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Heng Swee Keat

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies

Heng Swee Keat

Mr Heng Swee Keat is Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies.

Mr Heng chairs the tripartite Future Economy Council which oversees the on-going restructuring of Singapore’s economy, through upgrading the skills of workers and transformation of industry, to create better career prospects for Singaporeans. He leads a team to oversee the design and implementation of national strategies in areas such as skills and capabilities development, innovation and productivity as well as the internationalisation of companies.

He is also the Chairman of the National Research Foundation, which sets the direction for Singapore's research, innovation and enterprise (RIE) strategies. Mr Heng is overseeing the closer integration of Singapore’s RIE and industry transformation efforts.

Mr Heng served as Minister for Education from 2011 to 2015. He also led the year-long Our Singapore Conversation from 2012 that helped to engage more than 47,000 Singaporeans from all walks of life through dialogues.

 

He also served as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2021, overseeing ten national Budgets including an unprecedented five Budgets to support Singaporeans and businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

 

Mr Heng has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University. He also holds a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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Karin Keller-Sutter

Switzerland's Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Finance

Karin Keller-Sutter

Karin Keller-Sutter was born in 1963 and is from the Canton of St. Gallen. She attended school in Wil and Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Karin Keller-Sutter is a trained translator/interpreter and secondary school teacher. Between 1989 and 2000 she worked as a freelance translator, and also taught at a vocational school.

Karin Keller-Sutter began her political career in 1992 as a member of Wil town council. In 1996 she was elected to the cantonal parliament of St. Gallen. In 2000 she entered the cantonal government of St. Gallen where she headed the Justice and Security Department. In 2011 Karin Keller-Sutter was elected to the Council of States where she represented the canton of St. Gallen. She held the presidency of the Council of States in 2017/2018.

Prior to her election to the Federal Council, Karin Keller-Sutter held a variety of positions: chair of the board of Pensimo Management AG; president of the board of trustees of the Pensimo Investment Foundation; vice president of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies; board member of Bâloise Insurance Group and the ASGA pension fund in St. Gallen; president of the Swiss Retail Federation, and board member of the Swiss Employers Association. Between 2012 and 2016 she was also a board member of the NZZ Media Group. Following her election to the Federal Council in 2018, Karin Keller-Sutter stepped down from all of these posts.

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Adrienne A. Harris

Superintendent

New York Department of Financial Services

Adrienne A. Harris

Superintendent

Adrienne A. Harris was confirmed by the Senate as Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services on January 25, 2022.

Superintendent Harris began her career as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City representing a number of U.S. and non-U.S. based corporations in various forms of litigation and regulatory matters, before accepting a position at the United States Department of the Treasury under President Obama.

While at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris served as a Senior Advisor to both Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller, and Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin. Her work ranged from financial reform efforts to identifying solutions to the student loan crisis, analyzing the nexus between foreign investment and national security, and working to promote financial inclusion and health in communities throughout the country.

Following her time at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris joined The White House, where she was appointed as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, as part of the National Economic Council. In this role, she managed the financial services portfolio, which included developing and executing strategies for financial reform and the implementation of Dodd-Frank, consumer protections for the American public, cybersecurity and housing finance reform priorities.

After leaving the White House in January 2017, Superintendent Harris went on to serve as General Counsel and Chief Business Officer at States Title, Inc. (now DOMA), which provides a more simple and affordable closing experience for homebuyers.

Prior to joining DFS, Superintendent Harris served as a Professor and as Faculty Co-Director at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Center on Finance, Law and Policy at the University of Michigan, as well as a Senior Advisor at the Brunswick Group in Washington, D.C.

Since taking over at DFS, Superintendent Harris has taken decisive actions on defining issues such as climate change, financial inclusion, and New York’s continued leadership on digital currency regulation.

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Alison Martin

Chief Executive Officer EMEA & Bank Distribution

Zurich Insurance Group

Alison Martin

Chief Executive Officer EMEA & Bank Distribution

Alison Martin has extensive management, financial and commercial experience within the insurance sector. She was appointed chief executive officer Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and bank distribution in July 2019 and is responsible for sustainability at Zurich Insurance Group. Prior to that, she served as Group chief risk officer from January 2018 to September 2019. A qualified accountant, Ms. Martin began her career at PwC, where from 1995 to 2003 she worked with insurance clients in audit and advisory roles. She then served in leading executive positions at Swiss Re, starting in 2003 as finance director, Life & Health. Starting in January 2011 she served as group managing director of Swiss Re’s Life & Health Products Division. She was appointed Swiss Re’s head of Life & Health Business Management in 2013, a position she held until joining Zurich as Group chief risk officer-designate and a member of the Executive Committee in October 2017.

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Ashley Alder

Chair

Financial Conduct Authority

Ashley Alder

Chair

Ashley Alder became Chair of the FCA Board in February 2023.

Ashley was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong, a role he has held since 2011.

He also chaired the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

Ashley began his career as a lawyer in London in 1984 and practised in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. He was Executive Director of the SFC's Corporate Finance Division from 2001 to 2004, before returning to private practice at Herbert Smith LLP, a law firm, as Head of Asia.

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Bill Winters

Group Chief Executive

Standard Chartered

Bill Winters

Group Chief Executive

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Charles Cascarilla

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Paxos

Charles Cascarilla

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Charles Cascarilla is the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform that enables the movement of all assets in a trustworthy way. With more than 20 years of experience in financial services, Charles has a unique perspective on integrating blockchain technology with traditional systems. He co-founded institutional asset management complex Cedar Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and its venture capital subsidiary, Liberty City Ventures, in 2012.

Charles has been a leader in introducing regulatory frameworks to the blockchain industry by securing the first Trust charter for digital assets and by testifying to the US Senate and House of Representatives on the merits of this technology for the global economy. He was also a founding member of CoinCenter and the Association for Digital Asset Markets. Earlier in his career, Charles was a portfolio manager at Claiborne Capital and an analyst at both Bank of America Securities and Goldman Sachs. He serves on the board of several charities and private companies including Project ALS and The Centurion Foundation.  

Charles holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA charterholder.

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Christian Mumenthaler

Group Chief Executive Officer

Swiss Re

Christian Mumenthaler

Group Chief Executive Officer

Christian Mumenthaler started his career in 1997 as an associate at Boston Consulting Group. He joined Swiss Re in 1999 and was responsible for key company projects. In 2002, he established and headed the Group Retro and Syndication unit. Christian Mumenthaler served as Group Chief Risk Officer between 2005 and 2007 and was Head of Life & Health between 2007 and 2010. In January 2011, he was appointed Chief Marketing Officer Reinsurance and a member of the Group Executive Committee and became Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance that October. In July 2016, Christian Mumenthaler was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer.

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Clara Durodié

Chief Executive Officer

Cognitive Finance Group

Clara Durodié

Chief Executive Officer

Clara Durodié is a leading technology strategist specialising in the governance and business application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the financial services industry.

Clara advises boards, regulators and governments on best practices in the adoption, selection, and implementation of AI systems. She also mentors fintechs on product development and works with data scientists to design human-centric AI.

A former asset management professional, Clara authored “Decoding AI in Financial Services” the first book on the business and governance of AI , writes a popular weekly DecodingAI® Board Briefing, hosts a biweekly podcast DecodingAI®, and founded Cognitive Finance Institute® – the pre-eminent AI learning platform for financial services professionals. 

