Gopi Shah Goda

DIRECTOR, RETIREMENT SECURITY PROJECT

ALICE M. RIVLIN CHAIR IN ECONOMIC POLICY

SENIOR FELLOW, ECONOMIC STUDIES

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Serves as research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
  • Received research sponsorship from the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes on Aging, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the TIAA Institute.
  • Published in a variety of leading economics journals.

Before joining the Brookings Institute in 2024, Gopi Shah Goda was a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. She has also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and on California Governor Gavin Newsom's Council of Economic Advisors.

Gopi’s research informs how policy can best serve aging societies, including how individuals make healthcare, saving and retirement decisions as they age and the sustainability of public programs serving older populations. Her current scholarship examines the implications of subsidizing medical spending through the tax code and how long-term care is financed in the U.S. and other countries.

She earned her B.S. in mathematics and actuarial science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University.