Alicia Haydock Munnell

Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management.[1] She also serves as the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.[2] Munnell is a leading authority on retirement income policy, including Social Security, employer-sponsored pensions, and labor force activity among older workers.

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Career

Alicia H. Munnell earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Boston University, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Munnell spent 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1973–1993), where she became senior vice president and director of research in 1984. From 1993-1995, she was the assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. She then became a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1995-1997. Munnell joined the Boston College faculty in 1997 and founded the Center for Retirement Research in 1998.

She has published many articles, authored numerous books, and edited several volumes on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity. Alicia Munnell was co-founder and first president of the National Academy of Social Insurance and is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Medicine, and the Pension Research Council at Wharton.

In 2007, she was awarded the International INA Prize for Insurance Sciences by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. In 2009, she received the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance from the National Academy of Social Insurance.[3]

Boards

Munnell is a member of the board of The Century Foundation,[4] the National Bureau of Economic Research,[5] and the Pension Rights Center.[6]

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