Date:13 December 2023
Time: 08:00 AM (EST) |14:00 PM (CET)

Demography is reshaping the economic and geopolitical landscape of the 21st century. The United States, along with the rest of the developed world, is entering an era of rapid population aging. Will it also be an era of rising fiscal burdens, chronically slow economic growth, and diminished geopolitical stature? China, the world's "factory floor" for the past 25 years, is now hitting its own demographic wall. Can a demographically graying and shrinking China still be an economically and geopolitically rising China? India, which just overtook China as the world's most populous country, has more favorable demographics. But can it overcome its many economic handicaps to replace China as he engine of global growth? And what about sub-Saharan Africa, which will account for two-thirds of the growth in the world's working-age population between now and 2050? Speakers explore the implications of thee and other global demographic developments for the world economy and world order.

Michael Clark | Moderator
Michael Clark is a Managing Director in Agilis's Denver office and is on the Board of Directors for IACA. He is a frequent speaker at industry and professional association conferences on both technical and soft-skills topics. He is regularly quoted in major trade magazines on pension related topics and has appeared on Bloomberg Radio.

Richard Jackson | Speaker
Richard Jackson, the president and founder of the Global Aging Institute (GAI), is an internationally recognized authority on global aging. Prior to launching GAI, Richard directed a research program on global aging at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the author or co-author of numerous policy studies on the global aging challenge, including Voluntary Pensions in Emerging Markets: New Strategies for Meeting the Retirement Security Challenge (2017); From Challenge to Opportunity: Wave 2 of the East Asia Retirement Survey (2015); Lessons from Abroad for the U.S. Entitlement Debate (2014); The Global Aging Preparedness Index, Second Edition (2013); and The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (2008). Richard regularly speaks on aging-related issues and is widely quoted in the media. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.

Tom Terry | Speaker
Tom Terry, who serves as chairman the Global Aging Institute's board of directors, is one of America's most highly respected actuaries and a thought leader in the profession both in the United States and abroad. Tom has forty years of experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within the pension industry. He is currently CEO of The Terry Group, an actuarial consulting firm he founded in 2010 that specializes in helping corporate and government clients strengthen the sustainability of complex financial security systems. Prior to launching the Terry Group, he served as CEO of JPMorgan Compensation and Benefits Strategies. Prior to that, he was CEO of Chicago Consulting Actuaries, another actuarial consulting firm that he founded. Tom served as president of the American Academy of Actuaries in 2014 and president of the International Actuarial Association in 2017. He holds a masters in actuarial science from the University of Michigan.