David Callund

David Callund is an internationally recognised expert in retirement provision, with over 40 years' experience as a pension consultant in both the public and private sectors.

He has worked with governments and companies in more than fifty countries across six continents and has advised extensively on the assessment and financing of pension liabilities, appropriate andrelevant legal forms, the need for fiscal encouragement and consistency, demographic and macroeconomic forecasts, and the need for applied professional and technical skills, as they relate to state and non-state pension systems. He has been a Chief Technical Adviser for the ILO, and advised the European Commission in its efforts to create cross-border occupational pension funds.

David commenced his career in the late 1950s and was a pioneer in the comparison of state and non-state pensions in Europe, focusing on efficient methods of financing pension liabilities and the accumulation of reserves. In the 1960s and 1970s he applied these skills to the financing of employee benefits for multinational corporations, before establishing Callund & Company Ltd (later Callund Consulting) in 1975. In 1978, he was appointed special adviser to the Chilean government on pension reform, and has built the company's public policy practice from this base. He continues to advise numerous governments on pensions and social security reform.

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