Ida Rademacher

Ida Rademacher is a vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of its Financial Security Program, where she and her team probe financial challenges facing US households and shape market and policy innovations to improve financial security. Previously, she was chief program officer at Prosperity Now (formerly CFED), where she created a team that led the Consumer Financial Well-Being Metrics Project and led the creation of Upside Down, a program examining disparate wealth-building opportunities generated by the US income-tax code. Earlier in her career, Rademacher led research and evaluation projects at the Aspen Economic Opportunities Program and the Academy for Educational Development Center for Behavioral and Evaluation Research.