Mariana Trujillo

Mariana Trujillo is a policy analyst with Reason Foundation's Pension Integrity Project. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from George Mason University. Before joining Reason Foundation, she worked in Treasury Market Risk at JP Morgan, the Mercatus Center, and the Cato Institute.

Trujillo’s research has examined the efficacy of common practices in public pensions. In a recent commentary, “Public pension reforms aren’t impacting public employee turnover rates,” she explored the impact on public employee recruitment and retention of moving new employees to a defined contribution plan, which was presented at the Alaska House of Representatives. In other writings, she has explored the consequences of low pension funding, discussing how Mississippi’s faulty contributions have led to credit downgrades and writing discouraging the issuance of pension obligation bonds by the city of Dallas, which was featured in The Bond Buyer. Trujillo previously moderated an expert panel on how pensions impact the recruitment and retention of public employees.