About the Pension Research Council
The Pension Research Council of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is committed to generating debate on key policy issues affecting pensions and other employee benefits.
We sponsor interdisciplinary research on the entire range of private pension and social security programs, as well as related benefit plans in the United States and around the world.
Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, is the Executive Director of the Council.
Advisory Board
Appointed by the Dean of the Wharton School, members of the Pension Research Council Advisory Board are leaders in the employee benefits field and include executives, actuaries, attorneys, representatives of labor, consultants, state and federal policymakers, and academics.- Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director, The Pension Research Council & International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Gary W. Anderson, Independent Consultant
- David S. Blitzstein, Director of Office of Negotiated Benefits, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
- Phyllis C. Borzi, School of Public Health and Health Service, The George Washington University
- Robert L. Clark, College of Management, North Carolina State University
- Julia Coronado, Barclays Capital
- P. Brett Hammond, Chief Investment Strategist, TIAA-CREF
- Beth Hirschhorn, Chief Marketing Officer Retirement and Savings, MetLife
- Emily Kessler, Senior Staff Fellow, Intellectual Capital, Society of Actuaries
- David Laibson, Department of Economics, Harvard University
- Annamaria Lusardi, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
- Jeannine Markoe Raymond, National Association of State Retirement Administrators
- Raimond Maurer, Finance Department, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Judith F. Mazo, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, The Segal Company
- Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Chair in Management Sciences, Boston College Carroll School of Management
- Richard Prosten, Director, Washington Office, Amalgamated Resources
- Anna M. Rappaport, Independent Consultant, Anna Rappaport Consulting
- Kent Smetters, Associate Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Nicholas S. Souleles, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Stephen P. Utkus, Principal, The Vanguard Group
- Jack L. VanDerhei, Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance, Temple University
- Mark Warshawsky, Director of Retirement Research, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
- Stephen P. Zeldes, Benjamin Rosen Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Senior Scholars
- Beth Soldo, Research Associate, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research; Director, Population Aging Research Center, and Distinguished Senior Scholar in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
- Samuel H. Preston, Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
Emeritus
- Christopher M. Bone, Chief Actuary, Aon Consulting
- Dan McGill, Emeritus Professor of Insurance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, School of Management, Yale University
- Martha Priddy Patterson, Consultant
- Jerry S. Rosenbloom, Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Mark Twinney, Consultant
Current Members
Pension Research Council
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