Rebecca Glenn
Centre for Womens Economic Safety
Presenting: Responding to Economic Abuse: Opportunities for Australia, and The problem with men and money: The role of economic abuse in experiences of family violence
Rebecca Glenn founded the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) in 2020 to raise awareness of economic abuse as a form of family violence and advocate for structural and systems change to support women’s economic safety. The Centre builds on her work in domestic violence and financial wellbeing; most recently at Insight Exchange, a social change initiative of Domestic Violence Service Management where she was Assistant Director, and before that at the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) where she created the employee financial wellbeing program.Rebecca was a key member of CBA’s Domestic and Family Violence Working Group responsible for the Women’s Financial Wellbeing Guide and the Addressing Financial Abuse Guide. She also developed the bank’s first Financial Inclusion Action Plan. Prior to that she was founding CEO of not-for-profit organisation, Financial Literacy Australia. With a background in communications, Rebecca’s first job in the finance sector was as a Communications Executive with the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia.
In 2019, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship Report to investigate service responses to women experiencing or escaping economic abuse in the UK, USA and Canada.
In 2021, she was named an AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker.