Terry Bond is Vice President for Research and Director of Work-Life Research. In addition to providing technical advice on research design and data analysis to all major research projects of the Institute, he has day-to-day responsibility for the Institute's work-life research program. Included in this area are The National Study of the Changing Workforce and The Business Work-Life Study. The former surveys nationally representative samples of employees and the latter surveys nationally representative samples of employers every five years.

Before joining Families and Work Institute, he was Deputy Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University where he helped develop the program work of the new center, including public policy analysis and field-based research concerned with maternal and child health, early care and education, service integration, welfare reform, and the demographics of child and family poverty. Prior to joining the Center at Columbia University, he was founding Director of the National Council of Jewish Women's Center for the Child, where he developed and managed research and action projects focused on work-family issues, family child care, child welfare, and parenting education. Before joining the Center for the Child, he was Director of Research at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, where he was involved in longitudinal research on the Perry Preschool Project, Head Start, and other early childhood programs for economically disadvantaged children, as well as applied research related to special-needs children, family support programs, and child and family literacy.

He has shared authorship of numerous Institute publications including Youth and Employment, The 1998 Business Work-Life Study: A Sourcebook, The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce, Beyond the Parental Leave Debate: The Impact of Laws in Four States, "The Effects of Childbearing on Women's Employment" in Parental Leave and Productivity, and The Changing Workforce: Highlights of the 1992 National Study. Other recent publications for which he had joint or sole authorship include "Single parents in the wage and salaried labor force" in the American Compensation Association Journal, "Work and family: The experiences of mothers and fathers in the U.S. labor force" in The American Woman 1996-97, and "Parents at work: Work-family conflict stress, and coping" in Children, Families, and Stress. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.