Olivia S Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans professor and Chair of insurance and risk management, executive director of the Pension Research Council, and director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research, all at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-director of the Financial Literacy Center. Her main areas of research and teaching are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance and labor markets, and compensation and pensions, both in the United States and internationally. She was a member of Commission to Strengthen Social Security in the George W. Bush Administration. Her many speaking engagements have included the World Economic Forum and the International Monetary Fund, and she has provided testimony to committees of the U.S. Congress, the parliament of the United Kingdom, the Australian Parliament, and the Brazilian Senate. She has a B.A from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.