Alimursal
(Ali) Ibrahimov

Alimursal (Ali) Ibrahimov is the founder of LearnTheMoney, a Texas-based financial literacy initiative serving justice-involved adults, community learners, and future educators across Nueces County and beyond. He combines the rigor of an institutional financial analyst with the heart of a community educator to design programs that measurably change financial behavior.

Ali is a Financial Analyst at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi and a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI). He is pursuing both a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction and an A.L.M. in Finance from Harvard, grounding his work in advanced financial theory, behavioral finance, and real-world application in communities.

His program, Second Chance Money Skills, a jail-based financial literacy workshop for justice-involved adults, won the globally renowned 2026 Money Awareness and Inclusion Award (MAIA) in the “Closing the Gender Gap” category. The MAIAs are a highly prestigious international honor designed to recognize the world’s most innovative and effective financial literacy initiatives. Selected from a highly competitive pool of projects from across the globe, this international recognition underscores the program’s profound, proven impact on economically vulnerable women and families.

Ali’s work extends into educator preparation and policy. He received a $50,000 grant from the Texas Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner’s Texas Financial Education Endowment (TFEE) to design a research-based financial literacy curriculum for future teachers, helping districts respond to Texas House Bill 27 (HB 27), which makes a stand-alone personal financial literacy course a high-school graduation requirement in Texas. This work equips pre-service teachers to deliver high-quality financial education in K–12 classrooms.

Beyond direct program delivery, Ali shapes financial education strategy at the state and regional levels, holding board member positions with the NFEC (National Financial Educators Council) Texas Advisory Board and Junior Achievement of the Coastal Bend.

His advocacy for treating financial literacy as essential public infrastructure has gained both national and local recognition. He was featured in Benzinga for his mission to build financial education where it matters most, and by KRIS 6 News, which covered his on-the-ground volunteer work teaching Second Chance Money Skills to inmates inside the Nueces County Jail. Additionally, he has shared his insights on behavioral finance and personal transformation on the TEDx stage.

In 2025, Ali was invited to the Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp at Stanford University, an intensive program that selected approximately 20 PhD students and early-career researchers from around the world to study advanced research methodology and theoretical models of financial decision-making.

Whether inside a jail, a community center, or a university classroom, Ali’s north star is simple: make high-quality financial education accessible to people who need it most, and measure impact with the same discipline used in finance and research.