Marilyn Moon

Marilyn Moon is Vice President and Director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research, or AIR. A nationally known economist and expert on Medicare, aging, and health care financing, Dr. Moon has served as a public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. She has written extensively on health policy, both for the elderly and the population in general, and on social insurance issues. Her most recent book, Medicare: A Policy Primer, was published in 2006.

Dr. Moon is the chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission and has served on a number of boards for nonprofit organizations, the Medicare Rights Center, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She is a member of the Institute for Medicine and has served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute. From 1993 to 2000, she wrote a periodic column for The Washington Post on health reform and health coverage issues.

Dr. Moon earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, and the founding Director of the Public Policy Institute of the American Association of Retired Persons.