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Annamaria Lusardi
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by courtesy, of Finance at the Graduate School of Business
BioAnnamaria Lusardi is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Financial Freedom Initiative, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at Stanford University. She is also Professor of Finance (by courtesy) at the GSB. Previously, she was University Professor at The George Washington University and, before that, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she started her academic career. She has also taught at Princeton University, the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Booth School of Business, and Columbia Business School. She was also a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa in Finland.
One of the most cited authors in financial literacy, Lusardi is the founder and Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC), which has done pioneering work on personal finance education. She has published close to 100 articles and books, including publications in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. She is the founder and inaugural editor of the Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing, published by Cambridge University Press. She has received numerous research and policy awards around the world, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Social Security Administration. In 2017, 2021, and 2022, she was included in the Clarivate list, which recognizes exceptional research influence. She also won teaching awards at both Princeton and the University of Chicago. -
Ajay Madhok
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioAjay Madhok is a growth architect who has driven innovation from both sides—helping established organizations evolve and launching startups to challenge the status quo. His expertise lies in translating bold ideas into scalable products and high-growth platforms.
He currently serves as EVP of Business Strategy at Angel Studios and Managing Partner at the Angel Acceleration Fund. Ajay is also the co-founder of Celerity, a YC-style accelerator for story-tech ventures, and founding partner of ReViz, a creative-tech spinout enabling Gen Z to remix and co-create culturally relevant content using AI.
At Stanford, Ajay is a Distinguished Scholar at mediaX, where he researches corporate innovation and organizational resilience. His current work focuses on building “purpose-built ventures” by combining startup agility with institutional assets. He also explores decentralized trust and crypto-enabled ecosystems as drivers of next-generation economic models.
Ajay is an advisor to Playground Global and a member of the Technology Advisory Council at Harman International (a Samsung company). He has contributed to foundational digital identity protocols (XRI/XDI) and serves as Vice-Chair of the Comms Committee at Trust over IP, a Linux Foundation initiative advancing digital trust standards.
He earned his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
