Meet the Committee
Money Sense helps to underscore NYSE Euronext's commitment to transparency, and the rebuilding of consumer confidence by helping consumers to become better informed on financial matters. In order to help execute this initiative, the Exchange has assembled a committee made up of some of the leading financial education experts in the country.
Tahira Hira, Ph.D.
Dr. Tahira K. Hira is executive assistant to the president at Iowa State University and a professor of personal finance and consumer economics. She has served as the associate vice provost for ISU Extension and has taught and conducted research in family financial management, investing, consumer credit, gambling and consumer bankruptcy in the United States and abroad.
She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Punjab University, Pakistan, and an M.S. in agricultural economics in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1976 in family and consumer economics from the University of Missouri.
Dr. Hira has been a member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, a member of the Iowa Student Loan Board and an external assessor at the Universiti Putra Malaysia. She has served on the Institute of the Certified Financial Planners, the Board of Standards and Practices for the Certified Financial Planners and the National Foundation for Consumer Credit.
She was the founding president of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education and both the president and vice president of finance and properties for the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is the founder of Iowa State’s Financial Counseling Clinic.
John Hope Bryant
John Hope Bryant is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, the author of “Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World” (Jossey-Bass) and adviser to Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Operation HOPE, a non-profit social investment banking organization founded after the Rodney King riots of 1992 in Los Angeles, operates in 69 U.S. communities and South Africa. It has served more than 1 million individuals, has more than 10,000 HOPE Corps volunteers, 5,000 partners from government, the community and the private sector, and has raised more than $500 million to empower the poor.
Mr. Bryant has delivered speeches at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and at Latvia University for the Latvia Presidential “Lectures by World Leaders.” He is also a young global leader for the World Economic Forum.
He has served on several corporate boards, is author of “Banking on Our Future,” a book on youth and family financial literacy, is a former goodwill ambassador to the United States for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a partner with President Clinton and his foundation in teaching financial literacy and promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Alvin Hall
Alvin Hall is a financial educator and author who has worked on Wall Street for more than 25 years.
For five years on the BBC, he was the host of the award-winning series “Your Money or Your Life,” on which he offered practical financial and psychological advice about how people can address their money problems.
Hall has also been the host of programs on current events and contemporary art for BBC Radio 4. His radio program “Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom” won the Wincott Foundation Press and Broadcasting Award for the best radio program for 2006.
Among the books Hall has written are “You and Your Money: It’s More than Just the Numbers,” “Your Money or Your Life,” “What Not to Spend” and “Getting Started in Stocks.” His children’s book, “Show Me the Money,” has won numerous awards and has been published in nearly 20 foreign languages.
Hall lives in New York City, where he teaches classes about the investment markets for securities regulatory organizations, financial services companies and information and technology vendors. He is a member of the board of trustees at Bowdoin College, from which he earned his B.A.
Jeanne M. Hogarth
Jeanne Hogarth is the manager for the Consumer Education and Research Section of the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, which she joined in 1995.
Her previous experience includes seven years teaching high school in Ohio, a year on the extension faculty at the University of Illinois and 13 years on the consumer economics faculty at Cornell University. During her tenure at Cornell, she was responsible for community education programs related to family financial management and consumer economics through Cornell Cooperative Extension.
At the Federal Reserve Board, she is responsible for research and outreach initiatives related to consumer financial services. Her recent projects include initiatives on consumers’ use of banking services, consumer protection strategies, the effectiveness of financial education efforts, and consumer testing for comprehension and usability of disclosure notices. Hogarth coordinates the board’s consumer information materials on financial services, both on the Web and in print.
She is the author of numerous scholarly research articles as well as consumer education resources on financial management. Hogarth received a B.S. in education from Bowling Green State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in family and consumer economics from The Ohio State University.
Walter Schubert
A third generation member of the New York Stock Exchange, Walter Schubert is the founder and chief executive of The Schubert Group LLC, a global management consulting firm. He is also the founder of the Gay Financial Network (www.gfn.com), a financial information and services Web site for the LGBT community.
With more than 30 years experience in the financial services industry, and as the first openly gay member of the New York Stock Exchange, Mr. Schubert has been featured in such media as CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Examiner, Financial Times and The Industry Standard. Mr. Schubert was included in the Crain's New York Business "Technology 100," Silicon Alley Reporter’s "100 Most Powerful Internet Executives" (for three consecutive years) and was named to New York Magazine’s "The Gay List: The city's 101 most influential lesbians and gays" of 2000. Mr. Schubert was also named by the New York Daily News as one of “Fifty to Watch in 1999”.
In 2003, Mr. Schubert became a founding member of the board of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves as its chairman.
Muriel Siebert
Muriel “Mickie” Siebert is the founder, president and chief executive of Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc. She established the brokerage firm in 1967 when she became the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange.
Ms. Siebert started her career as a $65-a-week trainee in research at Bache & Co. and became an industry specialist on airlines and aerospace. She later became a partner at Finkle & Co., as well as at Brimberg & Co.
In 1977, Ms. Siebert took a leave of absence from her firm to serve five years as the superintendent of banking for New York State under Gov. Hugh Carey.
In 1999, while president of the New York Women’s Agenda – a coalition of more than 100 women’s organizations – Ms. Siebert developed a personal finance program for New York City’s public high schools.
Ms. Siebert is on the boards of the New York State Business Council, the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Friars Club, the Guild Hall and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.
In November 2002, Ms. Siebert’s autobiography, “Changing the Rules – Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick,” was published by Simon and Schuster.
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