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Daniela Schackis

Deputy Director General

European Central Bank

Daniela Schackis

Deputy Director General

Daniela Schackis is Deputy Director General in Banking Supervision at the European Central Bank. The Directorate General SSM Governance & Operations (DG-SGO) ensures the efficient decision-making process of the Supervisory Board and its structures. DG-SGO acts as gatekeeper for new players entering the market (banks, shareholders, board members), withdraws banking licenses and investigates alleged breaches of prudential regulations. DG-SGO leads the digitalisation, integration, training, and knowledge management in Banking Supervision. Daniela joined the ECB in July 1998. She held various positions in Human Resources, Risk Management and Statistics and has always been a promoter of innovative and data-driven ways of working. Prior to the ECB, she worked at Eurostat. Daniela holds a master’s degree in economics from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 

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Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Global Policy

Circle

Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Global Policy

Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, responsible for overseeing company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. Since joining Circle in 2021, his leadership in driving market expansion, regulatory engagement, and more have been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value.

Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading policy, communications, membership and social impact. He also brings two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative. He also served as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council. Currently, he is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan 2016).

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College, is a PLD graduate of Harvard Business School, and has an MSc in risk management from NYU Stern School of Business. Outside of work, Dante enjoys speaking and commentating, such as in media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BBC, Forbes and Diplomatic Courier.

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Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair for Global Public Policy

Bloomberg

Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair for Global Public Policy

Mary L. Schapiro is the Vice Chair for Global Public Policy of Bloomberg, the global financial technology company that was founded in 1981. She has been at Bloomberg since October 2018, and also serves as a Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman.

Ms. Schapiro oversees Bloomberg’s public policy and regulatory priorities globally. Her service as the 29th Securities and Exchange Commission Chair culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC Chair, and the only person to have served as chair of the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During her four years as SEC Chair, Ms. Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rulemaking agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors and pursued aggressive enforcement of the federal securities laws.

Ms. Schapiro oversees Bloomberg’s public policy and regulatory priorities globally. Her service as the 29th Securities and Exchange Commission Chair culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC Chair, and the only person to have served as chair of the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During her four years as SEC Chair, Ms. Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rulemaking agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors and pursued aggressive enforcement of the federal securities laws.

Ms. Schapiro also serves as an advisor to Bloomberg in multiple capacities, including as the leader of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, or TCFD. The TCFD has developed and garnered widespread support for a voluntary framework for corporate disclosure of climate-related risk information to help investors, lenders, and underwriters make informed financial decisions. She is also the vice chair of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative created at the request of the UN Secretary General to work on scaling climate finance. Ms. Schapiro is also the Vice Chair for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, a practitioner-led coalition working to increase the financial sector's ambition on climate change and accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.

Before becoming SEC, Chair and working for Bloomberg, Ms. Schapiro served as chief executive officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest nongovernmental regulator of securities firms.

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Patrick Odier

Chairman of Building Bridges, President of Swiss Sustainable Finance

Patrick Odier

Chairman of Building Bridges, President of Swiss Sustainable Finance

Patrick Odier is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Lombard Odier Group since January 1st 2023 . He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd. since January 1st, 2014 until April 1st 2023. He was also Senior Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group from 2008 until 2022.

Patrick Odier joined the Lombard Odier Group in 1982 and completed his training in Zurich, New York, and Montreal, before becoming a Managing Partner in 1986. He holds an economics degree from the University of Geneva and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago.

Patrick Odier is President of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF). He is also Chairman of Building Bridges. He is member of the Board of economiesuisse (Swiss Business Federation). He was Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2009 to 2016. He is also a board member of several Swiss and international academic institutions and philanthropic organisations.

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Ravi Menon

Managing Director

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Ravi Menon

Managing Director

Mr Ravi Menon was appointed Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2011. He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance.

Mr Menon began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years in MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions. Mr Menon spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Singapore Government's Meritorious Service Medal and Public Administration (Gold) Medal, Mr Menon has served on a variety of boards in the public, private, and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, Mr Menon chairs the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System as well as Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero APAC Network Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Steering Committee. Mr Menon holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

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Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer, Securities Services & Digital

BNY Mellon

Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer, Securities Services & Digital

Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services and Digital. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee.

Securities Services includes Asset Servicing and Issuer Services, which comprises the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts businesses. As CEO of Securities Services, Roman focuses on product strategy and development to accelerate the transformation of Securities Services into a more data- and analytics-led business. He is responsible for driving end-to-end delivery of solutions to our Asset Servicing and Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts clients.

As Head of Digital, Roman sets the direction for the firm’s digital future and drives investments in our digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Roman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution.

Roman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He is a recognized author and thought leader on digital and financial services industry topics.

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Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’.From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leading Swiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 231 ambassadors, across 109 jurisdictions and disciplines.

In 2019, she was appointed as the Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, International Securities Services Association’s DLT & ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board, Salesforce’s Web3 Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, and UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council.Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including Hyperledger Foundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

She is a frequent guest lecturer at universities discussing topics from fintech to data privacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions as well as filing the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the USPTO. Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of this technology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.

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Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

UBS Group AG

Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

Sergio P. Ermotti has been Group CEO of UBS Group AG and President of the Executive Board of UBS AG since April 2023. He was already the Group CEO of the firm from 2011 to 2020. He re-joined UBS from Swiss Re, where he is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors1. Prior to joining UBS in 2011, he was at UniCredit Group where from 2007 to 2010 he served as Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking and Private Banking, prior to that he served as Head of the Markets & Investment Banking Division. Between 1987 and 2004, he held various positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the areas of equity derivatives and capital markets. He became Co-Head of Global Equity Markets and a member of the Executive Management Committee for Global Markets & Investment Banking in 2001.
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Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Urban Angehrn (1965) has been FINMA’s CEO since 1 November 2021. In this role he is responsible for the operational management of FINMA.

From 2015 to 2021 Urban Angehrn was a member of the Executive Committee and Group Chief Investment Officer of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). In this role he was responsible for the Group’s entire investment portfolio as well as for the sustainability strategy and for the operations, including digitalisation, in investment management. In addition, from 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Life Insurance Company, most recently serving as Chairman, as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Zurich Insurance Group Swiss Pension Plan from 2015.

From 2007 to 2015 Urban Angehrn was Head of Alternative Investments at Zurich, prior to that Head of Strategy Implementation and prior to that Regional Investment Manager Europe. Before that, from 2005 to 2007 he worked as Head of Allocation & Strategy in Asset Management at Winterthur (now AXA), from 1999 to 2005 at Credit Suisse First Boston in Fixed Income Derivatives Marketing and from 1994 to 1999 at JP Morgan in Fixed Income Sales and Derivatives Marketing.

Urban Angehrn holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University and a Master of Science in theoretical physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).

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Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Urban Angehrn (1965) has been FINMA’s CEO since 1 November 2021. In this role he is responsible for the operational management of FINMA.

From 2015 to 2021 Urban Angehrn was a member of the Executive Committee and Group Chief Investment Officer of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). In this role he was responsible for the Group’s entire investment portfolio as well as for the sustainability strategy and for the operations, including digitalisation, in investment management. In addition, from 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Life Insurance Company, most recently serving as Chairman, as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Zurich Insurance Group Swiss Pension Plan from 2015.

From 2007 to 2015 Urban Angehrn was Head of Alternative Investments at Zurich, prior to that Head of Strategy Implementation and prior to that Regional Investment Manager Europe. Before that, from 2005 to 2007 he worked as Head of Allocation & Strategy in Asset Management at Winterthur (now AXA), from 1999 to 2005 at Credit Suisse First Boston in Fixed Income Derivatives Marketing and from 1994 to 1999 at JP Morgan in Fixed Income Sales and Derivatives Marketing.

Urban Angehrn holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University and a Master of Science in theoretical physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).

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Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services & Digital

BNY Mellon

Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services & Digital

Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services and Digital. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee.

Securities Services includes Asset Servicing and Issuer Services, which comprises the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts businesses. As CEO of Securities Services, Roman focuses on product strategy and development to accelerate the transformation of Securities Services into a more data- and analytics-led business. He is responsible for driving end-to-end delivery of solutions to our Asset Servicing and Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts clients.

As Head of Digital, Roman sets the direction for the firm’s digital future and drives investments in our digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Roman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution.

