Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Social Security and public pension reform, retirement income policy and public sector pay and benefits. Before joining AEI, Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he oversaw SSA's policy research efforts. In 2005, as an associate director of the White House National Economic Council, he worked on Social Security reform. In 2001, he joined the staff of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. In 2013, the Society of Actuaries appointed Biggs co-vice chair of its Blue Ribbon Panel on Public Pension Funding. In 2014, Institutional Investor Magazine named him one of the 40 most influential people in the retirement world. In 2016, Biggs was appointed by President Obama to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. Biggs holds a bachelor's degree from Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, master's degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.