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Vittorio Corbo Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile
  
 
Roberto Canessa  
Uruguayan survivor of the Andes Mountains plane accident in 1972, talking about “Leadership in times of crisis and/or extreme situations”
   
 
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Governance
World Bank Institute
    
 
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman and Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies
     
 
Cyril de Bournet
Managing Director
Casa Lapostolle Winery
   
 
Soumitra Dutta
Dean of Executive Education
INSEAD
  
 
Eric K. Clemons
Professor
The Wharton School
    
 
George S. Day
Professor
The Wharton School
      
 
Lourdes Casanova
Lecturer at INSEAD
   
 
Gary Burtless
Senior fellow, Economic Studies program, Brookings Institution
   
 
Olivia S. Mitchell
Professor
The Wharton School
   
 
Mauricio González
Gordon
President of Spanish Wine Federation, FEV, CEO of Gonzalez Byass owner of Tio Pepe Shery, Beronia (Rioja) and Altozano wine.
    
 
Anthony Hamilton-Russell
Propietor of Hamilton Russell Vineyards, South Africa
  
 
Robert Mangels
Chairman
Mangels Industrial
   
 
Andrés Navarro
Presidente
Sonda   
  
 
Joseph Msays
 General Manager, IGS Public Sector for Asia Pacific
  
 
Bruce Catania
Managing Director, Head of Citigroup Venture Capital International - Latin America
  
 
José Piñera
Former Minister of Labor and Social Security
  
 
Hernán Büchi
Former Finance Minister
Counselor for Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo
   
 
Joseph Harari
Director Credicorp Bank and Compañía Internacional de Seguros
   
 
J. Antonio Baltodano
Chairman and Chief Executive Officier, Mercon Coffe Corporation
   
 
Laird Pendleton
Founder, Cairnwood Cooperative Corporation and Chairman, Wharton Global Family Alliance Advisory Board
   
 
Raffi Amit
Professor Wharton School
   
 
Julio de Quesada
Managing Director Banamex
   
 
Carlos Franz
Chilean novelist
   
 
Jaime Chico Pardo
General Director Telmex
   
 
Luis Rivera Novo Chief Executive Officer Endesa Internacional S.A.
   
 
Shiv Khemka
Director SUN Group
   
 
Ricardo Zabala
Board Member AFP Habitat
   
 
Francisco Tomic
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President for Human Development, Codelco, Chile
   
 
Oscar Von Hauske
Director, Telmex, México
   
 
Martin Mayer-Wolf
Managing Director, Nidera S.A.
   
   
 
SPEAKERS
 

Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business and Public Policy Executive Director, Pension Research Council; Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978; MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976; BA, Harvard University,1974     
  

Research Areas
Economics of public and private pensions; international private and social insurance; employee benefits and compensation; risk and crisis management; health and retirement analysis and policy; labor economic and public finance

Recent Consulting
Asian Development Bank; Carribean Development Bank; Economic and Social Research Institute, Japanese Government; Interamerican Development Bank; U.S. Department of Labor; U.S. Social Security Administration; U.S. Government Accounting Office; U.S. Treasury; World Bank

Current Projects
The economics of annuities; global social security and pension reform; retirement, wealth and health; public and private pensions, health insurance.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1993-present (named International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, 1993; Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research, 2003-present; Executive Director, Pension Research Council, 1993-present). Previous appointments: Cornell University; Harvard University. Visiting appointment: University of New South Wales, Australia; Goethe Universitat of Frankfurt

Other Positions
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
International INA Prize for Insurance Sciences; TIAA-CREF/Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security; MRRC research awards on retirement economics; NIA/Michigan awards on data linkages; World Bank research awards on old-age provision in developing countries; U.S. Department of Labor conference and research awards; PARC award on Social Security and Saving; Wharton Financial Institutions Center awards; Boettner Center for Financial Gerontology Research awards; Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1997

Professional Leadership 2001-2005
Co-PI for Health and Retirement Study; Executive Committee, Michigan Retirement Research Center; Advisory Committee, Centre for Pensions and Superannuation, University of New South Wales; Board of Editors, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance; Board of Editors, Journal of Pensions Management; Board of Editors, Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Senior Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute; Board Member, Penn Aging Research Center

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2001-2005
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security; Comptroller General's Advisory Board, General Accounting Office; Advisory Board on Social Security Modeling, Congressional Budget Office

Representative Publications

Innovations in Financing Retirement Z. Bodie, B. Hammond, and O.S. Mitchell, eds., Pension Research Council. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

(with J. Brown, J. Poterba, and M. Warshawsky)
The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement MIT Press, 2001.

(with E. Hustead)
Pensions for the Public Sector Pension Research Council. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

(with D. McCarthy)
"Estimating International Adverse Selection in Annuities." North American Actuarial Journal (October 2002).

(with M-E. Lachance and K. Smetters)
"Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions:The Option to Buy Back a Defined Benefit Promise." Journal of Risk and Insurance (2003).

"Building an Environment for Pension Reform in Developing Countries." Foundations of Pension Finance. Z. Bodie and E. P. Davis, eds. London: Edward Elgar, 2000.

(with J. Poterba, M. Warshawsdy and J. Brown)
"New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities." American Economic Review (December 1999).

(with J. Geanakoplos and S. Zeldes)
"Social Security Money's Worth." Prospects for Social Security Reform. O.S. Mitchell, R. Myers, and H. Young, eds., Pension Research Council. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.