Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Gail Vaz-Oxlade (born June 18, 1959) is a Jamaican-Canadian financial writer and television personality. Vaz-Oxlade hosts the Canadian television series Til Debt Do Us Part, Princess and, most recently, Money Moron. Vaz-Oxlade is also a regular columnist for Yahoo! Canada Finance. Previously, she was a regular feature writer for The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine magazine, IE: Money and MoneySense.ca, among others. Gail most recently ventured into the divorce realm by offering financially based divorce services through The Common Sense Divorce.

Career Vaz-Oxlade began her career after moving to Canada, working as an administrative assistant and later taking a job in marketing. In that role she was asked by a banking client to write a manual for its employees on its Registered Retirement Savings Plan products, which grew into Vaz-Oxlade writing all of the bank's technical materials. As part of that effort, Vaz-Oxlade urged Canadian consumers to stop using their credit cards for one week and pay cash only; as well, she urged Canadians to write to their Members of Parliament to urge changes in legislation restricting the use of credit scores in the granting of credit. Never Too Late: Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Future (HarperCollins 2010) Money-Smart Kids (HarperCollins 2011) It's Your Money: Becoming a Woman of Independent Means (HarperCollins 2011) Money Rules: Rule Your Money, Or Your Money Will Rule You (HarperCollins 2012) Saving for School: Understand RESPs, Take Control of Your Savings, Minimize Student Debt (HarperCollins 2013) Never Too Late: Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Future Revised Edition (HarperCollins 2013) Money Talks: When to Say Yes and How to Say No (2015)