Surya Kolluri is Head of TIAA Institute and is recognized as a thought leader in retirement and healthy aging research. The TIAA Institute is a think-tank within TIAA, and conducts cutting-edge research in the areas of financial and longevity literacy, lifetime income, retirement plan design and behavioral finance for higher education, healthcare and the broader non-profit and for-profit sectors. He has been leading the effort to connect the domains of health and wealth through research, convenings and initiatives.
Surya sits on the board of the Wharton Pension Research Council and the advisory councils of the Stanford University Center on Longevity, the Georgetown Center for Retirement Research and the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA). He also serves on the World Economic Forum Longevity Economy Initiative Steering Committee. In 2021, Surya received The President's Volunteer Service Award via AmeriCorps for his commitment to strengthen communities.
Surya frequently speaks at high-level forums and is regularly cited in the media. Notable engagements include the the White House Conference on Aging, Testimony to the US Congress, World Economic Forum, the United Nations Silver Economy Forum, Tokyo G20 Summit on Aging and Financial Inclusion, OECD workshop on Healthy Workforce and the Oxford University roundtable on Longevity. He has also spoken on these topics at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Brown, Wharton, and the London Business School.
Surya joins the TIAA Institute from Bank of America, where he spent 16 years, most recently as managing director of the Retirement Research and Insights team. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in corporate strategy consulting, first at A.T. Kearney and then Bain & Co.
