Benjamin W. Veghte is Director of the WA Cares Fund, the United States’ first universal long-term care insurance program in Washington State. He is a Board member of the American Society on Aging, an MIT CoLab Mel King Community Fellow, and a member of the Care Guild, a group of 125 innovators redesigning care for the 21st century. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He taught comparative social policy and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen, Germany, until 2008, and worked as a Social Policy consultant for the European Commission. Veghte was Vice President for Policy at the National Academy of
Social Insurance from 2015-18. From 2018- 2020, he led the research portfolio at Caring Across Generations.