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Henry J. Aaron
Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution
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Henry Aaron served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1977 and 1978. He chaired the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and former Vice President of the American Economic Association. He is coauthor with Robert Reischauer of the forthcoming Century Foundation book Strengthening Medicare for the 21st Century.
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Greg Anrig
Vice President, Programs,
The Century Foundation
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Greg Anrig has been vice president of programs at The Century Foundation since 1994. He has written and made media appearances about social insurance, taxes, pensions, and the economy. Before joining the foundation, he was a staff writer and Washington correspondent for Money magazine.
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Dean Baker
Co-Director,
Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Dean Baker is currently Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Formerly he was Senior Research Fellow at the Preamble Center in Washington, D.C. and The Century Foundation in New York; previous to that he was a Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, American Prospect , and Challenge, among many other publications. He has also appeared on PBS` Lehrer Newshour, Fox News, NPR, Counterspin, and numerous other television and radio programs.
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Robert Ball
Former Commissioner,
Social Security Administration
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Robert M. Ball was commissioner of Social Security from 1962 to 1973, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He was a member of the 1982-83 National Commission on Social Security Reform (the Greenspan Commission), a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, and senior scholar at the Institute for Medicine. He was a member of the 1989-91 and 1994-96 Advisory Councils on Social Security and has served on many other advisory groups. A founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, he chaired its board of directors from 1986 to 1996.
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Edward Berkowitz
Professor of History,
George Washington University
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Edward Berkowitz specializes in American social welfare history. Berkowitz has worked as a senior staff member on the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, as a policy analyst at the Department of Health Education and Welfare, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health Care Finance at Johns Hopkins. He has consulted on various aspects of social welfare policy with such organizations as the Milbank Memorial Fund, The Century Foundation, the Committee on Economic Development, the Hastings Center, and the Health Insurance Association of America.
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Peter Diamond
Institute Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Peter Diamond is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been president and chair of the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
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Jason Furman
Non-resident Senior Fellow ,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Furman is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , specializing in social security issues. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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William Gale
Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
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William Gale is a former assistant professor in the economics department at UCLA and former senior staff economist on the President`s Council of Economic Advisors. He has also served as a consultant to the General Accounting Office and the World Bank. He has published in a wide variety of popular media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
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Teresa Ghilarducci
Associate Professor of Economics ,
University of Notre Dame
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Ghilarducci is a member of the American Economics Association and the Industrial Relations Research Association. She has received many awards and honors, including the Industrial Relations Research Association Dissertation Roundtable Award and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute Fellowship. She is the author of Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions and coauthor of Portable Pensions for Casual Labor Markets. She has been a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance since 1994.
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Robert Greenstein
Executive Director ,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Greenstein is considered an expert on the federal budget and in particular, the impact of tax and budget proposals on low-income people. Greenstein has written numerous reports, analyses, op-ed pieces, and magazine articles on poverty-related issues. He appears on national television news and public affairs programs and is frequently asked to testify on Capitol Hill. In 1996, Greenstein was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1994, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.
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Heidi Hartmann
Director and President,
Institute for Women's Policy Research
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Heidi Hartmann is the Director of the Institute
for Women's Policy Research, a research organization on policy issues of importance
to women which she founded in 1987. Prior to founding IWPR, she was Director of
the Women`s Studies Program at Rutgers University, a member of the graduate faculty
at the New School for Social Research, and a staff member at the National Research
Council/National Academy of Sciences. In 1994, Dr. Hartmann was the recipient
of a MacArthur Fellowship Award for her work in the field of women and economics.
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Richard C. Leone
President,
The Century Foundation
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Richard C. Leone is President of the Century Foundation, formerly the Twentieth Century Fund, a public policy research foundation. His analytical and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation. Mr. Leone was formerly chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and State Treasurer of New Jersey. He also was President of the New York Mercantile Exchange and a managing director at Dillon Read and Co., an investment banking firm. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
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Alicia H. Munnell
Peter F. Drucker Chair in Management Sciences,
Boston College Carroll School of Management
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Alicia Munnell served as a Member of the President`s Council of Economic Advisers prior to her position at Boston College. Prior to joining the Council, she served for nearly three years as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Dr. Munnell spent most of her professional career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she wrote extensively on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity.
