Conveners
- Stephen Wandner,* Visiting Fellow, Urban Institute, Moderating “Promoting Reemployment through Unemployment Insurance”
- William Rodgers,* Chief Economist, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, National Academy of Social Insurance Moderating “Priorities for Future Work on UI”
Moderators
- Richard Hobbie,* Visiting Scholar, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University, Moderating “Reinventing the UI Program”
- Christopher O’Leary,* Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Moderating “The State of Unemployment Insurance Financing after the Great Recession”
Featured Speaker
- Suzanne Simonetta,* Chief, Division of Legislation, Office of Unemployment Insurance, U.S. Department of Labor
Participants
- Dean Baker,* Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Yvette Chocolaad,* Policy Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
- Paul Decker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mathematica Policy Research
- Gay Gilbert, Administrator, Office of Unemployment Insurance, U.S. Department of Labor
- Claire McKenna, Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project
- Sara Rix,* Retired, AARP
- Julie Squire, Policy Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
- Jim Van Erden, Senior Policy Advisor, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
- Anna Wadia, Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation
- Jeffrey Wenge,* Senior Policy Researcher, RAND
- George Wentworth,* Senior Staff Attorney, National Employment Law Project
* Academy Member