Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell (born 1953) is an American economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security.[8] She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.[1]

Olivia S. Mitchell
CitizenshipUnited States
AwardsICA 2018 Best Paper Award, 2017 [1]
Robert C Witt Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2017 [2]
EBRI Lillywhiate Award, 2017 [3]
Q-Group Roger F. Murray Award, 2016 [4]
CRAIN Top 100 Innovators, Disruptors, and Change-Makers in Business, 2016 [5]
Top 10 Women Economists, World Economic Forum, 2015 [6]
Carolyn Bell Shaw Award, 2007 [7]
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsCornell University
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Career

Mitchell joined The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, having served from 1978 to 1993 as a professor at Cornell University; she also visited Harvard, Goethe University, Singapore Management University, and the University of New South Wales.[1] She serves as an Independent Director for the Wells Fargo Funds Board of Trustees,[1][9] and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[10] She has served on the Advisory Board to the Singaporean Central Provident Fund,[1] the Executive Board of the American Economic Association[1] and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.[1] In 2001 she served on the bipartisan President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.[11] She has worked as a co-Principal Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study for two decades,[12] and she is a co-investigator for AHEAD/Health and Retirement Studies at the University of Michigan's Retirement Research Center.[13] In 2002 and again in 2010, she was the Metzler Bank Visiting Professor at Goethe University.[1][14]

Education

Mitchell earned her BA in Economics with honors from Harvard University and her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She also received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of St. Gallen,[15] and Goethe University Frankfurt.[16]

Works

Mitchell has published widely on pensions, social security reform, retirement security, and financial literacy. Her work is highly regarded: in 2018, her paper was awarded the Best Paper Award on Behavioral Aspects of Insurance Mathematics,[1] and in 2017 she was granted the Robert C Witt Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance;[17] she also received the EBRI Lillywhite Award the same year.[18] In 2008 and again in 2017 she was awarded the Roger F. Murray Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance.[1] In 2016 she was selected as a CRAIN "Top 100 Innovators, Disruptors, and Change-Makers in Business",[5] while in 2011 she was named one of the “25 Most Influential People”[19] and “50 Top Women in Wealth”[20] by Investment Advisor Magazine; in 2010 she received the Retirement Income Industry Association Award for Achievement in Applied Retirement Research.[21] In 2008 Mitchell received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession,[22] and in 2007 she received the Fidelity Pyramid Research Institute Prize for her co-authored study on financial literacy.[23] In 2003 she received the Premio Internazionale dell'Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, awarded at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, Italy,[1] and in 1999 her co-authored work received the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security from TIAA-CREF.[1]

Selected recent academic articles

Selected books

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae: Olivia S. Mitchell". June 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. "Journal of Risk and Insurance: 2017 Robert C. Witt Award".
  3. "Olivia Mitchell Named 2016 EBRI Lillywhite Award Winner" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  4. "2016 Roger F. Murray Prize Winners". Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  5. "Olivia Mitchell: CRAIN 100".
  6. "Top 10 women in economics".
  7. "OLIVIA S. MITCHELL NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE 2007 CAROLYN SHAW BELL AWARD".
  8. "The Pension Research Council".
  9. "People: Wells Fargo Advantage Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (EOD): People".
  10. "Olivia S. Mitchell".
  11. "Members of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security".
  12. "HRS Online: Olivia S. Mitchell".
  13. "Olivia S. Mitchell".
  14. "Visiting Professors". Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  15. "University of St. Gallen: Honorary Doctor".
  16. "Goethe University Frankfurt: Honorary Doctor".
  17. "2017 ARIA Award Winners" (PDF).
  18. "Olivia Mitchell Named 2016 EBRI Lillywhite Award Winner" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  19. Sullivan, John. "Olivia Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans: Extended 2011 IA 25 Profile." AdvisorOne April 2011. 17 April 2012 .
  20. Satter, Marlene Y. “Olivia Mitchell: Helping Women Improve Their Financial Literacy—Top Women Extended Profile.” AdvisorOne. July 2011. 17 April 2012.
  21. Francis, Willette. “Olivia Mitchell to Get RIIA Award at Annual Meeting.” AdvisorOne. September 2010. 17 April 2012.
  22. "OLIVIA S. MITCHELL NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE 2007 CAROLYN SHAW BELL AWARD".
  23. "Honors & Other Things". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 54 (18). 2008-01-22. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
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