Dr. Mara Catherine Harvey

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The idea
Financial literacy is stagnating in almost every country in the world, yet money worries are a leading cause of increased mental health problems worldwide. We need to break this cycle and equip the next generation with the financial skills they need. Schools alone cannot solve this problem: Parents are the most influential role models, so we need to equip them with all the knowledge and tools they need.
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The conviction
Financial literacy is a life skill – and attitudes about money are largely shaped at age seven for life. For girls, gaining financial knowledge and financial confidence is doubly important to understanding and overcoming gender economic gaps across the life cycle. This is where we need to start to advance equality.
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The goal
Make parents the best role models for their children so they grow up with the financial literacy they need for life and understand the impact our daily money decisions have on their lives, society and the world.
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Looking to the future
We are becoming the comprehensive Financial Parenting platform as a one-stop store, providing parents and close relatives with everything they need to raise financially literate children (ages 3 and up), whether or not the parents themselves feel very financially secure.
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The service

The platform offers access to financial education knowledge in eight easy steps. It includes everything needed for a solid financial literacy. Parents purchase a membership, which they can later sell or or pass on when their children have outgrown the learning.

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dr. Mara Catherine Harvey

With over 25 years of leadership experience in international wealth management working with billionaire families, Dr Mara Catherine Harvey combines strategic insight, deep financial expertise, and social commitment. Trained at Fribourg University and Harvard, she holds a doctorate with highest honours in Political Economy. As a former private banking CEO and Supervisory Board Member, she championed future-oriented wealth management at the intersection of impact finance, generational wealth transfer, financial inclusion and digitisation, while driving social and digital innovation across the financial industry on a global scale.

Mara is internationally acclaimed, a published author, award-winning changemaker, and founder of smartwaytostart.com, a financial literacy platform for parents and kids (5-10y) on money and ethics. Her children’s book on the 17 SDGs has been endorsed and published by the United Nations.

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