chief executive officer and acting chief investment officer for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Ltd. in Edinburgh, Scotland. He joined Scottish Widows Investment Management in 1998 as chief executive officer and oversaw the organization's merger with Hill Samuel Asset Management to form Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in early 2000.

Before joining Scottish Widows Investment Management, Dudley spent four years with the Barclays Group, first as president and chief executive officer of Barclays McConnell Ltd. (Canada) and more recently in Europe as managing director of Barclays Asset Management, where he was responsible for the group's $7 billion European business. In addition, Dudley held several senior management positions with The Putnam Companies, including director of research, managing a team of 18 equity analysts and serving as a member of the executive and investment policy committees. His most recent positions with Putnam were as chief of institutional marketing, responsible for Putnam's $9.5 billion institutional business, and as chief of European development.

Earlier in his career, he served as an investment analyst at New England Merchants National Bank, and then as a consultant for Loomis, Sayles & Company. He subsequently served as president and chief investment officer of the Endowment Management and Research group's publicly traded Omega Fund before joining Putnam.