Roman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He is a recognized author and thought leader on digital and financial services industry topics.

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Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’.From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leading Swiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 231 ambassadors, across 109 jurisdictions and disciplines.

In 2019, she was appointed as the Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, International Securities Services Association’s DLT & ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board, Salesforce’s Web3 Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, and UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council.Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including Hyperledger Foundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

She is a frequent guest lecturer at universities discussing topics from fintech to data privacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions as well as filing the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the USPTO. Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of this technology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.

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Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

UBS Group AG

Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

Sergio P. Ermotti has been Group CEO of UBS Group AG and President of the Executive Board of UBS AG since April 2023. He was already the Group CEO of the firm from 2011 to 2020. He re-joined UBS from Swiss Re, where he is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors1. Prior to joining UBS in 2011, he was at UniCredit Group where from 2007 to 2010 he served as Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking and Private Banking, prior to that he served as Head of the Markets & Investment Banking Division. Between 1987 and 2004, he held various positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the areas of equity derivatives and capital markets. He became Co-Head of Global Equity Markets and a member of the Executive Management Committee for Global Markets & Investment Banking in 2001.
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Professor Thomas J. Jordan

Chairman of the Governing Board

Swiss National Bank

Professor Thomas J. Jordan

Chairman of the Governing Board

Thomas J. Jordan is Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). He received his PhD in economics from the University of Bern in 1993. Following a three-year post-doctoral research position at the Department of Economics at Harvard University, he joined the SNB as an Economic Advisor in 1997. The University of Bern appointed him lecturer in 1998 and honorary professor in 2003, and he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel in 2017. In 2007, the Federal Council appointed Thomas J. Jordan to the position of Member of the SNB’s Governing Board. In 2010, he was appointed Vice Chairman and in 2012 Chairman of the Governing Board. He is Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Switzerland and member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel. Thomas J. Jordan represents Switzerland in the Plenary and the Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). He is also Chair of the FSB’s Standing Committee on Budget and Resources (SCBR).

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Adeline Bachellerie

Deputy Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures

Banque de France

Adeline Bachellerie

Deputy Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures

Adeline Bachellerie is Deputy Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures. She was previously in charge of the wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation programme including the tokenisation of finance and of the regulatory framework of crypto-assets, stablecoins and DeFi. PhD, graduated from Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in Economics, Adeline started her career as statistician and mostly contributed to the building of financial accounts at the Banque de France and the ECB.

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Adrian Ang

Partner

Allen & Gledhill LLP

Adrian Ang

Partner

Adrian is Co-Head of Allen & Gledhill’s FinTech Practice, and Co-Head of Allen & Gledhill’s ESG & Public Policy Practice. Adrian has been active in the FinTech sphere, contributing to policy formation and enactment of FinTech related legislation. He has advised on a variety of FinTech models including payment systems, equity and debt crowdfunding platforms, P2P lending platforms, online lending intermediary based platforms, online money transfer systems, robo-advisors, virtual stored value facility providers, initial coin offering structures, security token exchanges, digital payment token exchanges and the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Adrian is recommended as a key practitioner in several leading publications including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers FinTech, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

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Adrien Treccani

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Metaco

Adrien Treccani

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Adrien Treccani is an entrepreneur, author and, at core, a software engineer specialized in financial mathematics, confidential computing, cryptography and digital assets. A former hedge fund quant, he has been advising banks and financial institutions on distributed ledger technology for more than a decade, and in 2015 he founded Metaco, a market-leading technology company providing software infrastructure to financial and non-financial institutions looking to integrate digital assets into their business model. He now serves as the company’s CEO, being responsible for setting the strategy and overseeing the growth execution of the firm.

Adrien lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) in cryptography and the financial applications of blockchain and is a published scholar in leading international peer-reviewed finance journals. Most recently, Adrien co-authored the best-seller book ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics’, a detailed and self-contained introduction to the founding principles behind blockchain, DLTs and cryptocurrencies, for professionals operating in quantitatively oriented fields such as mathematics, computer science and banking.

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Aiaze Mitha

Digital Finance & the SDGs, Global Lead

UNDP

Aiaze Mitha

Digital Finance & the SDGs, Global Lead

Aiaze has worked in Inclusive Digital Finance / Fintech in 40+ countries and advised many financial regulators and international organizations. He is currently leading a joint UNDP/UNCDF program on digital finance innovations to accelerate financing for the SDGs. A lot of his work focuses on fintech innovations for SMEs, climate, and nature. Previously, Aiaze led a coalition of digital platforms (wealth management, e-commerce, banks, payments) harnessing AI/tech to enable greener choices for their users. Aiaze was also a Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs and was leading a global Dialogue platform seeking to align the governance of BigFintechs with the SDGs. Prior to that, Aiaze was Chief Officer at Tiaxa, a digital lending Fintech primarily in Africa but also Latin America and Asia. Aiaze also sits on the Board of several Fintech startups.

Alberto Naudon

Alberto Naudon

Board Member

Central Bank of Chile

Alberto Naudon

Board Member

ALBERTO NAUDON DELL'ORO is Board Member of the Central Bank of Chile since March 2018. Before his appointment to the Board and since September 2014, he was Director of the Research Division of this Institution.

He is a Commercial Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he received the Raúl Iver award as the best graduate among his 2000 classmates, and holds a Master's Degree and PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

He joined the Research Division of the Central Bank as an Economist in 2000, where he served as Chief Economist and then as Head of the Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting Department. In 2013, he held the position of Chief Economist at Banco de Crédito e Inversiones, where he worked for one year.

Among his academic activities he has been a professor at the University of Chile, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the University of Los Andes, and the Adolfo Ibáñez University, teaching courses in the areas of Macroeconomics, Econometrics and International Economics.

He has also researched and published several papers on monetary policy and financial issues.
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Alan Marquard

EVP, Transfer Solutions

Mastercard

Alan Marquard

EVP, Transfer Solutions

Alan is currently head of payment Transfer Solutions at Mastercard, responsible for the BillPay, Cross-Border Services and Send businesses. Alan also heads the global cross-border strategy and Mastercard’s alignment with the G20 Roadmap on enhancing cross-border payments.

 

Previously, Alan was Chief Business Development Officer of CLS, the systemically important global foreign exchange settlement utility.

 

Prior to these roles, he had a distinguished legal career as General Counsel of CLS and Barclays Africa Corporate and Investment Banking and as Global Head of Transaction Legal at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Deputy Governor

Bank of Italy

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Deputy Governor

Born in Genoa on 13 August 1961.

Member of the Governing Board and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 10 May 2019 (Presidential Decree of 3 May 2019). In this capacity, she is also a member of the Joint Directorate of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).

She sits on the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) of the European Central Bank.

Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bambino Gesù children' hospital in Rome and a member of the Advisory Board of the FinTech and InsurTech Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan.

She was previously Italy Country Manager for Barclays Bank and sat on the Boards of Directors of Monte Titoli SpA, A2A and ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanese).

She worked in Intesa Sanpaolo as Head of International Regulatory & Antitrust Affairs and as CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Eurodesk. She began her career as a lawyer at leading law firms in New York and Brussels, specializing in the fields of banking law, financial services and public utilities.

She is a member of the New York State Bar.

In Italy, she was a founder and chair of Valore D, an association that aims to help propel talented women to corporate management roles. She also founded and directed the Gemma Project, set up to support female talent within the Intesa San Paolo group.

In the course of her career, Alessandra Perrazzelli has received widespread recognition and awards for her work on diversity and inclusion, and for the promotion of technological innovation in the financial industry.

In 1986 she graduated with honours from the University of Genoa with a degree in law. In 1988 she obtained a Master of Laws in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law.

She has been an alumna of the University of Stanford Business School since 2018.

In 2021, she was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic.

