Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor Professor of Insurance & Risk Mgmt. and Business Economics & Public Policy Executive Director, Pension Research Council Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research,
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; all at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell serves as a Research Associate at the NBER; Independent Director on the Wells Fargo Fund Boards; Vice President of the American Economic Association; Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan; Executive Board Member for the Michigan Retirement Research Center; and Senior Scholar at the Singapore Management University. She also serves on the Academic Advisory Council for the Consumer Finance Institute at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve; the Advisory Committee of the HEC Montreal Retirement and Savings Institute; and the UNSW Centre for Pensions and Superannuation. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.