Eric Kingson

Eric Kingson is professor emeritus of social work at Syracuse University and a faculty affiliate of the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute and an affiliated researcher with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Kingson is founding co-director since 2009 of the Social Security Works. Located at the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO, Social Security Works launched and staffs the Strengthen Social Security Coalition (co-chaired by Kingson), a coalition of over 300 national and state organizations dedicated to advancing economic security through strengthening and expanding our nation’s Social Security policies and programs. A member of the organizing committee and then founding board member, 1988-1997, of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), he was re-elected to its board in 2015. Past-chair (2004) of the Social Research, Policy and Practice section of the Gerontological Society of America, he directed the organization’s Emerging Issues in Aging Program (1984-5). Kingson served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions — the 1982-3 National Commission on Social Security Reform and the 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. An active volunteer on the Obama Campaign’s Retirement Security Policy Advisory Committee beginning in July 2007, he later served on the advisory committee to the Social Security Administration’s transition team.