Reorienting Retirement Risk Management
Edited by Robert L. Clark and Olivia S. Mitchell
Author Information
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, the Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, and the Director of the Boettner Center on 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 AHEAD/Health and Retirement Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Mitchell's main areas of research and teaching are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance and labor markets, and compensation and pensions, with a US and an international focus. She received the B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert L. Clark is Professor of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University. His research interests include retirement decisions, the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans, the impact of pension conversions to defined contribution and cash balance plans, the role of information and communications on 401(k) contributions, government regulation of pensions, and Social Security. Professor Clark serves on the Advisory Board of Wharton's Pension Research Council, is a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the TIAA-CREF Institute, and a member of the American Economic Association, the Gerontological Society of America, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Professor Clark earned an MA and the Ph.D. from Duke University and a BA from Millsaps College.
Contributors:
Steven G. Allen, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research, the College of Management at NC State University
John Ameriks, Vanguard Principal and Head of Vanguard's Investment Counseling and Research Group
Igor Balevich, Director in the Pension Solutions Group, Barclays Capital
Aaron Bernstein, Senior Research Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Robert L. Clark, Professor of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
Craig Copeland, Senior Research Associate, the Employee Benefit Research Institute
Joelle H.Y. Fong, doctoral candidate in the Department of Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Sterling Gunn, CPP Investment Board
P. Brett Hammond, Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist, TIAA-CREF Asset Management
Michael Hess, Project Manager in the Investment Counseling and Research department , Vanguard Group
R. Hall Kesmodel, Jr., Senior Manager at Ernst and Young, LLP
Benedict S. K. Koh, Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the MSc in Applied Finance, the Singapore Management University
Tracy Livingstone, Senior Advisor at the Investment Risk Management Group, the Canada Pension Plan
Raimond Maurer, Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance, Finance Department, Goethe University of Frankfurt
Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Melinda S. Morrill, Research Assistant Professor, the Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
Lynn Pettus, Director for the Employee Financial Services practice, Ernst and Young, LLP
Anna M. Rappaport, actuary, consultant, author, and speaker, Anna Rappaport Consulting
Liqian Ren, Investment Analyst in the Investment Counseling and Research department,Vanguard Group
David P. Richardson, Principal Research Fellow, the TIAA-CREF Institute
Ralph Rogalla, Assistant Professor for Investments, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance, the Goethe University of Frankfurt
Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel, the AFL-CIO
John A. Turner, social security and pension policy consultant
Jack VanDerhei, Research Director, the Employee Benefit Research Institute
