Shlomo Benartzi

Behavioral economist and UCLA Professor Emeritus Shlomo Benartzi is best known for helping 25 million American workers significantly boost their savings rates. He developed the Save More Tomorrow program with Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler, which helps employees improve their savings rates over time, and is now implemented by the majority of large retirement plans in the United States, with key elements included in the Pension Protection Act of 2006. He currently serves as Senior Academic Advisor for the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation, and has served on advisory boards for Acorns, WisdomTree, Morningstar and Personal Capital.