Reimagining Pensions
The Next 40 Years
Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Richard C. Shea
Author Information
Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; Executive Director, Pension Research Council, Wharton School,Richard C. Shea, Partner, Covington & Burling, LLP
Olivia S. Mitchell is International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance/Risk Management, Professor of Business Economics/Public Policy, Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, and Director of the Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research at the Wharton School. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research and teaching are pensions, insurance and risk management, public finance, and labor markets, with an international focus. She received her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard C. Shea is chair of Covington & Burling LLP's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice, where he is widely regarded as a leading authority on cash balance, pension equity, and other complex benefit plan designs. Previously, he served as Associate Benefits Tax Counsel at the Treasury Department, where, together with his colleagues at the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, he was responsible for developing federal tax legislation and regulations governing employee benefits and executive compensation. He received his AB from Amherst College and his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Contributors:
David Blitzstein, Blitzstein Consultancy
A. Lans Bovenberg, Professor of Economics at Tilburg University
Monika Bütler, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen
Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales
Julia Coronado, Chief Economist for Graham Capital Management
Don Fuerst, American Academy of Actuaries' Senior Pension Fellow
Jonathan P. Goldberg, Project Attorney, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice group of Covington & Burling LLP
Benjamin Goodman, Director and Actuary at TIAA-CREF
Benjamin H. Harris, Policy Director of The Hamilton Project
Benedict S. K. Koh, Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University
Roel Mehlkopf, postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University
Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Boston College
Robert S. Newman, partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice of Covington & Burling LLP
Theo E. Nijman, Professor on Econometrics and Finance at Tilburg University
Pamela Perun, psychologist and a lawyer
Andrew Peterson, Staff Fellow for Retirement Systems at the Society of Actuaries
John Piggott Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), University of New South Wales
Anna Rappaport, actuary, consultant, author, and speaker,
David P. Richardson, Senior Economist at the TIAA-CREF Institute
Matthew S. Rutledge, research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Richard C. Shea, chair of Covington & Burling LLP's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice
Eugene C. Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute
Jack VanDerhei, Research Director of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
John Vine, senior member and former head of the Employee Benefits Group at Covington & Burling LLP
Anthony Webb, Senior Research Economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
