Tahira K. Hira University administrator
Ames, Iowa
A
national leader in consumer economics, Tahira K. Hira, MS ’73,
PhD ’76, was among the first to recognize the need for financial
counseling for all consumers, regardless of stature, and to establish
a clinic to address this need. Fifteen years ago she started a model
program, the Family Financial Counseling Clinic, at Iowa State University,
where she now serves as assistant to the president for external relations
and executive administration. Twice she has been invited to testify
as an expert witness before U.S. Senate committees as they developed
policies on disclosure of interest rates on saving and consumer bankruptcy
processes. Because of her work with the Japan Consumer Finance Association,
the first financial counseling clinics in Tokyo and Osaka were established.
She was the founding president and executive director of the Association
for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, which honored her
with the Distinguished Fellows Award in 1996. She has also received
the Iowa State Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in 1996
and the Research Excellence Award from the Japan Society of Household
Economics in 1990. She is a Jefferson Club Fellow. Hira is married
to Labh, PhD ’75.
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A
national leader in consumer economics, Tahira K. Hira, MS ’73,
PhD ’76, was among the first to recognize the need for financial
counseling for all consumers, regardless of stature, and to establish
a clinic to address this need. Fifteen years ago she started a model
program, the Family Financial Counseling Clinic, at Iowa State University,
where she now serves as assistant to the president for external relations
and executive administration. Twice she has been invited to testify
as an expert witness before U.S. Senate committees as they developed
policies on disclosure of interest rates on saving and consumer bankruptcy
processes. Because of her work with the Japan Consumer Finance Association,
the first financial counseling clinics in Tokyo and Osaka were established.
She was the founding president and executive director of the Association
for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, which honored her
with the Distinguished Fellows Award in 1996. She has also received
the Iowa State Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in 1996
and the Research Excellence Award from the Japan Society of Household
Economics in 1990. She is a Jefferson Club Fellow. Hira is married
to Labh, PhD ’75.
