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Release Date: 10/26/2004
Release Number: 04-7
Contact Name: Gloria Della
Phone Number: 202.693.8666
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Washington, DC - Joseph S. Piacentini has been
named to the senior executive position of chief economist and director of
the Office of Policy and Research with the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in Washington, DC. |
In
this capacity, Piacentini oversees EBSA’s program of economic research
and statistics and provides statistical and actuarial support to all
components of the agency relating to retirement, health and other benefit
programs governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
He is responsible for EBSA’s pension and health benefits policy
development and analysis, related legislative activity and economic
analysis of EBSA regulatory policies. |
Piacentini
joined EBSA in 1996 and has served as the agency’s deputy director in
the Office of Research and Regulatory Analysis and in other senior level
positions. |
Prior
to that, he worked at Aetna Life and Casualty from 1991 to 1996 and held
the positions of director for pension issues and director for health
issues. Previously, he was a research associate with the Employee Benefit
Research Institute. |
Piacentini
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Dartmouth College and a
Master of Arts in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. He is a
native of Springfield, Massachusetts. |
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