The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems
Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Gary Anderson
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.
Gary Anderson is a consultant on public pension issues; previously he served as Executive Director of the Texas Municipal Retirement system which covers municipal employees and retirees for many Texas cities. He is also an Advisory Board member of Wharton's Pension Research Council, and he served with the National Association of State Retirement Administrators and the Government Finance Officers Association. He received the BA in Political Science from Texas A&M University, and the MA in Public Management from the University of Houston-Clear Lake City.
Contributors:
Neveen Ahmed, doctoral candidate in Economics, North Carolina State University,
Beth Almeida, Executive Director, National Institute on Retirement Security,
Gary Anderson, public pension consultant,
Brad M. Barber, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis,
Keith Brainard, research director, National Association of State Retirement Administrators,
Robert L. Clark, Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, North Carolina State University,
Lee A. Craig, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University,
Roderick B. Crane, Director of Institutional Client Services, TIAA-CREF,
Jeremy Gold pension finance consultant,
Michael Heller, Vice President of Actuarial Consulting Services, TIAA-CREF,
Edwin C. Hustead, former Senior Vice President in charge of the Arlington, Virginia Hay Group actuarial practice and all Hay governmental actuarial and benefits consulting,
Toni Hustead, former Chief of the Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Branch, US Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President,
Kelly Kenneally, communications advisor to the National Institute on Retirement Security,
Gordon Latter, head of Pension and Endowment Strategy, Merrill Lynch Global Securities Research and Economics Group,
David Madland, Director of the Work/Life Program, Center for American Progress,
Raimond Maurer, endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance, Finance Department, Goethe University of Frankfurt,
Ken McDonnell, Program Director, American Savings Education Council, Washington, DC,
Stephen T. McElhaney, senior public sector actuary, Mercer,
Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ,
Silvana Pozzebon, Associate Professor, Department of Human Resources Management, HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal),
Ralph Rogalla, Research Associate, Department of Finance, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Junichi Sakamoto, Chief Adviser to the Pension Management Research Group, Nomura Research Institute,
M. Barton Waring, Chief Investment Officer for Investment Strategy and Policy, Barclays Global Investors, Emeritus,
Paul J. Yakoboski, Principal Research Fellow, TIAA-CREF Institute,
Parry Young, independent consultant on pension and other postemployment benefit issues related to US state and local governments.