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Carolyn L. Weaver American Enterprise Institute 1150 Seventeenth St., N.W. Washington, DC 20036-4670 Tel: (202) 862-5800 Fax: (202) 862-7177

Carolyn L. Weaver is Resident Scholar and Director of Social Security and Pension Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of Crisis in Social Security: Economic and Political Origins (Duke University Press) and the editor of two AEI books, Social Security's Looming Surpluses: Prospects and Implications and Disability and Work: Incentives, Rights, and Opportunities, and has written widely on social security, disability policy, and political economy. Her editorials have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The New York Daily News, and USA Today. Dr. Weaver is presently completing a book on social security reform.

From 1981 to 1984, Dr. Weaver served as chief professional staff member on social security for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, under the Chairmanship of Senator Robert Dole, and during that time also served as Senior Advisor to the 1983 National Commission on Social Security Reform (the Greenspan Commission). Since then, she has served on several public advisory councils, including the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security, which issued its final report in January. She was a member of the Social Security Advisory Board from 1994-1997. Dr. Weaver testifies frequently on Capitol Hill on issues pertaining to social security and the budget, social security solvency and reform, disability policy, and welfare reform.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Weaver was a senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She has also been a member of the economics faculties of Tulane University and Virginia Tech., where she received her Ph.D.

Dr. Weaver is a members of Phi Beta Kappa and is listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry. She resides in Alexandria, VA, with her husband and two sons.