As research director for the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, Keith Brainard collects, prepares and distributes to NASRA members news, studies and reports pertinent to public retirement system administration and policy. NASRA members are the directors and administrators of 82 statewide public retirement systems in the United States. Combined, these systems hold assets of more than $2 trillion in trust to fund pension and other benefits for most of the nation’s 22 million working and retired employees of state and local government.

Mr. Brainard is co-author of the “Governmental Plans Answer Book, Second Edition, and he created and maintains the Public Fund Survey, an online compendium of public pension data sponsored jointly by NASRA and the National Council on Teacher Retirement. Keith created the State & Local Pension Exchange, predecessor to the Public Fund Survey and recipient of the Award for Excellence in Government Finance from the Government Finance Officers Association. He has discussed public pension issues with federal, state, and local policymakers; public pension trustees; and on broadcast television and radio.

Mr. Brainard previously served as manager of budget & planning for the Arizona State Retirement System and he provided fiscal research and analysis for the Texas and Arizona legislatures. He has a master’s degree from the University of Texas-Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Keith Brainard
Research Director
National Association of State Retirement Administrators
PO Box 980
Georgetown, TX 78627-0980
keithb@nasra.org
512-868-2774
www.nasra.org