President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy

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Overview

The President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (the Council) was created on January 22, 2008 by President George W. Bush. 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. The President and the Secretary of the Treasury have tasked the Council to work with the public and private sector to help increase financial education efforts for youth in school and for adults in the workplace, increase access to financial services, establish measures of national financial literacy, conduct research on financial knowledge and to help strengthen public and private sector financial education programs.

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.
Ms. Mary Schapiro , Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Mr. Charles Schwab , Charles Schwab Corporation (Chairman)

President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy - Meetings

The President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy will convene its fifth meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, in the Cash Room of the Main Department Building, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting will be open to the public. To find out how to RSVP for this meeting please click on the following link: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-22941.pdf .

President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy - Upcoming Activities

The National Financial Literacy Challenge will be offered to high school students Nov. 3-26, 2008.

For more information, please visit http://flc.treas.gov/index.htm