Andrea Sticha is the Research Director for the Initiative for Financial Decision-Making at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and the Deputy Academic Director at the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC). Her research is dedicated to financial literacy and wellbeing of households in the United States and around the world. As Research Director, she leads research activities, which seek to inform policy as well as develop and promote financial literacy programs. Additionally, Sticha serves as a member of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s Research Committee on Financial Literacy and she has been a lecturer at the University of Basel (Switzerland) for the past eight years.

Previously she was an Assistant Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) and spent two years at NYU Stern School of Business before joining GWSB in 2017. Her professional experience also includes the development of an online advanced studies course in financial market theory and work as an analyst conducting global equity market research at HSBC. Sticha holds a PhD in Finance as well as a MSc and BA in Business and Economics from the University of Basel (Switzerland).