Director of Retirement Education and Visiting Scholar

Francis Vitagliano, Director of Retirement Education and Visiting Scholar at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research entered the pension and retirement industry in 1974. Since then he has worked in many aspects of retirement plans including DB, DC and ESOPs, specializing in the design of retirement plans and their compliance with regulations.

For over twenty years Mr. Vitagliano worked closely with Nobel laureate, Prof Franco Modigliani and he is a co-inventor and patent holder with Prof. Modigliani for a unique and enhanced method of retirement loan processing. Together they developed novel approaches to retirement plan administration.

Before entering the retirement field Mr. Vitagliano was a Chinese linguist and analyst for the National Security Agency in Washington DC. He holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University, a degree in Chinese Mandarin from the Defense Language Institute and a diploma from the University of Salamanca.

Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research

Completed

"Learning by Teaching"  (with Steven A. Sass and Luke Delorme), Issue in Brief, #47, May 2006. 

"Why are Healthy Employers Freezing their Pensions?" (with Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, Mauricio Soto), Issue in Brief, #44, March 2006.