Dr Alexander Bechtel

Dr Alexander Bechtel

Head of Digital Strategy

DWS

Dr Alexander Bechtel

Head of Digital Strategy

Dr. Alexander Bechtel is the Head of Digital Strategy at DWS. He has done a PhD in finance at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, including a research stay at Stanford University. Alexander still holds a position as an external lecturer for blockchain technology and monetary theory at the University of St. Gallen. Before joining DWS, Alexander was the Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Strategy at Deutsche Bank (Corporate Bank). Additionally, he has worked as an external consultant for the European Central Bank. Alexander regularly publishes articles and research on monetary policy and digital currencies. Moreover, he co-hosts one of the biggest German-speaking podcasts on digital money, called “Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll”.

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Alexander Zanker

Head ESG Analytics

LGT Capital Partners

Alexander Zanker

Head ESG Analytics

Alexander Zanker is an executive director at LGT Capital Partners. He is heading the team ESG Analytics, and responsible for LGT Capital Partners' proprietary ESG assessment tool called LGT ESG Cockpit. Alexander also is a member of the ESG committee of LGT Capital Partners.


He holds a MSc in Physics and is a CFA charterholder.

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Alexandre Kech

Head of Digital Securities

SIX Digital Exchange

Alexandre Kech

Head of Digital Securities

Alexandre Kech is Head Digital Securities at the SIX Digital Exchange. As a member of the Executive Board, Alex has full executive responsibility for the Digital Securities business vertical, including: sales and relationship management, product development, business design and ecosystem expansion.

Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC) and most recently Citi Ventures. As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. As Blockchain & Digital Asset director at Citi Ventures, he built a team to engage across the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital assets.

Alex earned a Bachelor’s degree in translation, and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology while building Onchain Custodian—putting theory to practice in real-time.

Alfonso Gomez

Alfonso Gomez

Chief Executive Officer

BBVA Switzerland

Alfonso Gomez

Chief Executive Officer

CEO of BBVA in Switzerland, the international private banking arm of the BBVA Group, a position he has held since July 2014; he is also a member of the Board of the Association of International Banks in Switzerland, a member of the Advisory Board of Cyverse, an Israeli company focused on cybersecurity, and a member of the Board of RFS, a Think Tank focused on the transformation of the financial sector.

In the three years prior to assuming this position, he worked as Director of Global Private Banking, based in New York, leading strategic projects in all the Private Banking Units of the geographical regions in which BBVA operates and before that he was Head of Private Banking for Spain and Portugal, in Madrid. From 2004 to 2008 he lived in London, where he was General Manager of Corporate Banking, Global Trade Finance and Global Clients, becoming Country Manager of BBVA UK in 2006.

Alina Yaroshchuk

Alina Yaroshchuk

Ambassador

MetaBot

Alina Yaroshchuk

Ambassador

An advocate for transformative technology and the potential of video games to shape a better world. Have dedicated four years to gaining practical experience in the educational and marketing domains. Student in Master's program "Applied Information and Data Science" at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Bachelor's degree in international legal relations.

Alokik Advani

Alokik Advani

Managing Partner

Fidelity International Strategic Ventures

Alokik Advani

Managing Partner

Alokik leads the Strategic Ventures team at Fidelity International focused on making investments in fintech companies that have some strategic relevance to Fidelity International. Some of the investments made by the team include Moneybox, Drivewealth, Moonfare, Finbourne, Smart Pension and Steeleye. Prior to Fidelity, Alokik held similar roles at Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific and Merrill Lynch in New York and London.

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Amanda Wick

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Association for Women In Cryptocurrency

Amanda Wick

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. After working at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, she left government to serve as the Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company. She briefly returned to government service when she was asked to lead the financial investigation for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. After serving on the Select Committee, she launched the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency, where she is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer. The Association was founded to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries, who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance. 

Amar Rahman

Amar Rahman

Global Head Climate Resilience - Zurich Resilience Solutions

Zurich Insurance Co Ltd

Amar Rahman

Global Head Climate Resilience - Zurich Resilience Solutions

Amar Rahman earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Baghdad in 1988. He completed his PhD in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and went on to complete two postdoctoral fellowships, one at Canterbury and the second at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). He earned an executive MBA from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) in 2011. In his role, Amar leads a team supporting customers in identifying, evaluating and improving physical and operational resilience related to natural hazards and climate change. Prior to joining Zurich Insurance in 2011 he held several roles in the civil engineering sector, specialising in large-scale infrastructure projects. He developed the natural hazards resilience service after the 2011 Thailand floods and was also the global head of the natural hazards risk engineering technical centre.

Amer Vohora

Amer Vohora

Chief Executive Officer

Ikigai Ventures GmbH

Amer Vohora

Chief Executive Officer

Amer is a third-generation family business member and coordinates the investment holdings through Ikigai Ventures in Switzerland. The approach is hands-on and active, identifying businesses that are catalysts for making an impact in their sectors. Investments are diverse; from an impact driven multi-family office, mental health to impact investments using technology such as blockchain. 

Amer has a background in finance, having spent over five years with Rothschild Bank in Zurich. He originally moved to Zurich in 2010 to join a multi-family office where he was responsible for all merchant banking. He started his career in London, where for almost a decade he was advising entrepreneurs and family businesses on private equity and M&A at First Capital and direct investments at First Ventures.

Amer studied Manufacturing and Management at Cambridge University as post-graduate and earned a Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce with Japanese from Birmingham University, which included a year on scholarship in Japan. He holds a Diploma in Accounting and Finance (ACCA) and an Investment Management Certificate (IMC) from the CFA Institute.

Amer is on the committee of Philanthropy Impact in Zurich and lectures on impact investing at the Anant University, where he has also founded the Ikigai Scholarship to help disadvantaged students.

Professor Amir Yaron

Professor Amir Yaron

Governor

Bank of Israel

Professor Amir Yaron

Governor

Professor Amir Yaron was appointed by the President of Israel as Governor of the Bank of Israel on December 24, 2018.

He is a world-renowned expert in macroeconomics, monetary economics, finance, and financial economics.

Prof. Yaron obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Tel Aviv University, and served as an officer in the unit of the Economic Advisor to the IDF Chief of General Staff. He then went abroad, where he obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He is a full professor in the Finance Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has held the Robert Morris Chair in Banking. 

Prof. Yaron has served in a number of senior leadership positions in the academic world:
  • Faculty Research Associate at NBER, and one of its research group heads on capital markets and economics.
  • President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics  (FARFE).
  • Member of the Board of the Western Finance Association.
  • Chairman of SFS Cavalcade.
  • Editor of a number of periodicals.
​His joint study with Ravi Banzal, "Risks for the Long Run: A Potential Resolution of Asset Pricing Puzzles", referred to in the literature as the "Bansal-Yaron Model", is one of the leading studies worldwide regarding the interface between macroeconomics and finance. The paper was reviewed in the writings of the Nobel Prize Scientific Committee in 2013, and led to the Governor winning the prestigious Stephen Ross Award in 2019.​

Professor Yaron has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, MIT, the University of Chicago, Goethe University, the Bank of Israel, CEMFI-Spain, IIES-Sweden, and the IMF. 
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Amira Karim

Head of Public Policy - Payments & Financial Services

Amazon

Amira Karim

Head of Public Policy - Payments & Financial Services

Amira is the Public Policy Lead in Payments and Financial Services for Amazon, and has close to two decades of experience in digital policy engagement across public and private sectors. Previously, she has held senior roles at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she has also acted as the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Specialist. Prior to joining Amazon, she worked as Head of Public Policy in Asia Pacific at Stripe, where she was responsible for building a government relations and advocacy strategy to accelerate Stripe’s global expansion.

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Amit Gupta

Group Chief Executive Officer

Ecosystm Group

Amit Gupta

Group Chief Executive Officer

Amit believes in the power of digital and communities to an ecosystem, and it is that belief that brought him to found two successful enterprises he currently runs - Ecosystm, a next generation Technology Research and Advisory Platform, and its spinoff Kampd, a professional communities led social learning platform.

