Russell Galer is an Administrator in the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD in Paris. His current work focuses on the development, organisation and regulation of occupational and personal pension plans and the role of financial institutions in those schemes. In that capacity, he also participates in and provides research support for the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS), for which the OECD is serving as the Secretariat. Mr. Galer was Senior Counsel at the Investment Company Institute, the association of U.S. mutual funds for six years, where he directed the pension team and served as liaison to federal regulators at the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Labor and to the U.S. Congress on all regulatory, legislative and policy issues relating to pensions. He was instrumental in establishing the EBRI-ICI Participant-Directed Retirement Plans Data Collection Project, and has worked extensively on governance and conflicts issues related to the administration of occupational plans. Previously, he was legal counsel at Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), where he advised the company on pension product development, plan governance and administration. He also served in the office of general counsel at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the U.S. agency insuring defined benefit plans.