Axel Boersch-Supan:
Director, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Axel Boersch-Supan is Director of the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) and Professor for Macroeconomics and Public Policy at the University of Mann-heim, Germany. He is Coordinator of SHARE, a large scale data collection effort to study health, aging and retirement in Europe financed by the European Commission. He is also Speaker of the Special Research Unit on Behavioral Economics (Sonderforschungsbereich 504) at the University of Mannheim. Boersch-Supan holds a degree in Mathematics from Bonn University and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. He started teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then taught at Dortmund and at Dresden, Germany, before moving to Mannheim to his current position.

Boersch-Supan is Member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina", and of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin-Brandenburg. He serves as member of the Council of Advisors to the German Economics Ministry and co-chaired the pension reform group of the German Social Security Reform (Rürup) Commission. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Research Professor of the Center of European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.