Deputy Director to Assume Function, Backed by Veteran Analysis Workforce
Alicia H. Munnell, the founding director of the Middle for Retirement Analysis at Boston Faculty (CRR), has introduced that she’s going to step down from her place on December 31, after greater than 20 years of management.
Munnell, who holds the Peter F. Drucker Chair in Administration Sciences within the Carroll College of Administration, is acknowledged as one of many nation’s most influential specialists on retirement earnings coverage. Earlier than coming to Boston Faculty, she served as a member of the President’s Council of Financial Advisers and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Coverage. Beforehand, she spent 20 years on the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Boston, the place she turned senior vp and director of analysis. She’s going to stay with the CRR as a senior advisor.
Deputy Director Andrew Eschtruth, who has been with the group since its inception, will develop into the following CRR director, supported by senior researchers Jean-Pierre Aubry, Anqi Chen, Laura Quinby, and Gal Wettstein.
Established in 1998, the CRR produces first-rate educational analysis and coverage briefs to help decisionmakers in each the private and non-private sectors on the important challenge of retirement safety – a subject of rising significance to an growing older inhabitants. As well as, the Middle trains new students within the area and broadens entry to priceless information sources.
Provost and Dean of Schools David Quigley thanked Munnell for her contributions to the sector of retirement analysis and for constructing a nationally acknowledged analysis middle at Boston Faculty.
“Alicia Munnell is a distinguished economist whose scholarship has had a profound and lasting impact on strengthening the U.S. retirement system and household financial security throughout her career in government service and during her past quarter century here at Boston College,” stated Quigley. “She arrived at Chestnut Hill with a compelling vision for her new center and went on to build the CRR into the nation’s leading research center on retirement policy. Her legacy includes the exceptional team she has created to carry on the CRR’s mission, and her mentoring of a generation of scholars around the world who are refining our understanding of the economics of aging, retirement, and lifelong financial health.”
Munnell praised the College for its assist of the Middle through the previous 20 years.
“The success of the Center can be traced directly to the tremendous backing of Boston College, which has been with us every step of the way. BC, with its commitment to both scholarship and service, is the perfect environment for policy research.”
Importantly, Munnell has positioned the CRR for the longer term by attracting proficient people who’re passionate concerning the Middle’s mission.
Eschtruth brings a wealth of substantive data and organizational expertise from working on the CRR for 25 years, serving to it develop from a small start-up to a nationally acknowledged establishment. He has intensive expertise in managing relationships with funders and the media, in addition to eager insights from his years as a coverage analyst within the federal authorities centered on the challenges posed by an growing older inhabitants.
The members of the senior analysis staff – who, on common, have been with the CRR for greater than a decade – are all distinguished voices of their areas of experience. Aubry leads the CRR’s state and native coverage analysis unit, whereas Chen heads up the CRR’s work on financial savings and family finance. Quinby is the purpose individual for research on worker advantages and labor markets and Wettstein leads efforts on well being, healthcare finance, and insurance coverage points. This group will assume extra tasks in shaping the Middle’s analysis program, increasing improvement actions, and mentoring junior researchers.
“The CRR is in good hands.” stated Munnell. “I’m confident it will continue to thrive for decades to come.”
