Originally trained as a neuroscientist and following a brief stint as an aspiring race car driver, Preet Banerjee now excels within the world of finance. Best known as a financial panellist on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s The National and as a contributor to the Global Television Network’s The Morning Show, Banerjee inspires others to become financially empowered through his world-class expertise and unique ability to take the complexity out of money matters. He speaks about why we’re hard-wired to make bad decisions about money from time to time and, more importantly, what we can do about it.

Banerjee won the inaugural Ultimate W Network Expert Challenge, a reality show competition, which led to him being named the host of Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network. In 2012, Advisor.ca named him one of Canada’s Top 10 Financial Visionaries and he’s also a past first-place prize winner in the Portfolio Management Association of Canada’s Excellence in Investment Journalism Awards.

Banerjee is currently a consultant to the wealth management industry with a focus on the commercial application of behavioural finance research, financial technology and practice management. Previously, he worked as a financial advisor and in institutional investment sales and product development. Banerjee is a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute and holds the derivatives market specialist and financial management advisor designations.

Banerjee is also a columnist with the Globe and Mail, host of the “Mostly Money” podcast, a creator on YouTube with more than 90,000 subscribers and the author of three books with his latest titled Stop Over-Thinking Your Money: The Five Simple Rules of Financial Success.

He’s a board member with the Foundation for the Advancement of Investor Rights Canada, a former governor of the University of Toronto and founder of MoneyGaps, a hybrid-advisor financial technology start-up. He’s currently pursuing a doctorate at the Henley Business School in the U.K.