Amit has been a tech entrepreneur since founding his first company at 23, and has also held regional positions at firms including IDC and Current Analysis (now Global Data).

Driven by his passion for innovation, Amit is an active Angel investor and sits on the advisory board of several digital start-ups; he is the Chair of TiE Singapore and a Global Board of Trustees, TiE, the world’s largest entrepreneur organisation; has been an Advisor to the New Zealand government, and a global brand ambassador for the Singapore FinTech Festival by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Amit holds a Master’s in Engineering Management (Hons) from the University of Auckland.

Amitabh Khandelwal

Amitabh Khandelwal

General Manager, Department of Payment and Settlement Systems

Reserve Bank of India

Amitabh Khandelwal

General Manager, Department of Payment and Settlement Systems

Amitabh is a career central banker with more than 20 years of service in RBI. He is working in the Department of Payment and Settlement Systems for last six years. He is looking after cross-border projects using fast payment system, namely Unified Payments Interface (UPI). He was the nodal person from RBI for UPI-PayNow connectivity between India and Singapore.


His experience in other functions of RBI includes Forex Management and Investments, Currency Management, Banking, and Human Resources. He also has an experience of working at senior levels in State Government. He has represented RBI in various national and international fora. He holds an MBA in Banking & Finance.

Amy Burr

Amy Burr

Senior Vice President, Head of Payment Operations Strategy

Federal Reserve System

Amy Burr

Senior Vice President, Head of Payment Operations Strategy

In her 25-year career with the Federal Reserve System, Amy has worked in a number of capacities in payments. She led large-scale technology replacement programs for the Cash service line and the Fed’s national policy and strategy function for Cash services. She also spent a year on secondment to the Board of Governors, where she served as head of the Banknote Issuance and Currency Operations function. In 2021, she became head of Wholesale Payments, a position she held until the Federal Reserve established Federal Reserve Financial Services. In this new organization, Amy is head of Payment Operations Strategy, which is charged with integrating and establishing a strategic vision for the payment operations function of the Federal Reserve System.

Amy Jiang

Amy Jiang

Adviser

BIS Innovation Hub

Amy Jiang

Adviser

Amy joined the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre in September 2021 as an adviser. Previously, she worked as a regulator and policymaker at the Prudential Regulatory Authority, Bank of England. Her work contributed to the development of regulatory reforms after the 2008-09 financial crisis. Amy also represented UK at various international working groups. 

Prior to joining the Bank of England, Amy spent many years in the private sector, gaining experience from a range of different roles in finance, compliance and accounting.   

 Amy holds degrees in finance and computer science, and is a member of chartered accountants, Australian and New Zealand. 

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Andrea Maechler

Member of the Governing Board

Swiss National Bank

Andrea Maechler

Member of the Governing Board

Andréa M. Maechler was born in Geneva in 1969. She studied economics at the University of Toronto, and then at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where she obtained her Master's in International Economics. Following a period of study at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Public Administration in Lausanne, she obtained her PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000.

Andréa M. Maechler's early career took her to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an economist in the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) Financial Stability unit in Zurich. She then moved to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she occupied a number of senior positions in the Africa, Monetary and Capital Markets, Western Hemisphere and Strategy, Policy and Review departments. From 2012 to 2014, during a sabbatical from the IMF, she worked for the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) in Frankfurt. Upon returning to the IMF, she was appointed as Deputy Division Chief in the Global Markets Analysis Division. The functions of this division include monitoring global capital markets, and assessing systemic risks and the macrofinancial impact of capital market developments.

With effect from 1 July 2015, the Swiss Federal Council appointed Andréa M. Maechler as Member of the SNB's Governing Board - the first woman to occupy a Board position. At the same time, she became Head of Department III (Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Banking Operations, Information Technology).

Andréa M. Maechler is a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.

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Andrea Pinna

Team Lead - Digital Euro Business Architecture

European Central Bank

Andrea Pinna

Team Lead - Digital Euro Business Architecture

Working on innovation at the ECB since 2015.

Dr Andrei Kazantsev

Dr Andrei Kazantsev

Global Head of Crypto Trading

Goldman Sachs

Dr Andrei Kazantsev

Global Head of Crypto Trading

Global Head of Crypto Trading

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Andy Walters

Senior Fintech Analyst

Bank of England

Andy Walters

Senior Fintech Analyst

Andy is a Senior Fintech Analyst at the Bank of England's Fintech Hub, focused on the adoption of AI/ML and DLT in financial services. In his 10 years at the Bank, Andy has worked previously on risk management, international economic analysis, and financial stability.

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Anikó Szombati

Chief Digital Officer, Executive Director for Digitalization and Fintech Support

Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)

Anikó Szombati

Chief Digital Officer, Executive Director for Digitalization and Fintech Support

Economist, graduated at Corvinus University, Budapest. Joined the central bank in 2001. She is responsible for promoting digital transformation in the financial sector as well as within the central bank, including the implementation of cutting edge technologies and research on CBDC. She is member of the Financial Stability Council.

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska

Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska

Governor

National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia

Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska

Governor

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska is Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia. She assumed office of Governor in May 2018, after almost twelve years of work experience in the institution, first as a chief economist, and almost eight years after, as a Vice-Governor in charge of the monetary policy, research and statistics. She is also a Governor for the Republic of North Macedonia on the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and member of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative 2, as representative of the six countries Western Balkan economies. By the end of 2019, she was also a member of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

Previously, Angelovska Bezhoska worked at the IMF in Washington DC, USA, as a member of the IMF negotiation missions with member states, and providing technical assistance. She started her career in the Ministry of Finance, first as a head of the project for establishing a treasury system and then, as a state treasurer and state secretary. As a state secretary in the Ministry of Finance, she coordinated processes related to the European integration, budget reforms and negotiations with international financial institutions. Her contribution to the development of public finances was acknowledged with an award granted by the US Embassy in Skopje in 2004. In 2015, Angelovska Bezhoska received her doctorate in economics at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. She is the author of several expert and research papers. During her career, she has been engaged as a lecturer by many domestic and international educational and scientific institutions.

 

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Anne Leslie

Cloud Risk & Controls Leader EMEA

IBM

Anne Leslie

Cloud Risk & Controls Leader EMEA

Anne Leslie is Cloud Risk and Controls Leader EMEA at IBM Cloud for Financial Services. She has over 15 years experience in international roles in banking and related technology businesses, spanning the intersection of financial services, European regulatory policy, cybersecurity and Cloud.

Bilingual in French and English, Anne holds an Executive MBA from HEC Business School in Paris and the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC) in addition to multiple security platform certifications. 

Since joining IBM, her focus has been on accompanying European financial institutions in securely accelerating their journey to cloud and transforming their cybersecurity operations to keep pace with a dynamic business, regulatory, technology and threat landscape.  

Widely known for her public speaking, Anne regularly contributes her thought leadership to industry conferences and working groups. A recognized trusted advisor, she has a proven ability to orchestrate outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues by cultivating positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups. 

Irish by nature and French by design, Anne was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland and lives happily with her three children in Paris, France which has been her home now for over twenty years.

Dr Ansgar Schott

Dr Ansgar Schott

Partner, Attorney at Law

Baker McKenzie

Dr Ansgar Schott

Partner, Attorney at Law

Ansgar Schott has advised large Swiss and international financial institutions on several aspects of financial services, fintech, investment and financial markets law. He advises throughout the lifecycle of regulated businesses, on launch and authorisation, global expansion, business and product innovation, new regulatory developments, and on responding to regulatory enquiries and investigations.

