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
- Robert L. Clark, Professor, College of Management, North Carolina State University
- Julia Coronado, Senior U.S. Economist, BNP Paribas
- Peter A. Fisher, Manging Director, Pyramis Global Advisors
- 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, Robert I. Goldman Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
- Annamaria Lusardi, The Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt 1972 Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
- Jeannine Markoe Raymond, National Association of State Retirement Administrators
- Raimond Maurer, Professor, House of Finance, 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, Michael L. Tarnopol Professor, Finance Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Stephen P. Utkus, Principal, The Vanguard Group
- Jack L. VanDerhei, Associate Professor of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management, Fox School of Business, 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
- Phyllis C. Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, US Department of Labor
- 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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