Meet the Founder

JONATHAN CLEMENTS (1963-2025) founded HumbleDollar in late 2016. He also authored of a fistful of personal finance books, including My Money Journey and How to Think About Money, and the soon to be released Money and Me.

Jonathan started writing his WSJ column at age 31.

Jonathan spent almost 20 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he was the newspaper’s personal finance columnist. Between October 1994 and April 2008, he wrote 1,009 columns for the Journal and for The Wall Street Journal Sunday. He then worked for six years at Citigroup, where he was Director of Financial Education for Citi Personal Wealth Management, before returning to the Journal for an additional 15-month stint as a columnist. The recipient of several prestigious journalist awards, Jonathan also appeared on numerous podcasts.

An avid bicyclist, Jonathan was born in London, England, and graduated from Cambridge University. He worked for Euromoney magazine in London before moving to the New York area in 1986. He lived in Philadelphia with his wife Elaine, close to his daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. Prior to joining the Journal in January 1990, he covered mutual funds for Forbes magazine. Jonathan also wrote a novel, ten personal finance books, and contributed to six others.

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