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 – September 2017
Analyzing Kentucky's pension crisis, L.A. city/county pension & OPEB debt, latest investment returns for pension funds, and more
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Kansas Audit Offers Flawed Comparative Financing Analysis for Prison Replacement
Key questionable assumptions undermine report's findings.
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Kansas Audit Offers Flawed Comparative Financing Analysis for Prison Replacement
Key questionable assumptions undermine report's findings
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Proposed Pennsylvania DOC Contracting Tax Could Undermine, Not Help, Recidivism Reduction
Tax could divert resources from current efforts aimed at reducing recidivism, increase costs to taxpayers.
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Pension Reform Will Help Michigan Teachers
Recent pension reform legislation will improve retirement choices for future teachers, increase compensation for some recently hired teachers, and ensure the state will pay every dollar of pensions to teachers.
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Pension Reform Newsletter #37 (June 2017 edition)
Michigan's innovative teacher pension reform, Pennsylvania's major pension reform, Houston/Dallas pension reform legislation enacted, and more.
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Unions Try to Make It Harder for Local Governments to Make Pension Payments
As unfunded pension liabilities mount, California’s cities and counties are bracing for the additional contributions they’ll have to make to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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Michigan Adopts Most Innovative Teacher Pension Reform in the Nation
Changes to MPSERS reduce risk, provide choice, stabilize long-term costs, and keep promises.
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #31 (June 2017 edition)
June 2017 edition: Trump budget & privatization proposals, ATC corporatization, Arizona public safety pension reform #2, and much more.
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New Georgia Cities Demonstrate Benefits of Privatization, PPPs
Efficient and reliable services are what's most important to residents, not which sector provides them.
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Stephen Goldsmith Receives Reason Foundation’s 2017 Savas Award for Public-Private Partnerships
Former Indianapolis Mayor receives annual public-private partnership award.
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Pension Reform Newsletter – May 2017
Arizona's second public safety pension reform, South Carolina funding policy, full pension funding, and more
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Arizona Reforms Second Public Safety Pension Plan
Reform of corrections, probation officer pension plan follows on heels of 2016 police & fire pension reform, using similar collaborative process.