Teresa Ghilarducci is the Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) at The New School. She joined The New School after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and 10 years as director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the university. She has written and lectured extensively on pension issues, including the award winning book Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, and she co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. Dr. Ghilarducci’s book, When I'm 64: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, investigates the effect of pension losses on older Americans. She frequently publishes in refereed journals and testifies before the U.S. Congress. She serves as a public trustee for the Health Care VEBAs for UAW Retirees of General Motors and for the USW retirees for Goodyear. She served on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Advisory Board from 1996 to 2001and on the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund from 1996 to 2002.