James Poterba

Outside Activities

(updated January 2020)

In addition to my role as a faculty member at MIT, I am engaged in a number of outside activities. In the last three years, I have been:

(i) President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit organization devoted to economic research (www.nber.org).

(ii) Trustee of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF) and independent director of the TIAA-CREF mutual funds (www.tiaa-cref.org).

(iii) Trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (www.sloan.org).

(iv) Member of the Panel of Economic Advisers at the Congressional Budget Office (www.cbo.gov).

In addition to the activities listed above, I also periodically make presentations for which I receive compensation. During the period 2017-2019, I received more than $500 from each of the following organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Copenhagen Business School, Norges Bank Investment Management, RAND Corporation, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.