James Poterba

President and CEO, NBER

Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAMES POTERBA is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology and the president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit research organization with more than 1800 affiliated economists. His recent research has analyzed the accumulation and draw-down of retirement saving and the economic effects of population aging.  He has served as president of the National Tax Association, vice president of the American Economic Association, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a trustee of the College Retirement Equity Fund.  He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a D. Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall scholar.