Ten Power-player Women to Judge The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards 2023
London, 2 November 2022: The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards, the global awards dedicated to ‘Making Money Better’, has announced the first line-up of judges for the 2023 awards, consisting of ten leading women from the fields of financial education, influence and inclusion.
MAIA co-founder Trudi Harris, a marketing expert specialising in causes and creativity, said “Our first round of judges reflects our global outlook and broad reach at The MAIAs: from academics to ‘finfluencers’, everyone is invited.
“For our second iteration of the awards, we’re particularly keen to ensure women are well represented on the judging panel. We know that women display lower levels of financial literacy across all income levels and countries – often for reasons of confidence, accessibility and inclusion as much as education – and our power-player female judges are all well-placed to help highlight and address this disparity.”
2023 judges include:
- Adele Atkinson, Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing, University of Birmingham, UK
- Aimée Allam, Executive Director of Financial Times Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign, UK
- Annamaria Lusardi, Professor of Economics and Accountancy at George Washington University, Founder of Global Financial Literacy Excellence Centre, USA
- Helen James, CEO Europe for advertising agency, Crispin Porter Bogusky, UK
- Lacey Filipich, Founder and Author of Money School, Australia
- Marilyn Lydia Pinto, Founder of KFI Global, United Arab Emirates
- Mathura Kannan, Financial influencer and Author, Founder of Ascendance, Malaysia
- Nanette Medved-Po, Founder and Chairperson at HOPE and Plastic Credit Exchange, The Philippines
- Olamide Majekodunmi, Financial influencer, Founder of Allthingsmoney, UK
- Yanely Espinal, Financial Influencer, Creator of MissBeHelpful Youtube Channel, Next Gen Personal Finance Spokesperson, USA
MAIA co-founder and experienced financier Michael Gilmore said “It is a huge honour that such respected figures have offered to devote their valuable time and expertise to helping the MAIAs build a stronger and better ecosystem for learning about money. We need to make money better, and we can only do that if we find the best examples of it being done, and spread them all over the world.”
The MAIAs announced earlier this month that its website will open for new award entries at the very beginning of next year, January 3rd, 2023. The inaugural awards were held online earlier this year, 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.
Gilmore added “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.”
Harris concluded “Families 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. One 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. The winning entries in 2022 ranged from academic research on gamifying education, to ‘How To’ videos created by a 12-year-old influencer.
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.