Leonard Gilroy is Vice President of Government Reform at Reason Foundation and Senior Managing Director of Reason's Pension Integrity Project.
Under Gilroy's leadership, the Pension Integrity Project at Reason Foundation assists policymakers and other stakeholders in designing, analyzing and implementing public sector pension reforms. The project aims to promote solvent, sustainable retirement systems that provide retirement security for government workers while reducing taxpayer and pension system exposure to financial risk and reducing long-term costs for employers/taxpayers and employees. The project team provides education, reform policy options, and actuarial analysis for policymakers and stakeholders to help them design reform proposals that are practical and viable.
Gilroy and the Pension Integrity Project have provided technical assistance to several successful pension reform efforts in recent years in Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, South Carolina and other states aimed at tackling persistent pension solvency challenges.
In his role as vice president, Gilroy also leads Reason's government reform efforts, with over 18 years of experience researching fiscal management, government operations, infrastructure public-private partnerships, government contracting, and urban policy topics. He also regularly consults with federal, state and local officials on ways to improve government performance and efficiency.
Gilroy has a diversified background in policy research and implementation, with particular emphasis on competition, government efficiency, transparency, accountability, and government performance. Gilroy has testified before Congress on several occasions and has testified on pension reform before the Arizona, Florida, Michigan, and Texas legislatures. Gilroy works closely with state and local elected officials across the country in efforts to design and implement market-based policy approaches, improve government performance, enhance accountability in government programs, and reduce government spending.
Gilroy's articles have been featured in such leading publications as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Examiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee, and The Salt Lake Tribune. He has also appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business, CNBC, National Public Radio and other media outlets.
Prior to joining Reason, Gilroy was a senior planner at a Louisiana-based urban planning consulting firm. He also worked as a research assistant at the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech. Gilroy earned a B.A. and M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Tech.
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Pension Reform Newsletter – August 2016
Pension divestment, the "new normal," accounting rules and U.S. public pension risk-taking, pension investment in infrastructure and more
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For Pensions Systems, Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results
The unions and state leaders failing to grapple with these issues are ultimately jeopardizing the retirement security of their own members and fellow government workers.
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Pension Reform Newsletter – July 2016
Update on the Funding of State and Local Pensions, Overview of Major Pension Reforms, Common Pension Funding Practices Raise the Risks of Severe Underfunding, and more
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #25 (June 2016 edition)
June 2016 edition: pension reform, managed lanes, criminal justice reform, estate taxes, and more
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Pension Reform Newsletter – June 2016
Arizona Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Public Safety Pension Reform, Exceptional Investment Returns Likely to End, New GASB Disclosures Allow More Accurate Revaluation of Pension Debt, and more
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Eva Moskowitz Receives Reason Foundation’s 2016 Savas Award for Public-Private Partnerships
Success Academy Charter Schools founder receives annual public-private partnership award
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Pension Solution Blooms in the Desert
Arizona public safety pension reform a model for government, union collaboration on solutions
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #24 (March 2016 edition)
March 2016 edition: pension reform, PPP toll road bankruptcies, urban containment, and more
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #23 (February 2016 edition)
February 2016 edition: Arizona public safety pension reform, ATC reform, water policy, and more