Neal E. Cutler, PhD

Vice President, Dean of Educational Programs

Dr. Neal Cutler oversees curriculum development and certification standards for the American Institute of Financial Gerontology. He holds the Boettner/Gregg Chair in Financial Gerontology at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he directs Financial Literacy 2000, a research program focusing on the impact of aging on issues of finance, health, retirement and families. Dr. Cutler is also Director of Survey Research for the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) in Washington, D.C., where among other projects he has current responsibility for NCOA's Myths and Realities of Aging surveys. From 1973 to 1989 he held a dual appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, and he was Associate Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center's Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Dr. Cutler is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Service Professionals, and serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of The Gerontologist and the American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. During 1997-1999 he was editor of the Financial Gerontology Review, a publication of the National Institute of Financial Services for Elders (NIFSE), a constituent unit of the National Council on the Aging. He was consulting editor to the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology (Greenwood, 1996), co-author of Aging, Money, and Life Satisfaction: Aspects of Financial Gerontology (Springer, 1992), and Can You Afford to Retire? (Probus, 1992).

His newest book, Advising Mature Clients: The New Science of Wealth Span Planning, was published by John Wiley in March 2002. His over 200 publications have appeared in such journals as: Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Gerontology, Journal of Financial Service Professionals, American Political Science Review, Psychology Today, American Journal of Alzheimer's Research, Generations, Journal of Behavioral Economics and The Gerontologist. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, CBS News and NPR's "All Things Considered."