Deputy Director to Assume Position, 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 twenty 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 consultants 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 vice chairman 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 subsequent CRR director, supported by senior researchers Jean-Pierre Aubry, Anqi Chen, Laura Quinby, and Gal Wettstein.
Established in 1998, the CRR produces first-rate tutorial analysis and coverage briefs to help decisionmakers in each the private and non-private sectors on the vital concern of retirement safety – a subject of rising significance to an getting older inhabitants. As well as, the Middle trains new students within the subject and broadens entry to priceless knowledge 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 heart at Boston Faculty.
“Alicia Munnell is a distinguished economist whose scholarship has had a profound and lasting impression on strengthening the U.S. retirement system and family monetary safety all through her profession in authorities service and through her previous quarter century right here at Boston Faculty,” stated Quigley. “She arrived at Chestnut Hill with a compelling imaginative and prescient for her new heart and went on to construct the CRR into the nation’s main analysis heart on retirement coverage. Her legacy contains the distinctive crew she has created to hold on the CRR’s mission, and her mentoring of a era of students around the globe who’re refining our understanding of the economics of getting older, retirement, and lifelong monetary well being.”
Munnell praised the College for its help of the Middle through the previous twenty years.
“The success of the Middle may be traced on to the super backing of Boston Faculty, which has been with us each step of the way in which. BC, with its dedication to each scholarship and repair, is the proper surroundings for coverage analysis.”
Importantly, Munnell has positioned the CRR for the longer term by attracting gifted 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 in depth 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 getting older inhabitants.
The members of the senior analysis crew – who, on common, have been with the CRR for greater than a decade – are all outstanding 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 duties in shaping the Middle’s analysis program, increasing improvement actions, and mentoring junior researchers.
“The CRR is in good fingers.” stated Munnell. “I’m assured it would proceed to thrive for many years to come back.”