Singapore, 13 February 2023: The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards (MAIAs), the only global awards dedicated to “Making Money Better”, has announced the latest line-up of judges for the 2023 awards, consisting of ten more money-awareness thought-leaders from all over the world, representing the very best of financial literacy, inclusion and education.

• Ali Thompson, Chair of Manan Trust, former head of Asia for First State Investment Managers
• Dan Liebau, Founding Chairman of Lightbulb Capital
• Dave Fernandez, Director of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management University
• Els Lagrou, Former Senior Policy Analyst for Business and Finance at the OECD
• Emmanuel Asuquo, TV Financial Advisor and Senior Partner at Belvedere Wealth Management
• Ka Ming Lim, CEO and Co-Founder at MoneyFitt
• Kalpana Fitzpatrick, Senior Digital Editor of MoneyWeek, and Author of “Invest Now”
• Laura Diaz Zea, Principles for Responsible Banking at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
• Lawrence Linker, Chief Executive Officer of XD Academy
• Marc Fancy, Executive Director, Prudence Foundation, creators of Cha-Ching, winners of a MAIA in 2022

This second round of announced judges further reflects the broad reach of The MAIAs. From global organisations like the UN and OECD through to journalists and influencers, fund managers and fintech founders, the MAIAs are on a mission to publicize the best work being done to make money better.

MAIA co-founder and experienced financier Michael Gilmore said “This year, we hope to see many more solutions coming from all over the world, and that’s why we are so grateful to have judges with an even wider range of experience. Entries will be open to three broad categories of applicants – individual, non-profit organisations and for-profit companies – because we want to see the best ideas, whether they come from a charity, a fin-tech start-up or an influencer.”

The MAIAs website opened for new award entries at the beginning of January 2023, with entries already streaming in from around the world. The inaugural awards were held online in May 2022, and attracted more than 150 entries from all over the world, with winners hailing from the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Dubai and Peru among others.

Trudi Harris, co-founder of the MAIAs commented, “People all over the world want to know how to survive this cost-of-living crisis, and prepare themselves better for any future crisis to come. Many of the award-winners from this year proved that we can do exactly that, and so many of the other winners offered great solutions, from apps, to courses to books and videos. We hope we will see even more ideas this year.”

About the MAIAs:
Founded by Gilmore and Harris, the MAIAs were devised as the first global body aiming to solve the problem of weak financial literacy experienced all over the world, by finding and celebrating the best solutions aimed at ‘making money better’ for people.

Contact: Trudi Harris at trudi@www.maiawards.org or Michael Gilmore at michael@www.maiawards.org to discuss the MAIAs or for interviews about the problems weak financial literacy is causing, and the emerging solutions.