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Peter Orszag
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution
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Peter R. Orszag is the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution and a Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers, during the Clinton Administration. His current areas of research include fiscal and tax policy, Social Security, pensions, higher education, and homeland security.
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Robert D. Reischauer
President,
Urban Institute
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Robert Reischauer held positions as the Congressional Budget Office and senior vice president at the Urban Institute. He is a member of the Harvard Corporation and serves on the boards of several educational and nonprofit organizations. He is Vice Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He frequently contributes to the opinion pages of the nation's major newspapers, comments on public policy developments on radio and television, and testifies before congressional committees.
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Max Sawicky
Economist,
Economic Policy Institute
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Max B. Sawicky is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. He has worked in the Office of State and Local Finance of the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. He also serves on the at-large national board of the Americans for Democratic Action.
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James H. Schulz
Professor of Economics,
Florence Heller School, Brandeis University
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Dr. Schulz is a national authority on the “economics of aging,” pensions, and retirement policy–both in the United States and other countries. He is a past President of the Gerontological Society of America, a founding fellow of the National Acadmy of Social Insurance, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the AARP/Scudder-Kemper mutual funds. He is a member of the National Commission on Social Security and has lectured widely throughout the United States.
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Robert Y. Shapiro
Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University
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Robert Shapiro is an expert on public opinions about various policy issues, including Social Security. He is on the Board of Directors for the Roper Center and on the editorial board for Political Science Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago).
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David Smith
Senior Fellow, Business and Society,
Demos
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Prior to joining Demos, David was the Director of the Public Policy Department at the AFL-CIO in Washington. He has also served as Commissioner of Business Development and Senior Deputy Budget Director for the City of New York, as an aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and as a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress.
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William E. Spriggs
Senior Fellow,
Economic Policy Institute
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William E. Spriggs joined EPI in November 2004 as a Senior Research Fellow. He is the former Executive Director of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, and has also held roles in the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the National Commission for Employment Policy in the Clinton Administration. His work includes studies of labor relations and labor market regulations as well as the minimum wage and international labor standards published in both academic and popular journals. Dr. Spriggs is a frequent guest on various television and radio news programs.
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Lawrence H. Thompson
Senior Fellow,
The Urban Institute
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Larry Thompson has served in several capacities in the U.S. Social Security Administration including Director of Research and Statistics, Principal Deputy Commissioner, and Acting Commissioner (in 1993). Dr. Thompson has also served in leadership positions in the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. General Accounting Office, the National Institute of Education and the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
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Bernard Wasow
Senior Fellow,
The Century Foundation
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Bernard Wasow received his BA from Reed College and his PhD in economics from Stanford University. He has been a member of the Economics Departments at the University of British Columbia, the University of Nairobi (five years), New York University (20 years, tenured) and, as a visitor, at Columbia University, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and the Central European University (Prague, Czechoslovakia). He also has worked in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation.
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Mark Weisbrot
Co-director,
Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Mark Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, with specialization in international economics and political economy. He writes a weekly column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and most other U.S. newspapers.
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Christian Weller
Senior Economist,
Center for American Progress
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Dr. Christian Weller is a Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress, where he specializes in Social Security and retirement income, macroeconomics, the Federal Reserve, and international finance. Prior to joining American Progress, he was on the research staff at the Economic Policy Institute, where he remains a research associate. Dr. Weller has also worked at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany, in the Department of Public Policy of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., and in universal banking in Germany, Belgium and Poland.
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Joseph White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy,
Case Western Reserve University
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Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Joseph White was Associate Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. Previously he was a Research Associate and then Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C..
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Edward Wolff
Professor of Economics,
New York University
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Ed Wolff is managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth and a senior scholar at the Levy Institute of Economics at Bard College. His principle research areas are productivity growth and the distribution of income and wealth.
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