GAI Staff

Richard Jackson is currently a Senior Fellow at CSIS, where he directs the Global Aging Initiative, a research program that explores the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of the aging of the population in the United States and around the world. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a Senior Advisor to the Concord Coalition.  Jackson is the author of numerous policy studies, including The Graying of the Great Powers: Demographics and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (CSIS; 2008);The Aging of Korea: Demographics and Retirement Policy in the Land of the Morning Calm (CSIS/MetLife; 2007); Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods: Current Practice and How to Improve It (CSIS; 2006); Building Human Capital in an Aging Mexico (CSIS; 2005); The Graying of the Middle Kingdom (CSIS/Prudential Financial; 2004); The CSIS Aging Vulnerability Index (CSIS/Watson Wyatt Worldwide; 2003); and The Global Retirement Crisis (CSIS/Citigroup; 2002). In 1994, he served as Blackstone Group Chairman Peter G. Peterson's liaison to the Kerrey-Danforth Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. From 1988 to 1992, he was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he contributed to the path-breaking Workforce 2000 project. Jackson regularly speaks on long-term demographic and economic issues and is widely quoted in the national and international media. He holds a B.A. in classics from SUNY at Albany and a Ph.D. in economic history from Yale University.  He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Perrine and three children, Benjamin, Brian, and Penelope.

Keisuke Nakashima is assistant director and fellow with the CSIS Global Aging Initiative (GAI). His research interests include the economics of population aging and social security reform, and he is the author of numerous articles on aging trends in East Asia. He recently coauthored China's Long March to Retirement Reform: The Graying of the Middle Kingdom Revisited (CSIS, 2009); "Meeting Japan's Aging Challenge" (Keidanren-USA, March 2008); and The Aging of Korea: Demographics and Retirement Policy in the Land of the Morning Calm (CSIS, March 2007). He began his tenure at CSIS in October 2002 as a research intern with GAI and was subsequently promoted to research assistant in August 2003, to research associate in November 2004, and to his current position in January 2009. Nakashima holds an M.A. in international relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a B.A. in Anglo-American studies from Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He has also studied at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at Newbury College. He is fluent in English and Japanese.

Neil Howe is an historian, economist, and demographer who writes and speaks frequently on the aging of the population, long-term fiscal policy, and generations in history. He is a senior associate with the CSIS Global Aging Initiative, a senior policy adviser to the Blackstone Group, and a senior adviser to the Concord Coalition. He is also cofounder of LifeCourse Associates, a marketing, human resources, and strategic planning consultancy serving corporate, government, and nonprofit clients. His coauthored books include On Borrowed Time (1988), Generations (Morrow, 1991), 13th-Gen (Vintage, 1993), The Fourth Turning (Broadway, 1997), and Millennials Rising (Vintage, 2000). He holds graduate degrees in history and economics from Yale University.

James C. Capretta is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and an Adjunct Fellow with the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Capretta has held senior positions in both the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. federal government and has nearly two decades of experience as a U.S. fiscal and entitlement policy analyst. He served as an Associate Director at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the lead OMB official for Social Security and health-care policy development and implementation. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade as a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Lecturer at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He earned an MA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University in 1987.