Annamaria Lusardi

Annamaria Lusardi is the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has taught at Dartmouth College, Princeton University, the University of Chicago Public Policy School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Princeton University.

Dr. Lusardi’s main area of research are financial literacy and financial education, saving, Social Security and pensions. Her book, Overcoming the saving slump: How to increase the effectiveness of financial education and saving program, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. Dr. Lusardi has won numerous research awards. Among them is a research fellowship from the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, a faculty fellowship from the John. M. Olin Foundation, and a junior and senior faculty fellowship from Dartmouth College. She is the recipient of the Fidelity Pyramid Prize, awarded to authors of published applied research that best helps address the goal of improving lifelong financial well- being for Americans. She is the Director of the new Financial Literacy Center, a joint Center of Rand, Dartmouth, and the Wharton School that started in October 2009 with the support of the Social Security Administration.

Dr Lusardi is currently working part-time for the Office of Financial Education of the U.S. Treasury. She is also the consultant to the Subgroup on the Evaluation of Financial Education Programs, International Network on Financial Education at the OECD.