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Teresa Ghilarducci
Labor Economist / New School for Social Research
Last year’s rank: 39
A longtime advocate of adequate retirement benefits for American workers, author and economics professor Teresa Ghilarducci serves on committees and study groups hoping to solve the U.S. retirement-income-security crisis. For example, she’s a member of the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings, which is looking to improve Social Security, defined benefit pensions and defined contribution plans. “We’re on the road to what everyone expects has to happen,” says the ever-upbeat Ghilarducci, 58, who taught at the University of Notre Dame for 25 years before moving to New York’s New School for Social Research, where she heads the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. She argues for the creation of a system “with adequate accumulation, investment and payout structure. It’s not rocket science. It’s the elements of very good pension design.” Ghilarducci finds she can present her ideas about pension design in an ever-growing number of forums. Currently Ghilarducci is an unpaid adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign and a longtime member of the Government Accountability Office’s retirement policy advisory panel. In February she was tapped by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer to serve with five other academics to help design a retirement plan for full-time workers without access to workplace plans.
The 2015 Pension 40
1. Bruce Rauner 2. John & Laura Arnold 3. Chris Christie 4. Randi Weingarten 5. Phyllis Borzi |
6. Kevin de León 7. Alejandro García Padilla 8. Laurence Fink 9. Rahm Emanuel 10. Sean McGarvey |
11. John Kline 12. J. Mark Iwry 13. Damon Silvers 14. Jeffrey Immelt 15. Joshua Gotbaum |
16. Robin Diamonte 17. Mark Mullet 18. Terry O’Sullivan 19. Raymond Dalio 20. Ted Wheeler |
21. Thomas Nyhan 22. Karen Ferguson & Karen Friedman 23. Randy DeFrehn 24. Robert O’Keef 25. Caitlin Long |
26. Kenneth Feinberg 27. Orrin Hatch 28. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend 29. Ian Lanoff 30. Joshua Rauh |
31. Ted Eliopoulos 32. Edward (Ted) Siedle 33. Teresa Ghilarducci 34. Denise Nappier 35. W. Thomas Reeder Jr. |
36. Hank Kim 37. Paul Singer 38. Bailey Childers 39. Amy Kessler 40. Judy Mares |
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