Head of TIAA Institute

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.

Surya sits on the board of the Wharton Pension Research Council, the advisory councils of Georgetown Center for Retirement Research, the Stanford University Center on Longevity, the Retirement Research Center of the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association (DCIIA), the National Center to Reframe Aging (GSA). He also served on the board of the MA/NH Chapter of the U.S. Alzheimer’s Association. In 2021, Surya received The President’s Volunteer Service Award via AmeriCorps for his commitment to strengthen communities.

Surya often speaks at high-level forums and is frequently cited in the media. They include the United Nations Silver Economy Forum, the World Economic Forum, Tokyo G20 Summit on Aging and Financial Inclusion, White House Conference on Aging, Testimony to the US Congress, National Governors Association, Dementia Forum X in Stockholm, World Health Organization Convening on Healthy Aging in Geneva, and the OECD roundtable at Oxford University. He also serves on the World Economic Forum Longevity Economy Initiative and has spoken on these topics at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, London Business School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Surya joined 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 at Bain & Co.

Surya holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in mechanical engineering from Drexel University. He lives with his family in Brookline, Massachusetts.