Alicia Munnell
| Alicia Munnell | |
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| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy | |
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In office May 20, 1993 – December 22, 1995 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Sidney L. Jones |
| Succeeded by | Joshua Gotbaum |
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December 6, 1942 New York, New York, United States |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
Wellesley College Boston University Harvard University |
Alicia Haydock Munnell (born December 6, 1942) is an American economist who is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Educated at Wellesley College, Boston University, and Harvard University, Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she researched wealth, savings, and retirement among American workers. She served in the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Since 1997 she has been a professor at Boston College and director of its Center for Retirement Research, where she writes on retirement income policy.
Alicia Haydock Munnell was born December 6, 1942, in New York City. In 1964 she received a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received an M.A. in economics from Boston University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1973. At Harvard she studied public and private retirement savings plans.
Munnell held a number of short-term positions before earning her doctorate. She was a teaching fellow in the economics departments of Boston University and Harvard University from 1965 to 1966 and from 1971 to 1973, respectively. From 1964 to 1965 she was a staff assistant in the Business Research Division of the New England Telephone Company. From 1966 to 1968 she was a research assistant to Joseph A. Pechman, then director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. She also had an appointment as Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley in 1974.
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