Annamaria Lusardi

Annamaria Lusardi is the Denit Trust Endowed Chair of Economics and Accountancy at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Moreover, she is the founder and academic director of GWSB’s Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Previously, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she taught for twenty years. She has also taught at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Columbia Business School. From January to June 2008, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Prof. Lusardi has also won numerous research and other awards. The more recent ones include the Kahneman Lecture at the 2019 annual meeting of economic psychology and behavioral economics (IAREP/SABE), the 2018 Ketchum Prize from FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the 2018 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship, the 2017 Skandia Research Award on Long-Term Savings (awarded in Sweden), the 2015 Financial Literacy Award from the International Federation of Finance Museums (awarded in China), the 2014 William A. Forbes Public Awareness Award from the Council for Economic Education, the 2013 William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award from the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and the National Numeracy Network’s inaugural 2012 Steen Award. In 2018, she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration) from the University of Vaasa in Finland

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Denit Trust Endowed Chair of Economics and Accountancy. The George Washington University School of Business

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Consumer Behavior in Financial Markets 2020 Annamaria Lusardi, George Washington “The P-Fin Index: Four Years of Data to Understand Personal Finance in America”

How did the personal finances of Americans look like before the pandemic? Hear Annamaria Lusardi discuss key findings on how to understand personal finance in America. Annamaria Lusardi is the Professor of Economics and Accountancy at The George Washington University School of Business, where she also serves as the Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Professor Lusardi is widely regarded as one of the founders of the field of financial literacy, which studies how financial knowledge interacts with behaviours. She has also won numerous research awards, one of which is the Swedish Skandia Award for long-term savings in 2017.