Michael HODIN

Michael W. Hodin, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Global Coalition on Aging and a Managing Partner at High Lantern Group. Hodin is also a featured blogger on The Huffington Post and at The Fiscal Times, under the Age and Reason Blog.From 1976-80, Mike was Legislative Assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. During this period he was also a Visiting Scholar at Brookings Institution, on U.S. Foreign Economic Policy. He was a senior executive at Pfizer, Inc. for 30 years, where he created and then led its International Public Affairs and Public Policy operations.Mike is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 2010-2013, was Adjunct Senior Fellow. He sits on the Boards of the Foreign Policy Association, the Business Council for International Understanding, The NYC Blood Center, the American Skin Association, the American Society on Aging, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, Emigrant Savings Bank, where he is Chairman of its compensation committee and on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Population Ageing.Mike holds a BA, cum laude, Cornell University, M.Sc.in International Relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.Phil and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.