President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy

Overview

The President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (the Council) was created on January 22, 2008. The Council’s purpose is to help keep America competitive and assist the American people in understanding and addressing financial matters. Each member of the Council represents an industry involved with the delivery of financial education to American citizens. Some of the Council activities include working with the public and private sector to help increase financial education efforts for youth in school and for adults in the workplace, increasing access to financial services, establishing measures of national financial literacy, conducting research on financial knowledge and helping strengthen public and private sector financial education programs.

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President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy - Members

• Mr. Ted Beck , National Endowment for Financial Education
• Mr. John Bryant , Operation HOPE, Inc. (Vice Chairman)
• Mr. Theodore Daniels , Society for Financial Education and Professional Development
• Vice Admiral (retired) Cutler Dawson , Navy Federal Credit Union
• Dr. Robert Duvall , National Council on Economic Education
• Dr. Tahira Hira , Iowa State University
• Mr. Jack Kosakowski , Junior Achievement USA
• Ms. Sharon Lechter , Lechter Development Group
• Dr. Robert Lee , FreshMinistries, Inc. 
• Ms. Laura Levine , Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
• Mr. David Mancl , Office of Financial Literacy of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
• Mr. Don McGrath , Bancwest Corporation
  
• Ms. Janet Parker , Society of Human Resource Management
• Mr. Ignacio Salazar , SER-Jobs for Progress National, Inc.
  
• Mr. Charles Schwab , Charles Schwab Corporation (Chairman)

President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy - Reference Materials

• President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy Annual Report to the President
• President's Advisory Council's Executive Summary for the Annual Report to the President

THE COUNCIL’S MEETINGS

The next meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy will take place on November 3, 2009 , at 10:00 a.m. at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC. For more details, please click on "Event Registration".  

Event Registration

Previous Meetings

INITIATIVES

MoneyMath: Lessons for Life

National Financial Literacy Challenge

Community Financial Access Pilot

Last Updated: October 16, 2009