Lea Paine Highet is a Managing Member and Principal at Douglass Winthrop Advisors, LLC, an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor headquartered in New York, that provides wealth and asset management services to individuals, families, trusts and endowments. She chairs the firm’s wealth management group and counsels clients on all aspects of their planning with a particular focus on working with multi-generational families. Paine Highet is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® practitioner and a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners). 
 
She is on the board of the Open Space Institute, a national conservation leader, and the Adirondack Foundation, a community foundation dedicated to building more equitable communities in the Adirondacks. She also serves as treasurer of the Coby Foundation which funds projects in the textile and needle arts field. 
 
Lea graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. A graduate of an all-girls school, she has devoted her career to empowering women of all ages to become financially literate.