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Annamaria Lusardi is the Denit Trust Chair of Economics and Accountancy at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Moreover, she is the founder and academic director of GFLEC. 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 and a BA in Economics from Bocconi University.

“Just as it was not possible to live in an industrialized society without literacy – the ability to read and write – so it is not possible to live in today’s world without being financially literate. To fully participate in society today, financial literacy is critical.” Annamaria Lusardi, Academic Director, Global Center for Financial Literacy at The George Washington School of Business


The Global Center for Financial Literacy (GCFL) is dedicated to developing and testing innovative educational programs to improve financial literacy and financial decision-making. Housed within the School of Business at George Washington University, GCFL is located in the heart of the nation’s capital. The Center’s proximity to downtown Washington, DC is one of its greatest assets.

At the most fundamental level, its location places it next door to the center of our country’s decision-making processes and to headquarters of economic institutions such as the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the White House, and the US Treasury, among others. GCFL is reflective of expertise not only in financial literacy, but also in the translational power of academic research to inform change on the macro-level, including influencing policy and changing practitioner systems.