James J. Donofrio

James Donofrio is the chief negotiating actuary for the Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation (PGBC). He and the talented group of actuaries

he manages in the negotiation and restructuring actuarial department

assist the PBGC in addressing risk to the security of pensions in the

private sector. He provides actuarial analyses in support of agency-initiated

and distress terminations, proposed multiemployer mergers

and transfers as well as MPRA benefit suspension, partition and facilitated

merger cases. Donofrio is currently focused on implementing

and operating the special financial assistance program for distressed

multiemployer pension plans authorized by the American Rescue Plan

Act of 2021. Prior to joining PBGC in 2010, he spent over 30 years in

pension consulting, primarily to corporate plan sponsors. Donofrio is

a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy

of Actuaries, an enrolled actuary and a graduate of Emory University

in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chief Negotiating Actuary, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Decatur, Georgia