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About the AuthorLawrence Thompson is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in pension and retirement issues and serves as a consultant on pension reform to both the International Labor Office and the World Bank. He joined the Urban Institute after a 25-year career as both a policy analyst and social welfare program administrator in the U.S. government. His government career included serving as executive director of an Advisory Council on Social Security, director of Social Security Research and Statistics, and chief economist of the U.S. General Accounting Office. He also served as Assistant Comptroller General of the United States in charge of the review of social welfare programs and as the principal deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the U.S. Social Security Administration. Mr. Thompson is currently the secretary and a member of the board of directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance and has previously been a member of the board of directors of the International Social Security Association. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Iowa State University.
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