Malene Kallestrup-Lamb

Malene Kallestrup-Lamb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. She holds a PhD from the same institution and has held visiting research positions at the London School of Economics and at Bayes Business School (City, University of London). Her research spans pensions, longevity and mortality modelling, health dynamics, retirement behaviour, and forecasting, with a strong emphasis on high-quality register data and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work explores how demographic change, health inequality, and behavioural responses shape pension systems and aging societies. She has published extensively in leading journals, including Health Economics, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Econometric Reviews, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, BMJ Public Health, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and the European Actuarial Journal. She has contributed multiple book chapters to the NBER International Social Security (ISS) Project, a long-term collaborative research initiative focused on social security systems and retirement across the globe, as well as a chapter in The Danish Pension System: Design, Performance and Challenges, published by Oxford University Press. Malene is also an External Research Fellow at the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent) at Copenhagen Business School and an International Fellow at Netspar – the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement.