Annamaria Lusardi
Annamaria Lusardi is Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Initiative for Financial Decision-Making, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at Stanford University. She is also Professor of Finance (by courtesy) at the GSB. Previously, she was University Professor at The George Washington University and, before that, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she started her academic career.
Rob Alessie
Rob Alessie is Professor of Micro-econometrics at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, a position he has held since 2008. Previously, he was full professor at Utrecht University. Before that he was an associate professor at the Free University of Amsterdam; he started his career as a junior and then senior researcher at Tilburg University. In addition, Alessie worked at various academic centers, such as CentER at Tilburg, University College London, CREST-INSEE (Paris), and the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a PhD from Tilburg University.
Alessie has coordinated several research projects for the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging, and Retirement (Netspar), such as “Pension, saving and retirement decisions” (see www.netspar.nl for more information). He was awarded research grants from other institutions, such as the Dutch National Science Foundation. He has published more than forty academic articles and ten book chapters. Moreover, he has supervised many PhD theses. Alessie also serves as an advisor to the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Analysis, the Dutch Central Bank, and the OECD.