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Neal E. Cutler, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the UNCG Gerontology Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His current teaching and research interests focus on the connections among aging, business, and financial services in the context of generational change and family dynamics. Previously he held the Boettner/Gregg Chair in Financial Gerontology at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, and was Professor, School of Business Administration, and Professor, School of Human Service Professions. From 1973 to 1989 he held a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, and was Associate Director of the USC Andrus Gerontology Center’s Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Dr. Cutler is also Vice-President and Dean of Educational Programs of the American Institute of Financial Gerontology (AIFG), a professional educational partnership with the American Society on Aging and Widener University. AIFG provides specialized gerontological training to qualified financial services professionals through a certification program leading to the Registered Financial Gerontologist™ (RFG) designation.
Dr. Cutler received the 2006 Gloria Cavanaugh Award for Excellence in Education and Training in Aging from the American Society on Aging. In 2005 he was appointed as Senior Advisor to the Aging and Business Education Initiative of the AARP Office of Academic Affairs. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
He has written four books, the two most recent being: Advising Mature Clients: The New Science of Wealth Span Planning (2002), and American Perceptions of Aging in the 21st Century (2002). He is the co-editor of Silver Industries, the Winter 2004/05 issue of Generations. Dr. Cutler is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Service Professionals and since 1990 has written the journal’s column on "Financial Gerontology." He is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, and was Founding Editor of the Financial Gerontology Review (1997-1999). He is co-editor of Aging, Money, and Life Satisfaction: Aspects of Financial Gerontology (1992), co-author of Can You Afford to Retire? (1992), and was Senior Consulting Editor to the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology (1995). He is co-chair of the AGHE Task Force on Business and Aging, a member of the Health Confidence Survey Advisory Board of the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
His over 200 publications have appeared in such journals as: Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Gerontology, American Political Science Review, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Financial Service Professionals, Generations, Journal of Behavioral Economics, and The Gerontologist. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, CBS News, NPR’s All Things Considered, and other media.
Dr. Cutler was the Keynote Speaker at the 2004 Annual Meeting of British Society of Gerontology in London, and at the 2005 National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association in Chicago. He won a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Helsinki University (1972) and to Glasgow University (1988). In 1979-81, on leave from USC, he was a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.
With a foot in both sides of Financial Gerontology, Dr. Cutler is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the Employee Benefit Research Institute. He earned his doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University.
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