Ida Rademacher leads the Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute—an internationally respected policy program dedicated to advancing a new generation of financial policies, products and services that help all people meet basic financial needs, and withstand financial shocks, while saving for long-term goals like college, home ownership and retirement. Prior to becoming executive director of FSP in 2015, Ida was the Chief Program Officer at the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED). Throughout her career, Ida has developed a reputation for building strong partnerships and teams capable of using complex data to fuel new insights and fresh thinking on effective financial services and policies. At CFED, she led partner and program development and grew vibrant policy, program, and research divisions to implement multiple cutting edge initiatives. She built multi-institutional teams to support the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Financial Well-Being Metrics Project, the Department of Health and Human Services ASSETS Initiative, and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Assessing Financial Capability Outcomes Initiative. Rademacher also led creation of Upside Down, a program examining ways the U.S. income tax code generates disparate wealth building opportunities and contributes to growing levels of wealth inequality. She was a lead researcher and author of Building Economic Security in America’s Cities and Weathering the Storm: How Have IDA Homeowners Fared in the Foreclosure Crisis. A resident of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and an avid horseback rider, Ida is the first generation in her family to attend college. She pursued postgraduate studies in economic anthropology at the University of Melbourne, Australia; holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Maryland; and a Bachelor degree in anthropology and economics from James Madison University.