Press Release

Naomi Fink Appointed as Chairperson and Kelly Hahn as Vice-Chairperson of EBRI's Retirement Security Research Center

Issued by EBRI [Employee Benefit Research Institute]

Apr. 20, 2022

(Washington, D.C.) – The Employee Benefit Research Institute’s (EBRI’s) Retirement Security Research Center (RSRC) announced today the appointment of Naomi Fink as chairperson and Kelly Hahn as vice-chairperson of this leading think tank for data-driven analyses of the current state of retirement planning and spending.

Fink is a retirement economist at Capital Group focusing on institutional retirement. She has 24 years of financial industry experience and has been with Capital Group for five years, which she had spent conducting research on retirement-related topics, including savings, investment, income, demographics and health. Before joining Capital Group, Fink founded Europacifica Consulting, a global economics and strategy consulting firm. She holds an MSc in Specialized Economic Analysis (Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets) from Barcelona GSE, an M.A. Honours from the University of St. Andrews and was nominated to the Japan Society of Monetary Economics in 2014.

Hahn has been a financial and investment industry executive for over 20 years. She is executive director at JPMorgan Asset Management where she works as a defined contribution strategist. In this role, Hahn is responsible for developing and delivering retirement insights within Defined Contribution to improve retirement outcomes. Previously, Hahn worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. She earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

“Both Naomi and Kelly have done incredible work in assessing the role of workplace retirement savings programs in Americans’ retirement security. Under their leadership, the RSRC will be well-positioned to continue its mission of exploring the key research questions when it comes to spending in retirement, lifetime income, the impact of proposed retirement policy initiatives, workforce retirement trends and more,” said EBRI President & CEO Lori Lucas.

The EBRl Retirement Security Research Center is dedicated to understanding retirement savings and spending patterns of retirees. This understanding provides a framework for developing practical solutions and informing policy discussions that can improve financial outcomes of American retirees.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute is a non-profit, independent and unbiased resource organization that provides the most authoritative and object information about critical issues relating employee benefit programs in the United States. For more information, visit www.ebri.org. # 

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