FORA.tv Speaker - Teresa Ghilarducci

After spending 25 years at the University of Notre Dame as a professor of economics and 10 years as director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the University, Teresa Ghilarducci is now the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. Ghilarducci's new book, When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, published in May 2008 by Princeton University Press, investigates the effect of pension losses on older Americans. Her book Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, MIT Press, won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992. She co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. Ghilarducci publishes in referred journals and testifies frequently before the US Congress. She is the WURF fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and serves as a public trustee for the Health Care VEBAs for UAW Retirees of General Motors and for the USW retirees for Goodyear, and she served on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Advisory Board from 1996-2001. Ghilarduccis was also on the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund from 1996-2002. Her research has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, US Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation, and the Retirement Research Foundation.