Teresa Ghilarducci

Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally-recognized expert in retirement security. Teresa holds the Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in economic policy analysis and directs the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) that focuses on economic policy research and outreach. Ghilarducci joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. Ghilarducci received her PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Wurf fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C. that works to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy and as a distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organizatio