Wade D. Pfau, PhD, CFA, RICP® is a professor of retirement income and the director of the Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) designation program at the American College of Financial Services in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He also serves as a principal and the director of retirement research for McLean Asset Management. He is the founder of Retirement Researcher, which is an educational resource for individuals and financial advisors on topics related to retirement income planning. He holds a doctorate in economics from Princeton University and has published more than sixty research articles in a wide variety of academic and practitioner journals. His research has been discussed in outlets including the print editions of the Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Kiplinger's, and Money magazine.Wade is a past selectee for the InvestmentNews Power 20 in 2013 and inaugural 40 Under 40 in 2014, the Investment Advisor 35 list for 2015 and 25 list for 2014, and Financial Planning magazine's Influencer Awards. In 2016, he was chosen as one of the Icons and Innovators by InvestmentNews.

He is a two-time winner of the Journal of Financial Planning Montgomery-Warschauer Editor's Award, a two-time winner of the Academic Thought Leadership Award from the Retirement Income Industry Association, and a Best Paper Award winner in the Retirement category from the Academy of Financial Services. Wade served for four years as a coeditor of the Journal of Personal Finance.