Tom Mackell, Jr.

Dr. Tom Mackell is an advisor and consultant in the employee benefits field in the private and public sectors with broad experience in the maritime, transportation, and steel industries and in health care, public safety, and financial services.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University and attended St. John's University School of Law. He earned a master's degree from Long Island University and a doctorate from Rutgers University.

Dr. Mackell is chairman of the board of directors of United Benefits and Pension Services, Inc., and is president of the Association of Benefit Administrators and editor of its newsletter, Insights.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Inter-American Dialogue and a director of the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies. He was a White House appointee to the ERISA Advisory Council to the Secretary of Labor from 1997 through 1999.

He spent 14 years with the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association as administrator of their jointly-administered trust funds and has spent the last 26 years in the investment management business working with Taft-Hartley, public and corporate pension funds, and endowments and foundations on asset allocation and corporate governance issues.

In addition, Dr. Mackell was a professor at C.W. Post Center, Long Island University’s School of Health and Public Affairs, and adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology Graduate Center for Labor and Industrial Relations School of Management, where he was also a member of the institution’s advisory board. He is a trustee of the Evelyn Brust Foundation and is a member of the Council on American Politics at the George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. He is a past member of the advisory boards of the Empire State College, St. Thomas University School of Law, and the Corsi Institute of Labor-Management Relations of Pace University.

He was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Investment Management Consultants Association, a member of the International Foundation for Employee Benefit Plans, a past member of the board of the American Benefits Council, and a member of the advisory boards of the Development Corporation for Israel and the National Association of Corporate Directors. He was a director of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives and a trustee of the New York Foundation.

Dr. Mackell is the author of  When the Good Pensions Go Away: Why America Needs a New Deal for Pension and Health Care Reform.