Bio

Teresa Ghilarducci is a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the University. Her new book, underway, The End of Retirement, for 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. Professor Ghilarducci publishes in refereed journals and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress. She served on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Advisory Board from 1995-2002, and on the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund from 1997-2002. She is now a trustee of the General Motors Retiree Health Trust Fund. Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation, and the Retirement Research Foundation.