Kent Smetters
| Kent Smetters | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Philadelphia, PA |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University, Harvard University |
| Known for | Insurance, Risk Management, Social Security Policy |
Kent Smetters is an academic, entrepreneur, and former government official.
Smetters was raised in Ohio. He received his bachelor's degrees in Economics and Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 1990, and Master and PhD degrees in Economics from Harvard University in 1992 and 1995 respectively.
Smetters is a Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the Joseph E. and Ruth E. Boettner Professor of Financial Gerontology. Financial Gerontology is the study of aging and related financial and business impacts, applying the functionality of gerontology to the concepts of financial planning. Professor Smetters has written on government debt and Social Security policy and has a strong interest in financial planning, analyzing relationships between the economic well-being of the elderly and their social, legal, psychological, physical, and environmental well-being. Smetters has also written about the need for insurance industry reform and supports the notion that the private sector should provide terrorism insurance or protection instead of government. He has held visiting appointments with the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Smetters has also published several papers and chapters with the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he continues to be a Research Associate in Public Economics and Faculty Research Fellow for the Aging Program. Since 2000, he has been with the Michigan Retirement Research Center as a Research Associate.
From 1995-1999, Smetters was an Economist at the Congressional Budget Office. In 1999, he served as a Consultant for the World Bank. He became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy of the United States Treasury in 2001, where he stayed on for another year as a Consultant. He was also a Member of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Dynamic Scoring, U.S. Congress from 2002-2003. He is a visiting scholar of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
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