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Speaker Bios

Elinor Ginzler
Director for Livable Communities in the Office of Social Impact, AARP

Elinor Ginzler is Director for Livable Communities in the Office of Social Impact at AARP. She is responsible for the development of multi-year strategic plans to achieve social impact goals for AARP in the areas of Mobility and Housing, and driving the execution of annual operational plans, using matrix management cross association working groups.    

Since joining AARP in 1998, Ms. Ginzler has been a key leader in AARP independent living/long-term care efforts and has been instrumental in planning, designing, coordinating and overseeing programmatic work in these areas. 

With over 20 years experience in service delivery systems to the elderly, she has an extensive work history in program management and development, as well as experience in working collaboratively with public, private non-profit and community-based organizations.

She is an expert on long-term care issues, including home and community-based services, caregiving, nursing home quality and other long-term care housing issues.  She has served on several boards and task forces including the Eldercare Locator Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission and the Board of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. In addition, she is co-author with Hugh Delehanty of Caring for Your Parents –The Complete AARP Guide, published by Sterling Publishing.

Ms. Ginzler holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her graduate studies at the University of Maryland.  Contact Elinor Ginzler at eginzler@aarp.org.

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Dallas Salisbury

President and CEO, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Dallas Salisbury is President and CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). EBRI was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1978.  EBRI provides objective information regarding the employee benefit system and re­lated financial security issues.  The objective: that decisions be made based on verifiable facts.  Dallas joined EBRI at its founding in 1978. The EBRI mission: “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 has earned widespread regard as an organization that "tells it like it is.”  The Institute does not lobby and does not advocate or oppose any policy position.   EBRI is supported financially by for-profit and non-profit corporations of all types, foundations, unions, government organizations, and international organizations seeking to better understand U.S economic security programs.  Researchers, policy makers and the media rely heavily on EBRI research.  Dallas and his team are regularly featured at Congressional and Commission hearings, and in print and broadcast media around the world.  EBRI is one of the 20 most frequently quoted “think-tanks” in the nation.  EBRI work reaches the world through www.ebri.org and EBRI educates the general public on the importance of employee benefits and financial planning through the ChoosetoSave® education program, including radio and television public service messages and www.choosetosave.org .

Dallas is currently a member of a number of commissions, study panels and serves on many editorial advisory boards. Dallas is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources,  recipient of the Award for Professional Excellence from the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Keystone Award of World at Work .  He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the NASD Investor Education Foundation; the Advisory Committee to the Comptroller General of the United States; and on the GAO Advisory Group on Social Security and Retirement. Dallas was a delegate to the 1998 and 2002 National Summit's on Retirement Savings hosted by the President and Congressional Leaders.  He has served on the Secretary of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council, the Presidentially 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.  Dallas has written and lectured extensively on economic security topics.  His most recent books are: “The Future of Social Insurance:  Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?”, “IRA and 401(k) Investing” and “Managing Money in Retirement”.   

Prior to joining EBRI, Dallas 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.  Contact Dallas Salisbury at salisbury@ebri.org.

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Bob Rosenblatt

Senior Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance

Bob Rosenblatt is a senior fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Washington, DC think tank dealing with Social Security, Medicare and related issues. He writes a column on health policy issues for the website of the California HealthCare Foundation. He is editorial board chairman and a columnist for Aging Today, the newsletter of the American Society on Aging. Rosenblatt was a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times from 1975-2002, and also wrote a column on health insurance issues for the paper's health section.  Contact Bob Rosenblatt at bobblatt@aol.com.

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