James Poterba

President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research

Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAMES POTERBA is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit research organization with more than 1900 affiliated economists. His recent research analyzes tax policy, the accumulation and draw-down of retirement saving, and the economic effects of population aging. He has served as president of the National Tax Association, vice president of the American Economic Association, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He chairs the board of trustees of  the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF). He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a D. Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall scholar.