Peter Diamond, Global Insights Distinguished Speaker and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow, is an American economist acclaimed for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy. He is currently serving as an Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, an institution where he has been since 1966. In 2010, Diamond was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their analysis of the foundation of search markets. Prior to researching search markets, he worked as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s and a consultant in Congressional Finance Committee hearings. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, being a founder of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Diamond.s numerous publications cover tax and social security policy, with his last two books on the subject, "Pension Reform: A Short Guide" and "Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices," being published in 2010 and 2008, respectively. He graduated summa cum laude to receive his B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

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