Alicia Munnell

Alicia Haydock Munnell is an American economist who was the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management from 1997-2024. Educated at Wellesley College, Boston University, and Harvard University, Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she researched wealth, savings, and retirement among American workers. She served in the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. She founded the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College in 1998 and served as its director until she stepped down at the end of 2024.