| Kent Smetters |
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Kent Smetters, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Smetters's research focuses on questions of risk management and insurance.
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Professional Experience -Associate Professor (2004-present); Associate Professor (1998-2004), Department of Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-present -Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2004-present -Research Associate, Public Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001-present -Faculty Research Fellow, Aging Program, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000-present -Research Associate, Michigan Retirement Research Center, 2000-present -Sloan Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-present -Research Associate, Pension Research Council, University of Pennsylvania, 1998-present -Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1998-present -Consultant, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2002-2003 -Member, Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Dynamic Scoring, U.S. Congress, 2002-2003 -Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Treasury, 2001-2002 -The Kaiser Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2000-2001 -Consultant, World Bank, 1999 -Consultant, The Urban Institute, 1998-1999 -Economist, Congressional Budget Office, 1995-1998
Education Ph.D., M.A., Harvard University B.S., B.S., Ohio State University
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| Insurance |
| Risk management |
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| Contact Information |
Kent A. Smetters American Enterprise Institute 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 215-898-9811 Assistant: 202-862-5912 Fax: 215-898-0310 E-mail: smetters@wharton.upenn.edu
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