Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council

The Academic and Policy Council convenes prominent experts from a range of disciplines to advance policies and practices that improve the lives of older adults.

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Elizabeth Blackburn

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Nobel Laureate; Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Alice Bonner

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Adjunct Faculty and Director of Strategic Partnerships for the CAPABLE Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
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Kathleen Brown

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Former California State treasurer
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Laura Carstensen

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Psychology and Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
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Angelique Chan

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Associate Professor & Executive Director, Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke NUS Medical School
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Pinchas Cohen

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
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Joseph Coughlin

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Founder and Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab
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Ken Dychtwald

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
President and CEO, Age Wave
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Ruth Finkelstein

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Rose Dobrof Executive Director & Professor of Urban Public Health, Brookdale Center for Aging, Hunter College, City University of New York
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Marc Freedman

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Founder and CEO, Encore.org
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Linda Fried

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
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Teresa Ghilarducci

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School
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Lynn Goldman

Future of Aging Advisory Board Council Member and Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Michael and Lori Milken Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
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Jennie Hansen Chin

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Former CEO of the American Geriatrics Society
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Yves Joanette

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Director, Digital Health Consortium, University of Montréal
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Robert Kramer

Future of Aging Advisory Board Leadership Council Member
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care; President and Founder, Nexus Insights
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Becca Levy

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Levy Becca Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Psychology, Yale University Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council ADVISORY/FELLOW "Becca Levy is professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public
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Jennifer Molinsky

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Project Director, Housing an Aging Society Program
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Andrew Scott

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Economics, London Business School; Co-Founder, The Longevity Forum; Author, “The 100-Year Life”
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Nirav Shah

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Senior Scholar, Stanford University
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Rodney Slater

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Co-Chairman, Transportation, Shipping and Logistics Practice, Squire Patton Boggs; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Trent Stamp

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
CEO, The Eisner Foundation
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Fernando Torres-Gil

Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles