Michael W. Hodin, Ph.D. is executive director of the Global Coalition on Aging, managing partner at High Lantern Group, and a fellow at Oxford University's Harris Manchester College. From 1976 to 1980, he was legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. During this period he was also a visiting scholar at Brookings Institution on U.S. foreign economic policy. He was a senior executive at Pfizer, Inc., for 30 years, where he created and led its international public affairs and policy operations.

Hodin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and from 2010 to 2013 was adjunct senior fellow. He sits on a number of boards, including the Foreign Policy Association, the Business Council for International Understanding, the NYC Blood Center, the American Skin Association and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council for Population Ageing.