Anton Ruddenklau

Anton Ruddenklau

Global Head of Fintech & Innovation, Financial Services & Partner

KPMG International

Anton Ruddenklau

Global Head of Fintech & Innovation, Financial Services & Partner

Anton leads KPMG's fast growing global fintech and Singapore based Financial Services Advisory practices. He has 25 years digital experience in new business model development, advising on innovation within global institutions, supporting scaling of technology led firms and working with Investors and Regulators to prove out new ways of working. Anton works across all regions and key global markets supporting the next generation of ecosystem cross sector development.

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Anton Katz

Co-Founder and CEO

Talos

Anton Katz

Co-Founder and CEO

Anton Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset trading technology. At Talos, he is responsible for leading the firm’s overall operations and driving its strategic initiatives around the world. Talos, now a unicorn, is a platform that bridges traditional finance firms into digital asset markets and is quietly becoming the primary infrastructure used by most institutional investors in digital assets, from the biggest hedge funds to global banks.

Before co-founding Talos, Anton served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, one of the world’s most prominent quantitative investment firms. Prior to that he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently serving as Director of Software, where he led trading technology development projects for dozens of leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. He began his technology career at Microsoft. 

Anton was born in Ukraine and is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to that, Anton was a member of the Israeli National Shooting Team where he won a gold medal in the 1998 World Championships. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

 



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Antonio Alvarez

Chief Compliance Officer

Crypto.com

Antonio Alvarez

Chief Compliance Officer

Antonio is the chief compliance officer at Crypto.com, where he leads a global team responsible for the design, implementation and scaling up of the regulatory compliance program for the company in the demanding context of an exponentially growing business. As a global payments and remittances compliance officer, Antonio has nearly two decades of experience building and leading regulatory compliance programs for cash, electronic payment forms and crypto-based business models. 

Prior to Crypto.com, he was VP of compliance at Coinbase where he led the company’s global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program, and was responsible for the company's sanction programs, regulatory and independent examinations and financial partner compliance relationships. Antonio was also chief compliance officer at online and mobile payments solutions provider Yapstone, has held senior compliance/regulations roles at Western Union and Visa. Earlier in his career, Antonio served in several different roles during a 13-year tenure at American Express, where he was responsible for leading the business transformation and compliance governance programs across multiple business lines and geographies. 

Antonio's work expands across North and South America, Europe and Asia, and he is a dual U.S. and European citizen fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese. He is a member of ACAMS, the largest international membership organization for Anti-Financial Crime professionals.

Anubhav Nayyar

Anubhav Nayyar

Chief Growth Advisor

Ecosystm

Anubhav Nayyar

Chief Growth Advisor

As a seasoned Technology and Growth Executive, Anubhav specialises in incubating and building businesses from scratch having started Snap Inc’s South East Asia operations as Employee #1 and the Regional Site leader. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director and Head of Rakuten Viber’s APAC operations having established the business as the first employee in the region.

Passionate about innovation and break through technology, he is also a Strategic and Board Advisor and Investor to multiple startups. He is currently the Chief Growth Advisor at Ecosystm.

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Dr August Benz

Member of the Executive Board

Swiss Bankers Association (SBA)

Dr August Benz

Member of the Executive Board

Since July 2017, August Benz is Head of Private Banking and Asset Management at the SBA and, since March 2023, he is entrusted with the management of the office on an interim basis. He is responsible for all matters relating to Private Banking, Asset Management, Europe, digitalisation and sustainable finance. Since April 2022, he is also President of the Swiss Financial Sector Cyber Security Centre (FS-CSC). He started his time at UBS in 1999 and held various management positions. He was head of UBS Asset Management’s global strategy department. He was responsible for leading and restructuring Europe’s largest fund platform and for leading the B2B distribution in Switzerland. He built up UBS Asset Management’s global distribution management function and was Head Client Servicing, with global responsibility for establishing and implementing client servicing standards. He has a proven track record in the finance industry and is well acquainted with the various aspects of financial market regulation. He has a Ph.D. in political science from St. Gallen University and a Master of Science from Edinburgh University. 

Aurelie Bergugnat

Aurelie Bergugnat

Group Chief Data Officer - SVP, Data and Performance

Schneider Electric

Aurelie Bergugnat

Group Chief Data Officer - SVP, Data and Performance

Appointed in October 2019, Aurelie Bergugnat is currently the group Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President in charge of Performance Management.

Prior to this role, after multiple operational roles in Finance, such as CFO of IT channel division for SE (US$2 Bn/ year) and M&A integrations, Aurelie led special projects for the Executive Committee of Schneider Electric, on the operationalization of strategy between Functions, Businesses and Operations; and the creation of the Digital Performance Office of the group – defining and deploying performance management for Digital Transformation and Subscriptions businesses of SE portfolio.

Aurelie received an Executive MBA from Columbia University (NY) and London Business School (UK); she is also a graduate of HEC Paris (France) in Strategic Management and Ecole Nationale Superieures d’Arts et Metiers (France) in Mechanical Engineering.

On a more personal note, Aurelie has been an active member of MIT CISR Data Board and WEST – Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology – based out of Boston, supporting women in their careers in Technology.

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Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament

Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament

Axel Voss (CDU) - born in 1963 - studied law at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg and Munich. Since 1994, he is working as a lawyer. From 1994 to 2000, he was a civil advisor at the EU Commission's representation in Germany. Afterwards, he worked for nine years as lecturer for European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of the College of Koblenz.

He became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009, where he represents the Mittelrhein area, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen and the districts Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. Axel Voss is EPP-coordinator for the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and from 2020 to 2022 member and rapporteur in the special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Besides questions of European Law, his main area of expertise is the digitization of our daily life. For the European People’s Party group, he was among others (shadow-)rapporteur for the new Copyright Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Passenger Name Record Directive (PNR) as well as for the updated Eurojust Regulation. At the moment, he is (shadow-)rapporteur for the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Axel Voss is also CDU chair of the regional section Mittelrhein, regional chair of the Europe Union Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and Vice President of the Mérite Européen Friendship and Assistance Association, Germany.

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Balbir Bakhshi

Group Chief Risk Officer

London Stock Exchange Group

Balbir Bakhshi

Group Chief Risk Officer

Balbir joined LSEG as Group Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Committee in January 2021 and brings a deep commercial understanding and knowledge of risk management. Balbir was previously Group Head of Non-Financial Risk Management at Deutsche Bank and served on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. as Chair of its Risk Committee. Prior to this, Balbir was Global Head of Operational Risk Management at Credit Suisse, having held a variety of senior roles at Credit Suisse International Ltd, including UK Investment Banking Chief Risk Officer and Head of Market Risk. Balbir is also a Board member of LCH Ltd, LCH S.A and Tradeweb Markets Inc.

Basel Al-Haroon

Basel Al-Haroon

Governor

Central Bank of Kuwait

Basel Al-Haroon

Governor

Appointed as Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) in April 2022. H.E. Basel Al-Haroon held several high-ranking positions in the banking and financial sectors. He started his career at the CBK in 1989, advancing in various posts last of which being the Manager of the Foreign Operations Department until he became the Executive Director of Operations and Research Sector to oversee both the Foreign Operations Department and Economic Research Department until 2012. Al-Haroon was appointed as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) in 2012. In 2021, he became the President of Kuwait Financial Intelligence Unit until March 2022.

Ben Dyson

Ben Dyson

Product Owner, Nexus

BIS Innovation Hub

Ben Dyson

Product Owner, Nexus

Ben Dyson is an Advisor at the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore, where he leads the technology work on Nexus, a blueprint for instant cross-border payments. Prior to joining the Hub in September 2020, Ben was at the Bank of England, where he led their work on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), as well as developing policy and regulation on cryptoassets and stablecoins. He was the lead author on the Bank of England’s first discussion paper on CBDC. 

