Meet our Advisory Board

Our advisory board consists of top pension experts and academics from different regions of the world.

Prof. Constantine Yannelis

Constantine is the Janeway Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow at Pembroke College, the Deputy Director of the Janeway Institute, a J.M. Keynes Fellow, and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. His research focuses on household finance, corporate finance, human capital, private equity, small business, and student loans. Yannelis has won numerous academic awards including the 2021 AQR Young Researcher Award, recognizing talented new academics producing innovative and impactful research.

Prof. Thomas Post

Thomas is an Associate Professor of Finance at Maastricht University and Open University and is affiliated with Netspar. He received his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin. He held visiting positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of New South Wales and worked for KPMG. In his research and teaching, he looks at understanding the psychological motivations that drive households’ financial decisions and developing nudges and interventions to change financial behaviors for the better.

Manuel García Huitrón

Manuel has over 20 years of experience in pensions. He is a co-founder of the global pension-tech startup “Nuovalo: modern longevity risk sharing architecture and technology.” Previously, he held a research faculty position at the Yale School of Management and worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance Corporation, and the World Bank. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the World Pension Summit, the Aging Finance Platform, and the Mercer-CFA Global Pensions Index.

Prof. Dimitrios Koufopoulos

Dimitrios is a Professor at the University of London (UoL), a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, CCLS at QMUL, an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London, and the Director of the Global Online MBA Programmes at the UoL. He supervises students at the University of Glasgow and Warwick University. Dimitrios also runs a boutique consulting firm, Gnosis Management Consultants, providing intelligent reports and advisory services on business and management issues.

Manuel Tabilo Sanhueza

Manuel holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economic and Exact Sciences from the University of Chile. Since 2011, he has worked in the International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP) as a Research Manager. In his duties, he has carried out descriptive studies and articles related to the functioning and new developments of private pension systems of different countries (with a focus on Latin America). Since 2021, he is also Vice President of the World Pension Alliance (WPA).

Dan McLaughlin

Dan has over 20 years of experience in pensions, technology and policy with first-hand experience of global pension systems. Dan is UK Country Head for Festina Finance, a hugely successful life and pension platform that provides technology to the largest pension providers in Europe. Previously, Dan was Director of International at Smart Pension leading the expansion of the Keystone technology platform into multiple continents. Dan has also advised ministers on business strategy and innovation.