Research Fellow

Ashby H. B. Monk holds concurrent Research Fellowships at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the University of Oxford. His research, which is funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK) and the Social Security Administration (USA), is on the design and governance of financial institutions, with particular focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He has published numerous academic papers related to the above. He is the editor of a forthcoming book entitled Managing Financial Risk: From Local to Global (Oxford University Press), and he is the co-author of a forthcoming book entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds: Power, Governance and Legitimacy (Princeton University Press).

Ashby recently received his PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford in economic geography. He also holds a Master's degree in international economics from Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University. He has also worked in investment banking, private equity, and strategy consulting. Recently, he has had consulting engagements with the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, the State Treasurer of Vermont, and Oxford Analytica, where he is an expert contributor.

Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research

Completed

"Pension Buyouts: What Can We Learn From The UK Experience?" Working Paper, #2009-19, September 2009. 

"Risk Pooling and the Market Crash: Lessons From Canada's Pension Plan" (with Steven A. Sass), Issue in Brief, #9-12, June 2009.

"Is CalPERS a Sovereign Wealth Fund?" Issue in Brief, #8-21, December 2008.