Pension Systems for the Future

PROGRAMME

Opening address: Jóhanna Sigurđardóttir, Minister of Welfare
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I. part:  Nordic Pension Systems and their Recent Reforms (time: 9-12)
 
1. Joakim Palme, professor Stockholm University and director of Institute for Future Studies:
The Swedish Pension Reform and Beyond: Economic and Political Sustainability?
 
2. Olli Kangas,director of research, Finnish Social Security Institute (KELA):
Finland: Reforming pensions through piecemeal changes
 
3. Axel West Pedersen senior researcher at  NOVA Welfare Research Centre, Oslo:
The emerging Norwegian pension reform. A softer version of the Swedish
prototype?
 
4. Jörgen-Goul Andersen, professor University of Arhus and director of Centre for Comparative Welfare Research:
Denmark: A Social Democratic Multipillar System. Adequacy and economic 
sustainability, but political vulnerability?

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II. part: Reforming the Icelandic Pension System (time: 13-15:30)
 
5. Hrafn Magnússon, director of Federation of Icelandic Occupational Pension Funds:
The Icelandic Pension System: Characteristics and Reform
 
6. Stefán Ólafsson, professor University of Iceland and chairman of board Social Security Administration:
Reassessing the Icelandic Pension System
 
 
Roundtable: The Icelandic Pension System: What Needs to be Reformed?
Convenor:
Ragnhildur Arnljótsdóttir, department head, Ministry of Welfare
 
Participants:
Gylfi Arnbjörnsson, director of Icelandic Federation of Labour
Margrét Margeirsdóttir, Association of Elderly CItizens
Ólafur Ísleifsson, associate profesor University of Reykjavik
Vilhjálmur Egilsson, director Federation of Employers
Ögmundur Jónasson, director Federation of Public Employees and Member of Parliament

For more information contact Stefán Ólafsson or Axel West Pedersen