G53 Network Members

The G53 Network comprises a diverse group of researchers from all over the world with a track record of research excellence and promoting financial literacy and personal finance. Our members are appointed as Research Fellows or Research Associates, depending on their seniority in the field, the volume of research published on financial literacy and personal finance, and the impact they have had on the field.

Rob Alessie

Professor of Micro-econometrics
University of Groningen

Johan Almenberg

State Secretary for Financial Markets
Ministry of Finance, Sweden

Sandro Ambuehl

Assistant Professor for Behavioral Economics of Financial Markets  
University of Zurich

Anders Anderson

Associate Professor
Stockholm School of Economics

Research Fellow
Senior Advisor to the Swedish House of Finance

Marco Angrisani

Senior Economist
USC Center for Economic and Social Research
Assistant (Research) Professor of Economics            
University of Southern California

Carmela Aprea

Chair of Economic and Business Education
Co-director, Mannheim Institute of Financial Education (MIFE)
University of Mannheim

Adele Atkinson

Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing
University of Birmingham

Former Head of Financial Education
OECD

B. Douglas Bernheim

Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics
Stanford University

Douglas Bernheim

Milo Bianchi

Professor of Finance
Toulouse School of Economics

Director
FIT-IN Initiative

Laura Bottazzi

Professor of Economics         
University of Bologna

Martin Brown

Director
Study Center Gerzensee

Adjunct Professor of Financial Economics
University of St. Gallen

Tabea Bucher-Koenen 

Head of International Finance and Financial Management
ZEW

Chair of Financial Markets
Co-director, Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE)
University of Mannheim

Jeremy Burke

Senior Economist
Center for Economic and Social Research
University of Southern California

Riccardo Calcagno

Professor of Finance and Financial Intermediation  
Polytechnic University of Turin

Taha Choukhmane

Assistant Professor of Finance
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert L. Clark

Professor of Economics
Poole College of Management
North Carolina State University

Francesco D’Acunto

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor of Finance
A. James Clark Chair in Global Real Estate
Director of Research, Steers Center
Georgetown University

Philippe d’Astous

Associate Professor of Finance          
HEC Montreal

Kenneth De Beckker

Assistant Professor of Finance
Open University

Bernadene de Clercq

Professor of Taxation
University of South Africa

Kristof De Witte

Professor of Education Economics and Political Economy
Program Director, Master in Economic Education
Director, Leuven Economics of Education Research (LEER)
KU Leuven

Maria Demertzis

Leader, ESF
The Conference Board Europe

Part-time Professor of Economic Policy
Florence School of Transnational Governance
European University Institute

Dave Fernandez

Senior Fellow, Center for Financial & Monetary Economics
School of Economics
University of the Philippines

Jill Fisch

Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics
Carey Law School
University of Pennsylvania

Elsa Maria Fornero

Professor of Economics
University of Turin
Scientific Coordinator, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP)

Former Italian Minister of Labour, Social Policies and Equal Opportunities

Veronica Frisancho

Chief Economist
CAF, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Dimitris Georgarakos

Team Lead Economist
European Central Bank

Visiting Professor of Economics
Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow

Paul Gerrans

Professor of Finance  
The University of Western Australia

Melody Harvey

Assistant Professor of Consumer Science
School of Human Ecology
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Hung

Section Chief, Decision-making and Behavioral Studies
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Megan Hunter

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Carroll School of Management
Boston College

Howell E. Jackson

James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Tim Kaiser

Professor of Economics
Head of the Department of Business and Economics
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

Panu Kalmi

Professor of Economics
School of Accounting and Finance   
University of Vaasa

Arie Kapteyn

Professor (Research) of Economics
Director, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR)
University of Southern California

Punam Anand Keller

Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management
Faculty Director, Center for Business, Government & Society
Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth

Adam Leive

Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California-Berkeley

Anna Lo Prete

Associate Professor of Economics     
University of Turin

Melanie Lührmann

Professor of Economics         
Royal Holloway, University of London

Annamaria Lusardi

Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute For Economic Policy Research
Professor, by courtesy, of Finance
Founder & Academic Director, Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Former Director, Italian Financial Education Committee

Lukas Menkhoff

Professor of Economics
Humboldt-University of Berlin

Head of the Department of International Economics
DIW Berlin

Pierre-Carl Michaud

Professor of Economics
Director, Retirement and Savings Institute
Holder, Jacques-Parizeau Research Chair in Economic Policy
HEC Montreal

Olivia S. Mitchell

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Executive Director, Pension Research Council
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Senior editor, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

Gary R. Mottola

Research Director      
FINRA Investor Education Foundation

Anita Mukherjee

Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance
Richard G. and Julie J. Diermeier Professor in Business
Wisconsin School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gianni Nicolini

Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Luis Oberrauch

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

Noemi Oggero

Assistant Professor of Economics      
University of Turin

Stefan Palan

Associate Professor of Finance
Head, Institute of Banking and Finance
University of Graz

Managing Director
Society for Experimental Finance

Editor-in-chief
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Georgios Panos

Professor of Finance  
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

Alberto G. Rossi

Hachigian Family Professor of Finance
Director, AI, Analytics & Future of Work Initiative
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University

Francesco Saita

Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions 
Director Financial Education Research Unit, Baffi CAREFIN Centre
Bocconi University

Alessia Sconti

Postdoc Researcher
Bocconi University

Postdoc Researcher
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

Visiting Scholar
Stanford University

Michael E. Staten

Bart Cardon Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Career Development
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics  
The University of Arizona

Andrea Sticha

Research Director, Initiative for Financial Decision-Making
Deputy Academic Director, Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Jialu L. Streeter

Executive Director
Senior Research Scholar
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Stanford University

Marco Trombetta

Professor of Accounting        
IE Business School

Editor-in-chief, Journal of Accountancy and Public Policy

Peter Tufano

Baker Foundation Professor
Harvard Business School

Emeritus Professor
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford

Carly Urban

Professor of Economics
Montana State University

Wilbert van der Klaauw

Director, The Center for Microeconomic Data
Economic Research Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Maarten van Rooij

Senior Economist       
Dutch Central Bank

Michael Weber

Associate Professor of Finance
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Tobias Wekhof

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

Joachim Winter

Professor of Economics
University of Munich

Paul Yakoboski

Senior Economist       
TIAA Institute

Joanne Yoong

Visting Full Professor
National University of Singapore

Visiting Faculty
Singapore Management University

Fellow
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Founder
Research for Impact Singapore

Bilal Zia

Head of Data Science & Analytics
Duolingo