Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and Professor of Insurance/Risk Management/Business Economics/Policy, and Director of the Pension Research Council/Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She publishes on public/private pensions, insurance, financial literacy, and household finance. She serves as a NBER Research Associate and Independent Director for the Allspring Fund Trusts. She received the Fidelity Pyramid Prize; two Roger F. Murray Prizes from the Q-Group; and the Premio Internazionale Dell'Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazioni (INA) from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; as well as the Paul Samuelson Award from TIAA. She was named Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association in 2024. Her Economics MA and PhD degrees are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Economics BA with honors from Harvard University.

Distinguished Fellow · American Economic Association