Member Spotlight

2019

Fay Lomax Cook Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Author, Professor, Gerontology Expert	Michael Duff Labor Lawyer, Professor, Workers’ Compensation Data Panel Member	Marc Goldwein Economist and Fiscal Policy Analyst
Anne Schwartz Executive Director, Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission	Cori Uccello Senior Health Fellow, American Academy of Actuaries	Robert (Bob) Berenson, M.D. Health Care Policy Analyst
Paul N. Van de Water Policy Analyst, Senior Fellow, and Founding Member	Merrill Friedman Senior Director, Disability Policy Engagement, Anthem, Inc.	Ellen Bravo Author and Activist
Mayana Bonapart Associate Member and Policy Analyst, Social Security Advisory Board	Martha Coven Non-profit Consultant, Visiting Professor at Princeton

2018

Josie Kalipeni Policy Analyst and Advocate	Stephen Wandner Labor Economist, Author, and Senior Fellow	Stephanie Kelton Leading Economist, Professor, and Commentator
Ken Buffin Actuary and Social Security Expert	Joseph Quinn Professor of Economics, Founding Member

2017

Marc Cohen Co-Chair of New Caregiving Study Panel and Gerontologist	Heidi Hartmann Co-Chair of New Caregiving Study Panel, IWPR President, and Research Professor	Harry Conaway Academy Board Member and Retirement and Employee Benefit Expert
Indivar Dutta-Gupta New Board Member, Truman Scholar, and Inequality Expert	Jason Fichtner New Board Member, Researcher, and Adjunct Professor	Debra Lipson Health Policy Researcher, Analyst, and Author
Anne Schwartz Executive Director, MACPAC, and Panelist, June 22nd Medicaid Forum	Lynda Flowers Senior Health Policy Advisor, AARP, and Panelist, June 22 Medicaid Forum	Henry J. Aaron 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Member of the Academy, Distinguished Policy Analyst and Social Insurance Scholar
Lawrence H. Thompson 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Public Servant	Nancy J. Altman 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Prominent Social Security Historian and Advocate	Merton Bernstein 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Renowned Law Professor
Eric R. Kingson 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Social Security Advocate and Scholar	Theodore R. Marmor Political Scientist and Professor Emeritus, Yale University School of Management and Department of Political Science, and Faculty Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies	Alicia H. Munnell 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Prominent Economist
Howard Young 30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, and Actuarial Expert	Ai-jen Poo New Member and Keynote Speaker at the 29th annual policy conference reception	Henry Claypool Panelist, "Caregiving and Social Insurance: Paid Family Leave and Long-Term Services," 29th Annual Policy Research Conference

2016

Pamela Doty Long Term Services and Supports Researcher and Senior Policy Analyst	Lynn M. Etheredge Health Care Innovator, Founding Academy Member, and Advisor to the Academy’s Study Panel on Strengthening Medicaid as a Critical Lever in Building a Culture of Health	Renée M. Landers Vice Chair of the Academy’s Board of Directors
William Spriggs William Spriggs: Recipient of the 2016 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Contributions in Social Insurance	Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Incoming Assistant Professor, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and New Member, Board of Directors	Rebecca Vallas Managing Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress
Ngina Chiteji Economics Professor Committed to Educating Youth on Social Policy	Trish Riley Co-chair of a new Academy Study Panel on the Role of Medicaid in Building a Culture of Health

2015

Sara Rosenbaum Co-chair of a new Academy Study Panel on the Role of Medicaid in Building a Culture of Health	Christopher O'Leary Senior Economist at the W.E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research	David C. Colby 2016 Conference Co-Chair
Maya MacGuineas 2016 Conference Co-Chair	Ali A. Zaker-Shahrak Actuarial Health Insurance Expert	Karen Davis Recipient of the 2015 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
Kilolo Kijakazi 2016 Conference Co-Chair

2014

Carroll L. Estes Policy Advocate and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco	Susan Dentzer 2015 Conference Co-Chair	Karen Davis 2015 Conference Co-Chair
Sachin Jain 2015 Conference Co-Chair	Stacy Sanders Master Collaborator and Medicare Advocate	Peter Edelman Speaker, 2014 Member Luncheon
Gail Wilensky Speaker, "Medicare and Medicaid: The Next 50 Years"	Marilyn Moon Recipient of the 2014 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance	Carolyn W. Colvin Keynote Speaker, 2014 Conference

2013

Lori Hansen 2014 Conference Co-Chair	Andrea Louise Campbell 2014 Conference Co-Chair	Jake Jones 2014 Conference Co-Chair
Anne Montgomery Senior Policy Analyst, Altarum Institute and Visiting Scholar, the Academy	Joshua M. Wiener Dubbed “The Dean of Long-Term Care”	Joanne Lynn, M.D. Geriatrician, Hospice Physician, Health Services Research, and Policy Advocate
Alice M. Rivlin Recipient of the 2013 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance	Fernando Torres-Gil 2013 Conference Co-Chair	Eugene Steuerle 2013 Conference Co-Chair
Janet L. Shikles 2013 Conference Co-Chair

