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Paul Irving

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Paul Irving

Senior Fellow and Founding Chairman, Center for the Future of Aging, Milken Institute
Paul Irving

Paul Irving is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, previously serving as the Institute’s president and founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging. Irving is also a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the USC Davis School of Gerontology. He earlier served as an advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University, and chair and CEO of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Irving is chair emeritus and a member of the board of Encore.org, and serves on the National Academy of Medicine Commission for Healthy Longevity, the Global Advisory Council of Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute, the Board of Councilors of the USC Davis School, and the Advisory Board of WorkingNation. He is a director and chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of East West Bancorp, Inc., and a member of the International Strategic Committee of the Quadrivio Group Silver Economy Fund. Irving previously served on the Bipartisan Policy Center Senior Health and Housing Task Force and participated in the 2015 White House Conference on Aging. Irving is the author/editor of “The Upside of Aging: How Long Life Is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose,” a Wall Street Journal expert panelist and contributor to the Harvard Business Review, PBS NextAvenue, and Forbes. PBS NextAvenue named Irving an “Influencer” for his work, and he received the Janet L. Witkin Humanitarian Award by Affordable Living for the Aging, the Life Journey Inspiration Award by Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, and the Board of Governors Award by Loyola Law School.