Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell
NationalityAmerican
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Institutions
Awards
  • Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association, 2023
  • FINRA Investor Education Foundation Ketchum Prize, 2019
  • ICA 2018 Best Paper Award, 2017
  • Robert C Witt Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2021 and 2017
  • EBRI Lillywhite Award, 2017
  • Q-Group Roger F. Murray Award, 2016
  • CRAIN Top 100 Innovators, Disruptors, and Change-Makers in Business, 2016
  • Top 10 Women Economists, World Economic Forum, 2015
  • Carolyn Bell Shaw Award, 2007

Olivia S. Mitchell (born 1953) is an American economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the executive director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security. She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.