Featured Researcher: Alicia H. Munnell

Alicia H. Munnell, a newly elected Director at Large of the NBER, is the Peter F. Drucker Professor in Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Munnell earned her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University. Most of her professional career was spent at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she became Senior Vice President and Director of Research in 1984. She left the Boston Fed in 1993 to become Assistant Secretary of the U.S.Treasury for Economic Policy; she then moved to the President's Council of Economic Advisers where she was a Member from 1995-7. Munnell's teaching and research interests include tax policy, social security, and public and private pensions.

She was a co-founder and the first President of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has also served on numerous advisory boards and panels, and is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Pension Research Council at Wharton.