2012

Donna Butts Executive Director, Generations United	G. Lawrence Atkins Meet the Academy's New President	Reginald D. Williams, II Director at Avalere Health and Academy member since 2011
Debra Whitman Executive Vice President, Policy for the AARP	Robert D. Reischauer 2012 Recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance	Elaine Fultz 2012 Conference Speaker

2011

Brian Smedley 2012 Conference Speaker	Margaret C Simms 2012 Conference Co-Chair	James Roosevelt, Jr. 2012 Conference Co-Chair
Wayne Vroman Unemployment Insurance Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance	Sheila Burke Health Policy Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance	Virginia Reno Social Security Distinguished Honoree - the Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
James N. Ellenberger Workers’ Compensation Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance	Marty Ford Disability Policy Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance	Lawrence R. Jacobs Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference
Avis Jones-DeWeever Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference

2010

Peter A. Diamond Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Founding Academy Member, Institute Professor (MIT)	Jane L. Ross Director, Academy Board of Directors	G. William (Bill) Hoagland Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference, Vice President of Public Policy, CIGNA
Stephen McConnell 2010 Robert M. Ball Award Event Committee Co-Chair	Patricia (Tricia) Neuman 2010 Robert M. Ball Award Event Committee Co-Chair	John C. Rother 2010 Recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance

2020

Stephen Zuckerman

Health Care Policy Analyst

2009

William Arnone Co-Chair of the Academy's 22nd Annual Conference	Harriet Komisar 2010 Conference Co-Chair	William Rodgers, III 2010 Conference Co-Chair
Alicia H. Munnell The 2009 receipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance	Jacob S. Hacker Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 21st Annual Conference	John J. Sweeney Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 21st Annual Conference

2008

Howard Fluhr

Co-Chair of the Academy's 21st Annual Conference

Robert Greenstein

Co-Chair of the Academy's 21st Annual Conference

Peter A Diamond

Recipient of the 2008 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance

2007

Drew Altman Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 20th Annual Conference	Uwe Reinhardt Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 20th Annual Conference	Jonathan Gruber 2008 Conference Co-Chair
Marsha Lillie-Blanton 2008 Conference Co-Chair	Christopher O'Flinn 2008 Conference Co-Chair	Charles Betsey Charles Betsey is a new member of the Academy's Membership Committee.
Jill Quadagno Jill Quadagno is a new member of the Academy's Board of Directors and one of the newest members of the Membership Committee.	Henry J. Aaron Recipient of the 2007 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance	Laurel Beedon Laurel E. Beedon is a Senior Fellow at the Academy, where she oversees the Academy's internship program and advises on disability policy issues.
Kimberly Morgan Kimberly Morgan, a newly elected member of the Academy, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.	William M Rodgers, III William M. Rodgers III, a newly elected Academy member, is a professor and Chief Economist for Rutgers University and brings to the academy years of experience in the field of socioeconomic research.

2006

Robert A Berenson, M.D. Robert A. Berenson, M.D., is co-chair of the NASI and NAPA study collaboration, Management Analysis of Approaches for Improving Access to Health Care	Regina T Jefferson Regina T. Jefferson, Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, is co-chair (with Jacob Hacker and Maya Rockeymoore) of NASI's 19th Annual Conference: “In Search of the Common Good: What Role for Social Insurance?”	Ed Welch Ed Welch is the director of the Workers' Compensation Center in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University.
Monroe Berkowitz The 2006 Robert M. Ball Award Winner	Terry T Nixon Member of NASI's Membership Committee	Jonathan Oberlander Member of NASI's Membership Committee
Anna Rappaport Chair of NASI's Membership Committee	Robert Hudson Chair of the John A. Heinz Dissertation Award Committee	Gloria T Johnson Conference Co-Chair

2005

Susan Daniels Co-chair of NASI's 18th Annual Conference	Sheila P Burke Co-chair of the Long-Term Care study panel	Judy Feder Co-chair of the Long-Term Care study panel
Jennie Chin Hansen	Margaret C Simms	Bruce C Vladeck The 2005 recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award
Christine Baker Christine Baker has been the Executive Officer of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC) since its inception in 1994.	Frederick Kilbourne Frederick Kilbourne has worked as an independent consulting actuary since 1964.	Jeffrey R Brown Member of the “Uncharted Waters” Study Panel
Peter R Orszag Member of the “Uncharted Waters” Study Panel

2004

Jacob S Hacker Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor at Yale University and Fellow at the New America Foundation.	Michael R McMullan Deputy Director for Beneficiary Education in the Center for Beneficiary Choices at CMS.	Allan Hunt Vice-Chair of NASI's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee
Robert E McGarrah, Jr. Vice-Chair of NASI's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee	Robert B Steggert Chair of the Academy's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee	Linda E Fishman
Michael M Hash	John K Iglehart	Stephen C. Goss Recipient of the first Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
Peter Barth Co-Chair of "Interaction of Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability Insurance"	Ann Clayton Co-Chair of "Interaction of Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability Insurance"	Patricia M Owens Chair of the Academy's Development Committee