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Marilyn Moon is currently Vice President and Director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute from 1994-2003 and served as Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds from 1995 to 2000. In the fall of 1989, she served as a consultant to the Pepper Commission. From 1986 to 1989, Ms. Moon was Director of the Public Policy Institute at the American Association of Retired Persons. Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute, a Senior Research Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, and as an Associate Professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. From 1993 to 2001, she wrote a column in The Washington Post answering questions on health care coverage. Ms. Moon has served on as President of NASI, as a member of its Board of Directors and as a member of its Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term Steering Committee. She chaired the Study Panel on Medicare Financing. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Journal on Health Care Delivery and Financing of the Social Insurance Research Network (SIRN). A founding member of NASI, she received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.