Marek Góra

     Marek Góra, full professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), chair Department of Economics 1 (macroeconomics, pension economics, labour economics, health economics, economic and social policy; previously, also econometrics and economic forecasting);visiting professor at the College of Europe (social policy and political economy).Author of many professional publications mostly in pension economics and labour economics. Co-founder of the Polish Pension Group SGH. Active in the public sphere. Co-author of the design of the present Polish pension system based on intergenerational equilibrium.

     Research Fellow at IZA;member of Council of Advisors, Population Europe;previously(various periods) research at LSE, Erasmus University, Ifo Munich; 1990-1997 Executive Committee member of EALE; 1992-1993 Visiting Partner at DELSA/OECD;1997-until closing downdirector of the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Social Security Reform (Poland);  consultancies (World Bank, IMF, European Commission, OECD, UNDP).

John A. Turner 

     John A. Turner is Director of the Pension Policy Center. He has published 14 books and more than 100 articles. He received an award for best article of the year in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. He received an award from the Society of Actuaries for a paper on longevity insurance benefits for Social Security. He received a best paper award from the Pension, Benefits and Social Security section of the International Actuarial Association for a coauthored paper on War and Pensions. He received the Department of Labor Special Act Award for work preparing the Secretary of Labor’s Labor Day Report.  He received the inaugural Simplification Award from the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel for the best proposal for simplifying pension law. He received the award for volunteer of the year from the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, an alliance of organizations with more than 100,00 volunteers, for his work training pension regulators in East Africa. Two of his books have been translated into Japanese and three have been required reading for examinations of the Society of Actuaries. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.