Advisory Board Member Amit Bansal
Florida Financial Educators Council

Amit Bansal serves as the Director of the Center for Financial Health and Wellness at the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University. The center’s mission revolves around empowering individuals to make well-informed and meaningful decisions concerning their personal finances. It achieves this vision through the provision of workshops and personalized counseling on various financial matters such as budgeting, savings, investing, debt management, and more.

Advisory Board Member Amit Bansal, an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, initially gained experience in corporate banking and capital markets in New York before transitioning to his current role. Since 2018, he has been utilizing his expertise to educate students at the Spears School of Business, sharing his knowledge and passion for finance through teaching finance courses.

Amit Bansal has been a great supporter of financial literacy education for decades. Even as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Finance, he seized opportunities to conduct financial wellness seminars for Master’s students, PhD students, faculty members in Residential Life, and high school students. His directorship at the Center for Financial Health and Wellness affords him the opportunity to promote financial literacy not just to the university’s students, but also to staff and community members.

Bansal grew up in Agra, India and earned his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. He earned both a Master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering and an MBA from OSU. While earning his MBA, Bansal was an intern at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.

Amit Bansal’s participation on the Florida Financial Educators Council Advisory Board offers him yet another opportunity to contribute to the financial literacy movement in Florida, Oklahoma, and around the U.S.

Selected members of the Florida Financial Educators Council Advisory Board are individuals who support us in our commitment to widely spread financial wellness resources across the state of Florida. They share our goal to donate financial wellness programming at the community level in initiatives that can be sustained and taken to scale.

Board Members who pass the rigorous selection criteria are professionals with a demonstrated commitment to building financial wellness in their communities. Individuals with the following traits are considered: