Annamaria Lusardi

Career

After graduating from Princeton, Lusardi taught economics at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Columbia Business School. She also taught at Dartmouth College since 1992 as an Associate Professor of Economics. In 2006, Lusardi became a Professor Economics at Dartmouth. From 2009 to 2019, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. In 2010, Lusardi began working at the George Washington School of Business where she is a chair professor. Since 2014, Lusardi has served as the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at the School of Business. Lusardi is the director of the George Washington University Financial Literacy Center, a joint initiative between Dartmouth College, the RAND corporation, and the Wharton School. In 2014 she was elected chair of the Research Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Network on Financial Education.

While Lusardi is an economist by training, she views economics as the foundational discipline underpinning personal finance, with personal finance representing a specialized application of economic principles focused on individual decision-making and financial well-being.

Lusardi served as the faculty advisor to the office of Financial Education of the U.S. Treasury from September to December in 2009. Additionally, Lusardi testified to the lack of financial capability and literacy among Americans and the necessity of financial education in high schools before the U.S. Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Italy also sought Lusardi's advice. In 2017, Lusardi was appointed as the director of the Committee for Financial Education.