EBRI’s Dallas L. Salisbury to be Featured in Leaders & Innovators Interview Series.

dsAn interview with Dallas Salisbury, President & CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) will be appearing soon as part of the Leaders & Innovators series.

EBRI is an unbiased research organization whose stated mission is to contribute to, to encourage and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education. EBRI is one of the 25 most frequently quoted “think tanks” in the world.

Salisbury joined EBRI as its founding in 1978. He is regularly featured at Congressional and Commission hearings, and in print and broadcast media around the world.

Salisbury assists as a member of a number of commissions, study panels and editorial advisory boards. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and a member of the Board of the NAHR Foundation, the Fidelity Research Institute Pyramid Prize Advisory Board, the Commission on a High Performance Health System, the Board of the NASD Investor Education Foundation and the Board of Advisors to the Comptroller General of the United States, the NACUBO Human Resource Quarterly Advisory Panel, and on the GAO Advisory Group on Social Security and Retirement.

He has served on the Secretary of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, the Presidential appointed PBGC Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Society for Human Resources Management, the U.S. Advisory Panel on Medicare Education, and the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Salisbury has been honored with the Award for Professional Excellence from the Society for Human Resource Management, the Plan Sponsor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Keystone Award of World at Work. Dallas was a delegate to the 1998, 2002 and 2006 National Summit’s on Retirement Savings, and the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.

Salisbury has written, edited and lectured extensively on economic security topics, including 24 books and 129 book chapters and articles. His most recent books are: “Retirement Security in the United States: Current Sources, Future Prospects, and Likely Outcomes of Current Trends”, “The Future of Retirement Income in America”, “The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?”, “IRA and 401(k) Investing” and “Managing Money in Retirement”.

Prior to joining EBRI, he held full-time positions with the Washington State Legislature, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, (formerly known as the PWBA) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). He holds a B.A. degree in finance from the University of Washington and an M.A. in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.