Laurence Kotlikoff
Professor Laurence Kotlikoff is one of the nation's leading experts on fiscal policy, national saving, and personal finance. He works on a broad range of global, national, and personal policy issues that include climate change and carbon taxation, the global macroeconomic transition and the future of economic power, inequality, fiscal progressivity, using economics to guide personal financial behavior, banking reform, marginal taxation and labor supply, healthcare reform, and social security.
Laurence Kotlikoff Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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William Warren Fairfield Professor
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Professor of Economics
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Research Associate
Academic History
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PhD in Economics
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BA in Economics, Summa Cum Laude
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University
- Professor of Economics at Boston University
- President of Economic Security Planning
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
PUBLICATIONS
- Professor Kotlikoff publishes extensively in newspapers and magazines on issues of financial reform, personal finance, taxes, Social Security, health care, deficits, generational accounting, pensions, saving, and insurance.
- His writings and views appear on leading media outlets, including Forbes, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- The Economist named him one of the world’s 25 most influential economists in 2014.
OTHERS
- Professor Kotlikoff has provided expert testimony on numerous occasions to committees of Congress, including the Senate Finance committee, the House Ways and Means committee, and the Joint Economic committee.
- In consultation with a wide range of top economists and former top policymakers, he has developed extremely simple and highly practical proposals for reforming our tax system, our healthcare system, our banking system, Social Security system, welfare system, and government accounting system.
- His work with foreign governments, corporations, and international institutions has all been highly policy-oriented.