Ben Veghte

Benjamin W. Veghte is Vice President for Policy at the National Academy of Social Insurance. Prior to that he was Director of Policy and Research at Social Security Works. He is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. His research explores how capitalist democracies can effectively mitigate social inequality. Dr. Veghte has published on issues related to Social Security, retirement security, Medicare, health insurance, social insurance, and housing policy. He holds a Ph.D. in European intellectual history from the University of Chicago and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He taught comparative social policy and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen, Germany, until 2008, and served as a social policy consultant for the European Union. Since then, Dr. Veghte worked as Research Associate at the National Academy of Social Insurance and as Executive Director of the Scholars Strategy Network at Harvard University.