Benjamin Anderegg

Benjamin Anderegg

Head of Money Market and Foreign Exchange

Swiss National Bank

Benjamin Anderegg

Head of Money Market and Foreign Exchange

Benjamin is a Director of the Swiss National Bank and heads the Money Market and Foreign Exchange division in Zurich. He is responsible for the implementation of monetary policy of the SNB. Benjamin joined the SNB in February 2017.

Before joining the SNB, Benjamin spent almost 15 years at UBS Investment Bank in the FICC division.  He worked in Zurich, Singapore and lastly London, where he was Head of FX Exotic Options Trading for EMEA.

Benjamin is co-Chair of the Swiss Foreign Exchange Committee and a member of the board of ACI Suisse.

Benjamin Lee

Benjamin Lee

Acting Centre Head

BIS Innovation Hub - Singapore Centre

Benjamin Lee

Acting Centre Head

Benjamin Lee currently serves as the Acting Centre Head for the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH) in Singapore. Before assuming this role, Benjamin served as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)'s senior liaison and secondee to the BISIH and tasked with the establishment of the Singapore centre’s operations and supporting its innovation and technology project pipeline.

Prior to this, Benjamin worked on international finance matters at the MAS, and on public finance administration at the Ministry of Finance in Singapore. Benjamin also previously served as Singapore's representative to the Executive Board of the World Bank Group between 2014 - 2016.

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Benjamin Staeheli

CBO Payment Solutions & Board Member

PostFinance

Benjamin Staeheli

CBO Payment Solutions & Board Member

Chief Business Unit Officer Payment Solutions
Doctorate in Cross-Cultural Management (HSG), lic. oec Business Administration (HSG)

Professional background

  • Avaloq Group, Head of Global Banking Operations (2017 – 2021)
  • B-Source SA (now Avaloq Sourcing Ltd), Head of Banking and a member of the Executive Board (2008 – 2017)
  • Credit Suisse Group AG, various management roles (1998 – 2008)

 

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Ben Reeve

Partner

Oliver Wyman

Ben Reeve

Partner

Specialises in risk management in capital markets and digital assets, helping traditional financial institution clients push into new products and services, and native digital asset players to adapt to the evolving global regulatory environment.

Biba Homsy

Biba Homsy

Partner

Homsy Legal

Biba Homsy

Partner

Former Manager @FINMA

Former Chief Compliance Europe - Credit Suisse

Expert on crypto-assets since 2015 

Founder law firm in Luxembourg and Switzerland. Field: financial regulation, compliance, licenses, authorization, AML/CFT, KYC, Digital assets

Brad Garlinghouse

Brad Garlinghouse

Chief Executive Officer

Ripple

Brad Garlinghouse

Chief Executive Officer

Brad is the CEO of Ripple and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL and prior to that he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President.

Earlier in his career, Brad helped to pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.

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Brando Benifei

Member of the European Parliament

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Brando Benifei

Member of the European Parliament

Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP in his second term and the head of the Partito Democratico delegation to the European Parliament. He is the rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act as a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He also deals with employment, legal and constitutional affairs. He was also shadow rapporteur of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age.

 

In 2016, he was included by Forbes in its list of 30 under 30 to watch out for.

Breno Lobo

Breno Lobo

Senior Advisor

Central Bank of Brazil

Breno Lobo

Senior Advisor

Breno Lobo is a senior advisor at the unit in charge of Pix management and operation at the Central Bank of Brazil. He has been working in the payment system area of the Central Bank of Brazil for 17 years. He was Pix's project manager, which implemented the Brazilian instant payment scheme and system in 2020. He currently works as a technical specialist on Pix's evolutionary agenda and Pix's operationalization processes.

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Bridget Rose Mesina-Romero

Director

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Bridget Rose Mesina-Romero

Director

Brooks Entwistle

Brooks Entwistle

Senior Vice President & Managing Director

Ripple

Brooks Entwistle

Senior Vice President & Managing Director

Brooks Entwistle is Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Ripple. Prior to joining Ripple, he served as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business development and the firm’s relationships across APAC, EMEA and LatAm. Previously, he was the CEO of Everstone Capital, a premier India and Southeast Asia focused private equity and real estate investment firm. 

Prior to moving into leadership roles in the technology industry, Brooks spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs in various capacities, including 15 years based in Asia. Most recently, he was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia as well as CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore. Prior to this, he spent 5 years in Mumbai as CEO and Founder of Goldman Sachs India where he was responsible for leading and building the firm across all divisions. He also served as the Founder & Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asia’s High Technology Group. 

Earlier in his career, Brooks served as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). 

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Professor Bryan Ford

Professor

EPFL

Professor Bryan Ford

Professor

Prof. Bryan Ford leads the Decentralized/Distributed Systems (DEDIS) research laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).  Ford's research focuses on decentralized systems, security and privacy, digital democracy, and blockchain technology.  Since earning his Ph.D. at MIT, Ford has held faculty positions at Yale University and EPFL. His awards include the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, the NSF CAREER award, and the AXA Research Chair.  Inventions he is known for include parsing expression grammars, delegative or liquid democracy, and scalable sharded blockchains.  He has advised numerous companies and governments, including serving on the US DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group and on the Swiss Federal E-voting Experts Dialog.

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Bryony Widdup

Partner, Co-Head Sustainable Finance and Investment

Hogan Lovells

Bryony Widdup

Partner, Co-Head Sustainable Finance and Investment

Bryony is a finance and fintech lawyer, with over 15 years' experience advising on fundraising solutions in the financial services sector. Known for her dedication to clients, Bryony is skilled in transaction structuring, in finance for funds, broader lending platforms (including blockchain-based offerings) and digital assets including token structuring and issuance. She is passionate about sustainable finance and investment solutions, including green, social and sustainability-linked instruments, transition finance and impact investing.

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Calissa Aldridge

Senior Executive Leader – Market Supervision

Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Calissa Aldridge

Senior Executive Leader – Market Supervision

Calissa leads ASIC’s Market Supervision team, responsible for oversight of investment banks, market participants and issuers of complex retail products, as well as monitoring of trading activities across Australia’s equities, futures, and OTC markets.

Calissa has held senior leadership roles in ASIC’s Market Supervision and Market Infrastructure teams since 2009. Before joining ASIC, she held roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK Financial Services Authority, Markit and the Australian Treasury.

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Carmen Munoz

Managing Director, Global Head of Resources

Sustainable Fitch

Carmen Munoz

Managing Director, Global Head of Resources

Carmen Munoz is Managing Director and the Global Head of Resources at Sustainable Fitch. An important part of her time is spent ensuring that the Sustainable Fitch's Analytical and Research Teams have the necessary tools to effectively carry out their jobs and to help contribute to making ESG Ratings consistent and comparable across asset classes and jurisdictions.

Before this, she formed part of Fitch Ratings' Structured Finance and Covered Bonds Enhanced Analytics team and participated in creating the methodology used to assign ESG Relevance Scores related to credit ratings. She began her career at Fitch Ratings, leading the Financial Institutions rating team for Spanish banks, while also rating bank and non-bank financial institutions internationally.

She is a firm believer of the value of training, having delivered courses internally as well as Corporate Governance and credit ratings sessions at the Financial Stability Institute in Switzerland.

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Carolin Roth

Moderator

Carolin Roth

Moderator

Moderator and Journalist

Hon. Caroline D Pham

Hon. Caroline D. Pham

Commissioner

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Hon. Caroline D. Pham

Commissioner

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is an internationally recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key global issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of global regulatory reforms, and addressing the impact of major disruptions like the 2008 great financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Pham is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Previously, Commissioner Pham was a Managing Director at Citigroup where she held various senior roles, including Head of Market Structure for Strategic Initiatives on the Institutional Clients Group Business Development team; Head of Capital Markets Regulatory Strategy and Engagement; Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs; and Global Head of Swap Dealer and Volcker Compliance. She was a member of firmwide governance forums and has held leadership roles in many industry and professional organizations.

