Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor in Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Previously, Prof. Munnell was a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1995-1997) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1993-1995). She spent most of her professional career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she became Senior Vice President and Director of Research in 1984. She has published many articles, authored numerous books, and edited several volumes on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity.

Dr. 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, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Pension Research Council at Wharton. She is a member of the Board of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, The Century Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Pension Rights Center.

Dr. Munnell earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Boston University, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Her publications have included:

Sass, Steven and Alicia H. Munnell. 2006 forthcoming. Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Clark, Gordon and Alicia H. Munnell. 2006 forthcoming. Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income. Oxford, England. Oxford University Press.

Munnell, Alicia H. and Sundén, Annika. 2004. Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans. Washington, DC: The Brookings Press.

Munnell, Alicia H. and Sundén, Annika, eds. 2003. Death and Dollars: The Role of Gifts and Bequests in America.Washington, DC: The Brookings Press.

Halperin, Daniel and Alicia H. Munnell. 2000. "How Should the Private Pension System be Reformed?," The Future of the Private Pension System. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Sundén, Annika and Alicia H. Munnell. 1999. "Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Plans," The Next Challenge: Pensions in the Public Sector. Philadelphia, PA: The Pension Research Council and University of Pennsylvania Press.

R. Douglas Arnold, Michael Graetz and Alicia H. Munnell, eds. 1998. Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics and Economics. Washington, DC: The Brookings Press.

Munnell, Alicia and Zvi Bodie, eds. 1992. Pensions and the Economy: Sources, Uses, and Limitations of Data. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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