Keynote Speakers
Monday, May 5
David G. Hartman
President of the International Actuarial Association
Theme: Global Challenges and Opportunities facing the Actuarial Profession
David G. Hartman is President of the International Actuarial Association for the year 2008. He was Chairperson of the IAA Task Force on Strategic Planning in 2007.
Mr. Hartman retired in 2005 from the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies after 34 years where he had served as Managing Director, Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary.
In his professional career, Mr. Hartman has been a member of the American Academy of Actuaries since 1972 and served as President in 1993-94. He has been a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society since 1972 and served as President in 1987-88. In 1989, he became a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Dave has a long history with the International Actuarial Association having served as a Council member representing various associations since 1996. He is a member of both the ASTIN and AFIR Sections and was Chairman of ASTIN from June 2003 to June 2007. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Actuarial Foundation.
Tuesday, May 6
Alicia H. Munnell
Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Theme: Social and Economic Aspects of Contemporary Retirement and Health Issues
Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Before joining Boston College in 1997, Alicia Munnell was a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1995-1997) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1993-1995). Previously, she spent 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1973-1993), where she became Senior Vice President and Director of Research in 1984. She has published many articles, authored numerous books, and edited several volumes on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity.
Alicia Munnell was co-founder and first President of the National Academy of Social Insurance and is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the Pension Research Council at Wharton. She is a member of the Board of The Century Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Pension Rights Center. And she was awarded the 2007 International INA Prize for Insurance Sciences by the Italian Academia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.
Alicia Munnell earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Boston University, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Wednesday, May 7
David M. Walker
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (The Peterson Foundation)
Theme: Future Delivery, Affordability and Sustainability of Health Care and Retirement Income in a Global Context
David M. Walker is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (The Peterson Foundation). As CEO, he is charged with leading the Peterson Foundation's efforts to: enhance public understanding of the nature and urgency of selected key sustainability challenges that threaten America’s future; propose sensible and workable solutions to address these challenges, and; build public and political will to do something about them. This includes efforts in connection with selected fiscal, entitlement, health care, energy, education, and nuclear non-proliferation issues.
Prior to joining the Peterson Foundation, Mr. Walker served over nine years as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). During his tenure as Comptroller General, he led a major transformation effort to improve the visibility, viability and performance of the GAO. He also led a number of efforts designed to modernize the accountability profession both domestically and internationally. As Comptroller General, Walker was also an outspoken and non-partisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other national sustainability and government transformation challenges facing the United States.
Before his appointment as Comptroller General, Mr. Walker had extensive executive level experience in both government and private industry. For example, between 1989 and 1998, Mr. Walker was a partner and global managing director of the human capital services practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. While a partner at Arthur Andersen, Mr. Walker also served as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995.
Before joining Arthur Andersen, Mr. Walker was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs from 1987 to 1989 and in 1985; he served as Acting Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. His earlier technical, professional, and business experience was with Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand and Source Services Corporation, an international human resources consulting and search firm.
Mr. Walker is Chairman of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee for the United Nations and a member of the Board of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Partnership for Public Service. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the National Academy of Social Insurance and an active member of various professional, public service, and patriotic organizations, including the Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. Walker has won numerous national and international awards for outstanding leadership in several areas. For example, he was recognized as: the Outstanding CPA in Government (2002) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); the International Stockberger Achievement Award (2004) from the International Public Management Association for Human Resources, the Austrian Presidential Grand Order of Merit with Sash (2006) for his leadership in connection with the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (2006); National Public Administrator of the Year by the George M. Romney Institute (2006), Economic Patriot of the Year by the Concord Coalition (2007), Government Communicator of the Year by the National Association of Government Communicators (2008), and Strategic Vision Award from the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Strategy Institute (2008).
Mr. Walker is a certified public accountant. He has a B.S. degree in accounting from Jacksonville University and a Senior Management in Government Certificate in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from several colleges and universities, including his alma mater and The American University. Mr. Walker has completed numerous continuing education courses in a wide range of fields, including the six-week CAPSTONE course for military Generals and Admirals.
Mr. Walker has authored two books and has written numerous articles and opinion letters on a variety of subjects. He is a periodic television and radio commentator and is frequently quoted on a range of public policy and government transformation issues.