Brief Biographical Statement:


Jason Seligman is a Senior Economist at the Investment Company Institute, focusing on Retirement and Investor Research.  At ICI, Jason conducts research on the US retirement system, financial policies, retirement and savings behavior, financial literacy, investor attitudes and attributes, Social Security retirement and disability policies, and the positive impacts of defined contribution pensions for investors' broader capacity for wealth management.  

Prior to joining ICI, Jason worked as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and the Department of Treasury's Office of Economic Policy in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, and was a TIAA Institute Fellow. He held full time faculty positions at two R1 universities and advised the states of Ohio, Georgia, and California in the areas of economic development, revenue forecasting, tax policy, energy policy, and aging policy.   He holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.