Principal Economist OECD
Edward Whitehouse leads the team analysing pensions in the social policy division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He is lead author of the OECD’s flagship report on retirement incomes, Pensions at a Glance, whose fourth edition will be published in March 2011.
He also works in the Pensions Unit of the World Bank. He wrote the joint World Bank/OECD report, Pensions Panorama: Retirement-Income Systems in 53 countries, published in November 2006. He has worked on pension reforms in many countries; most recently, Canada, Egypt, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Previously, Edward was a leader writer and social affairs correspondent for the Financial Times and worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. He has taught at University College, London and Oxford University.