Paul Clitheroe AM
Chairman, The Australian Government Financial Literacy Board
Executive Director, ipac securities
Paul Clitheroe is one of Australia's leading media commentators on financial issues and is renowned for his ability to explain complex money issues in plain English. His books have sold more than 600,000 copies. He is a regular radio commentator and writes weekly newspaper columns.
Mr Clitheroe is Executive Director of ipac securities, a company he helped to found in 1983. Since that time ipac has expanded from a one-room office into a business that manages more than $8 billion for clients, and since 2003 has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings. He hosted the Channel 9 Money program for a decade. He is also Chairman and chief commentator of Money magazine.
Mr Clitheroe was Vice President of the Financial Planners Association (FPA) in 1993 and President in 1994. He is the Chairman of Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drink Driving (RADD), a Certified Financial Planner, and a Fellow of the Securities Institute. He has won an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Financial Planning Association and three IFA Magazine Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Mr Clitheroe completed his Bachelor of Arts at the University of NSW.
Mr Clitheroe was Chairman of the Consumer and Financial Literacy Taskforce.1
1. In February 2004, Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan announced the formation of a high-level Consumer and Financial Literacy Taskforce to develop the first ever national strategy for consumer and financial literacy, targeting all Australians. The Taskforce released a discussion paper, Australian Consumers and Money, in June 2004. The Australian Government accepted the Taskforce recommendation to establish a central body to work on financial literacy, and established the Financial Literacy Foundation in June 2005.