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Conn studied at Boston University's University Professors Program before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts.{{Cite news|url=|title=Rhode Scholarship winners include first from city U|last=Gruson|first=Linsey|date=Winter 1982|work=New York Times|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/2012BILDERBERGMEETINGSSPECIALREPORT171/List%20of%20American%20Rhodes%20Scholars%20(1904-2014)-155_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Collection of Membership Rosters on the CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, and Rhodes Scholars"|website=archive.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}}Conn worked at the Boston Consulting Group and gained an MBA at Harvard Business School.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YVhdhNEi-pwC&dq=Charles+Conn+McKinsey&pg=RA1-PA327|title=The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases|last1=Mintzberg|first1=Henry|last2=Ghoshal|first2=Sumantra|last3=Lampel|first3=Joseph|last4=Quinn|first4=James Brian|date=2003|publisher=Pearson Education|isbn=9780273651208|language=en}}

Conn was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on growth strategies and energy.^[3]He was a co-author of 'Staircases to growth' in McKinsey Quarterly {{Cite web|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-growth/staircases-to-growth|title=Staircases to growth|website=McKinsey & Company|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}} and 'Revolution in Upstream Oil & Gas' in the same publication.{{Cite journal|last=Conn, White|first=Charles, David|date=1994|title=The revolution in upstream oil and gas.|url=|journal=McKinsey Quarterly|volume=3|pages=71–86|via=}} He co-founded Citysearch in 1995,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=229873&privcapId=238022487|title=Charles Conn III: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2018-06-05}} and in 1997 the California Software Industry Council named him Entrepreneur of the Year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=229873&privcapId=238022487|title=Charles Conn III: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2018-06-05}} Conn oversaw the merger with Ticketmaster, acquisition of Match.com and the company’s public share offering. He became Chairman of Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch in 2001.{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/11/business/fi-28820|title=Ticketmaster Names Conn as Chairman|last=News|first=From Bloomberg|date=2000-05-11|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.misosoup.com/caltech83/|title=Caltech 1983|last=Weston|first=Mike|website=www.misosoup.com|access-date=2018-06-05}}

Conn subsequently worked for more than a decade as Senior Advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation^[2]{{Cite news|url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/robbing_the_grandchildren|title=Robbing the Grandchildren (SSIR)|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-us}} where his conservation projects included the preservation of wild salmon ecosystems{{Cite web|url=https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=conservation-biology-through-the-lens-of-a-career-in-salmon-conservation|title=Conservation biology through the lens of a career in salmon conservation|website=www.moore.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}} and the Palmyra Atoll research station. He has published articles on conservation and conservation biology,{{Cite journal|last=CONN|first=CHARLES|date=2011-11-09|title=Conservation Biology through the Lens of a Career in Salmon Conservation|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01762.x|journal=Conservation Biology|language=en|volume=25|issue=6|pages=1075–1079|doi=10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01762.x|pmid=22070254 |s2cid=41297200 |issn=0888-8892}} including in the 25th anniversary edition (December 2011) of the journal Conservation Biology, and on the advantages of Foundations adopting a long-term perspective.

He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.{{Cite news|url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/henry-crown-fellowship/|title=Henry Crown Fellowship - The Aspen Institute|work=The Aspen Institute|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-US}} Conn also sits or has sat on several company and non-profit boards or advisory committees, including Patagonia,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgLnBAAAQBAJ&dq=Charles+R+Conn+++Patagonia&pg=PT82|title=The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years|last1=Chouinard|first1=Yvon|last2=Stanley|first2=Vincent|date=2013-10-06|publisher=Patagonia|isbn=9781938340109|language=en}} the Arcadia Foundation,{{Cite news|url=https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/charles-conn/|title=Charles Conn - Arcadia|date=2018-02-09|work=Arcadia|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-GB}} and the Atlantic Salmon Foundation.^[2] {{Cite web|url=https://0104.nccdn.net/1_5/16e/1db/182/ASF-Annual-Rept-2015.pdf|title=Atlantic Salmon Foundation, Annual Report, 2015|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}He acts as an adviser and investor in start-up technology companies that focus on clean energy solutions and related areas.

Conn became Warden and CEO of the Rhodes Trust in June 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/charles-conn-starts-as-warden-and-andrew-graham-becomes-rhodes-trustee|title=Charles Conn starts as Warden and Andrew Graham becomes Rhodes Trustee - The Rhodes Scholarships|date=2017-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226111404/https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/charles-conn-starts-as-warden-and-andrew-graham-becomes-rhodes-trustee |access-date=2018-06-05|archive-date=2017-02-26 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1531708/hong-kong-students-encouraged-apply-rhodes-scholarships|title=Hong Kong students encouraged to apply for Rhodes Scholarships|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en}} He is the second Rhodes Scholar, the first American and to hold this position, and the first Warden of Rhodes House not to have served previously on the University of Oxford faculty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/contact/the-warden-of-rhodes-house/|title=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}}

During his time as CEO of Rhodes House, Charles Conn led a project to transform the Rhodes Trust into a 21^st century institution. This involved raising more than £250m to secure the endowment for existing country scholarships and expand the Scholarships globally.  During this time the annual number of Scholars increased from 83 to 101, adding China, UAE, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palesetine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia, East Africa, West Africa and new global Rhodes Scholarships{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/world/europe/rhodes-scholarship-oxford.html|title=Rhodes Scholarship Program to Expand|date=2016-06-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}. During Conn’s tenure, the Trust deepened the Scholarship experience with a character, service and leadership program, and re-vitalized its intellectual mission and sense of lifelong fellowship with a convening program of current and alumni fellows including an annual forums on healthcare, new ventures, ethical leadership, education, climate change, LGBTQ rights and other topics. The Trust also worked to build a fellowship of fellowships and pioneered several new partnerships, including with The Atlantic Philanthropies to set up the Atlantic Institute and with the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation to establish Schmidt Science Fellows.^[16]{{Cite news|url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/schmidt-science-fellows-names-inaugural-cohort|title=Schmidt Science Fellows Names Inaugural Cohort|last=Center|first=Foundation|work=Philanthropy News Digest (PND)|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/anismuslimin/2018/04/24/former-google-chairman-eric-schmidt-announces-new-science-fellows/&refURL=https://www.google.co.id/&referrer=https://www.google.co.id/|title=Forbes Welcome|website=www.forbes.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}}  Other partnerships included the Said Foundation, Templeton Foundation and Schwarzman Scholars program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-launch-the-schmidt-science-fellows-program-in-partnership-with-the-rhodes-trust-300535304.html|title=Eric And Wendy Schmidt Launch The Schmidt Science Fellows Program In Partnership With The Rhodes Trust|last=Fellows|first=The Schmidt Science|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}} *

Since moving to Oxford, Conn has become a Trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, and an Advisory Board Member of the Oxford Internet Institute.^[17] In January 2014, he became a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University.^[18]

Conn announced his retirement as Warden of Rhodes House for the end of his five year term, in August 2018.^[19]

Conn was married to Beverley Robertson,^[20] they have three children together.

His current partner is Ms. Camilla Borg,^[21] who is a member of the staff of Rhodes House as Director of Special Projects.^[22]

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