Dr. Sarah Mavrinac is a Harvard-trained academic, social entrepreneur, and committed advocate of financial education. She first became involved in the financial education community in Asia while a professor at INSEAD where she served as academic sponsor of both the INSEAD Women’s Forum and the Citigroup/INSEAD Financial Education Summits in 2004 and 2005.

She also served as founder and Executive Director of the Citigroup/INSEAD Financial Education Exchange, an on-line learning platform for financial educators. In December 2006, Dr. Mavrinac left her academic career to launch and assume the presidency of aidha, a Singapore-based, social enterprise dedicated to “enriching life choice through financial education.”

For her dedication to women’s issues and to the advance of financial literacy, Sarah has earned a number of awards including the American Women’s Association’s International Woman of the Year award in 2007 and the World Economic Forum’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award for Singapore in late 2008.