Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research; at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell serves as NBER Research Associate; Independent Director on the Wells Fargo Advantage Fund Trusts Board; Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan; Member of the Executive Board for the Michigan Retirement Research Center; and Senior Scholar of the Centre for Silver Security at the Sim Ki Boon Institute of Singapore Management University. She has published over 200 books and articles, and she works regularly in Latin America, Europe, and Australasia, as well as the US. She received the MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BA in Economics from Harvard University.