Olivia S. Mitchell
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- Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association, 2023 [1]
- FINRA Investor Education Foundation Ketchum Prize, 2019 [2]
- ICA 2018 Best Paper Award, 2017 [3]
- Robert C Witt Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2021 [4] and 2017 [5]
- EBRI Lillywhite Award, 2017 [6]
- Q-Group Roger F. Murray Award, 2016 [7]
- CRAIN Top 100 Innovators, Disruptors, and Change-Makers in Business, 2016 [8]
- Top 10 Women Economists, World Economic Forum, 2015 [9]
- Carolyn Bell Shaw Award, 2007 [10]
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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.[3] 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.[11] She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.[3]
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.[3] She serves as an Independent Director for the Allspring Funds Board of Trustees,[3][12] and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[13] She has served on the advisory board to the Singaporean Central Provident Fund,[3] the executive board of the American Economic Association[3] and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.[3] In 2001 she served on the bipartisan President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.[14] She is co-Principal Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study.[15] In 2002 and again in 2010, she was the Metzler Bank Visiting Professor at Goethe University.[3][16] At Wharton, she is a professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, and Insurance and Risk Management.[17]
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,[18] and Goethe University Frankfurt.[19]
