Policy Dialogue on Retirement Incomes

9.00 – 9.15 am

Welcome

Professor Helen Sullivan - Director, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

9.15 – 10.30 am

Video recording available

SESSION ONE: Challenges with the Australian Policy Design
Session Chair: Jenny Gordon - Chief Economist, Nous Group

An Assessment of the Australian Model
David Knox - Senior Partner, Mercer

Panellists:

'More Choices for a Longer Life'
Darren Kennedy – Principal Advisor, Retirement Income Policy Division, Australian Treasury

Philip Brown, Branch Manager, Policy Strategy and Investment

Peter Whiteford – Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

10.30 – 11.00 am

Morning Tea

11.00 am – 12.15 pm

Video recording available 

SESSION TWO: International Developments in Retirement Incomes Policy
Session Chair: George Kudrna - Senior Research Fellow, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney

International Developments in Retirement Incomes Policy
Axel Borsch-Supan – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Economics of Aging

Panellists:

Hazel Bateman – Professor and CEPAR Chief Investigator, UNSW Sydney

John Piggott – Director, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney

Andrew Podger - Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University

12.15 – 1.15 pm

Lunch

1.15 – 3.00 pm

Video recording available

SESSION THREE: Implementing Policy in the context of a Choice and Guidance Framework
Session Chair: Warwick McKibbin - Professor and CEPAR Chief Investigator, Australian National University

Implementing Policy in a Choice and Guidance Framework
Jeremy Cooper – Chairman, Retirement Income, Challenger

Women and Work: 'Choices' over the Life Cycle
Marian Baird – Professor and CEPAR Chief Investigator, The University of Sydney 

Panellists:

Susan Thorp – Professor and CEPAR Associate Investigator, The University of Sydney

Mike Orszag – Head of Research, Willis Towers Watson

3.00 – 3.15 pm

Closing Remarks

John Piggott – Director, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney