Deb Whitman

Debra Whitman is an economist and the executive vice president and chief public policy officer at AARP, where she leads policy development and research on aging, retirement security, health and long-term care. She previously served as staff director for the US Senate Special Committee on Aging and worked at the Congressional Research Service.

She is the author of The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond, and writes and speaks on how longer lives are reshaping work, family caregiving and public policy.