American Benefits Council: About the Council

Diann Howland

Diann Howland is Vice President, Legislative Affairs for the American Benefits Council, a trade association based in Washington, D.C. representing primarily Fortune 500 companies that either sponsor or administer health and retirement benefits covering more than 100 million Americans. Diann supports the health and retirement legislative and policy staff on a variety of issues while focusing on specific topic areas of interest to our members, such as entitlement reform and retiree health. She also directs the Councilâ€™s work in the international benefits arena. Diann previously served the Council as vice president, retirement policy, from February 2004 to March 2005.

Diann brings to the Council over twenty five years of legislative experience in the Senate, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Labor. Most recently she served as Pension Policy Director for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee under then-Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY). Earlier in her career Howland was the Pension Policy Advisor to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), then-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Diann can be reached at (202) 621-1976.