Directors and Staff

Dmitriy Stolyarov

MRDRC Director & Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Dmitriy Stolyarov is an associate professor of economics  at the University of Michigan. Stolyarov also heads the Life-Cycle Economics Department at the Institute for Social Research. He pursues a tridirectional research program in macroeconomics analyzing policy-relevant consequences of population aging, technological change, and propagation mechanisms for income inequality. His current research interests are in the following topic areas: consumption and saving after retirement, retirement timing, durable goods subject to technological change, impact of technological change on capital markets, and income and wealth inequality.

Susann Rohwedder

Director for Strategic Planning and Institutional and Community Partnerships, RAND Corporation
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Rohwedder is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, associate director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging, and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has been affiliated with and contributed to the MRDRC for over 20 years, conducting research in several of Social Security’s focal areas related to the financial security of the older population and disparities therein. In her role at MRDRC, she provides input on the center’s strategic directions and activities with a particular focus on building and maintaining an institutionally and methodologically diverse researcher network. She serves as liaison for the MRDRC-CDU-RAND collaboration initiatives.

Susan Barnes

External Relations Manager
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Cheri Brooks

Center Administrator
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MRDRC directors emeriti

John Laitner, 2002 to 2023
Thomas Juster, 2001 to 2002
Lee Lillard, 1999 to 2001