Commissioner Pham is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has received various awards. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Business and Finance Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance.

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Caroline Malcolm

Vice President, Global Public Policy

Chainalysis

Caroline Malcolm

Vice President, Global Public Policy

Caroline is the Vice President of Global Public Policy at Chainalysis, the international leader in blockchain analytics, focused on bringing greater transparency to the world of blockchains and digital assets. She has more than 15 years experience at the international level working with governments and international organisations, and was the founding head of the OECD’s Global Blockchain Policy Centre. She is one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. 

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Carrie Suen

Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies & Head of APAC (ex GBA) Public Policy

Ant Group

Carrie Suen

Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies & Head of APAC (ex GBA) Public Policy

Carrie Suen is the Senior Advisor at Ant Group, where she is responsible to drive our global strategies and thought leadership of Ant's international policy objectives to bring more inclusive, green and sustainable changes to the ecosystem. She also oversaw the legal and privacy functions for Ant International Business Group.

Carrie is a seasoned lawyer and has experience in wide range of subject matters ranging from fintech regulatory, corporate governance, M&A, equity offerings to listed companies compliance. Since joining Ant in 2014, Carrie has been at the forefront of the global digital payment and regulatory development, where she accumulated practical insight of the market pain points. Carrie has been involved in regular direct communications and dialogues with regulators/government and international organizations, to raise awareness the importance of financial inclusion and help shape the policy landscape globally. Under her leadership, Ant’s International Legal team grew fourfold from 2017-2020, supporting over 100 markets/regions.

She is currently an advisory board member of the Emerging Payments Association Asia and a member of the women in fintech sub-committee of the Singapore Fintech Association, to drive more community support and sponsorship to champion for women leadership in Singapore and the region.

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Cecilia Skingsley

Head of BIS Innovation Hub

Bank for International Settlements

Cecilia Skingsley

Head of BIS Innovation Hub

Cecilia Skingsley became Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in September 2022. She is a member of the BIS's Executive Committee. Previously, she held the position of First Deputy Governor of the Riksbank since November 2019.

Most recently she chaired the BIS's Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Future of Payments Working Group, was the Governor of the Riksbank’s alternate on the General Council of the ECB and member of the Advisory Technical Committee (ATC) of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

Prior to holding the position of Deputy Governor of the Riksbank from May 2013 to November 2019, Ms Skingsley held various roles including Head of FX and Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at Swedbank (2007-2013); financial journalist and Head of Financial Market Section at Dagens Industri (2000-2007); Macro Analyst, ABN Amro Bank (1998-2000).

Ms Skingsley holds a degree in economics and political science from Stockholm University. She received a financial analyst degree from SSE Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (formerly IFL at Stockholm School of Economics) and studied journalism at Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm.

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Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

Ant Group

Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

Mr. Leiming CHEN has been Senior Vice President of Ant Group since March 2016, responsible for International Public Policy and Government Affairs of Ant Group. He also leads the ESG initiatives and the implementation of the sustainable development strategy of Ant Group’s international businesses.

Mr. Chen joined us in March 2016 and served as our General Counsel from March 2016 to May 2020. In his day-to-day responsibilities, Mr. Chen undertakes a broad range of regulatory engagement in connection with our Group's international business activities. Prior to joining us, Mr. Chen was a partner and head of China practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a New York-based international law firm, where he worked on a variety of equity and debt offerings and mergers and acquisitions involving primarily PRC companies, including his lead role in advising Alibaba in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters. Mr. Chen is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and is a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong. Mr. Chen obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, Canada.

Chia Teck Yew

Chia Teck Yew

Partner and Head of Insurance, Asia Pacific

Oliver Wyman

Chia Teck Yew

Partner and Head of Insurance, Asia Pacific

Tek Yew has more than 30 years of consulting experience and is a subject matter expert in multiple aspects of financial services, including working with central banks and regulators across Asia and the Middle East. He is based in Singapore and leads the Asia Pacific insurance practice for Oliver Wyman.

 

Tek Yew has most recently focused on areas of sustainability, market disruption in financial services, working with regulators on payments modernization and fintech promotion as well as with fintechs and payments organizations in their business and operational model development.

 

Tek Yew holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) degree from National University of Singapore and participated in the INSEAD International Management Development Program and Hewlett Packard/Stanford University Executive Development Program.

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Chloe White

Managing Director

Genesis Block Advisory

Chloe White

Managing Director

Chloe White is an award-winning consultant, a former regulator and policymaker for virtual assets, and a classically trained economist with experience across macro, micro and financial economy issues. Chloe applies her skills in the web3 context through her work on tokenomics, stablecoins, venture capital advisory and licensing support. She is experienced in advising clients throughout the value chain including start-ups, listed companies, asset managers, associations and government. Her most recent appointment was her role within VARA, the virtual assets regulator in Dubai, where she served as the inaugural International Regulatory Policy Advisor. Chloe previously served as the Australian Government’s National Blockchain Roadmap Lead and was the primary crypto-asset expert at the Commonwealth Treasury. Chloe has appeared as an expert witness in Senate hearings and continues to hold a number of notable advisory positions. She has worked full-time on virtual assets for more than 5 years. Chloe is based in Dubai.

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Chong Kok Kee

Chief Executive Officer

AsiaNext

Chong Kok Kee

Chief Executive Officer

Kok Kee is CEO of AsiaNext, a digital asset exchange set up in Singapore as a JV between SBI Digital Asset Holding (Japan) and SIX Group AG (Switzerland). The exchange is a listing and trading platform for securities tokens as well as a platform for trading crypto assets/derivatives.

His expertise lies in fintech, hospitality and real estate, banking and capital markets, specifically in areas of corporate strategy and governance, business development, risk management, corporate finance, tech, operations and compliance.

His career has seen him hold senior leadership positions in global multinationals like UBS (Managing Director/COO/CFO), JP Morgan (Managing Director/COO) and UK FTSE listed Millennium & Copthorne Plc (Group CFO).

He was formerly the CEO/COO of two regulated digital asset/crypto exchanges (Cyberdyne Tech Exchange and ECXX Global) based in Singapore. 

He has more than 30 years' working experience in auditing, banking, capital markets, real estate and hospitality in several locations including China (9 years), Taiwan (4 years), Hong Kong, Zurich, New York, London and Singapore.

Kok Kee holds a B. Accountancy (Honours) degree from NUS, and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, Institute of Certified Public Accountants Australia and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA, CGMA). He has also previously qualified for senior management roles in China banking and security markets, having passed rigorous exams and achieved qualifications set by CBRC/CSRC/Securities Association of China.

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Choo Oi-Yee

Chief Executive Officer

ADDX

Choo Oi-Yee

Chief Executive Officer

Oi-Yee was appointed CEO of ADDX in March 2022. She has 20 years of capital raising and M&A advisory experience.

Before joining ADDX as Chief Commercial Officer in January 2020, Oi-Yee was with UBS for 6 years, and was Head of Investment Banking for UBS Singapore. She joined UBS from Morgan Stanley, where she was Head of Singapore Investment Banking. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she ran the Southeast Asia real estate investment banking franchise for Nomura Singapore. She started her investment banking career with Citigroup, covering Singapore corporate and real estate clients.

Between 2006 and 2008, Oi-Yee was Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, for Parkway Holdings, the largest healthcare company in Asia, and helped create the Parkway Life REIT.

Oi-Yee graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Accountancy. She also has a Master of Business Administration from Manchester Business School.

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Chris Hackworth

Adviser

BIS Innovation Hub

Chris Hackworth

Adviser

Chris works as an adviser at the BIS Innovation Hub’s London Centre having joined from the Bank of England. His recent focus has been on identifying how technological innovations can be applied to central banks’ work. At the Innovation Hub, Chris has been the lead on Project Meridian, which built a prototype for a new way to settle a complex transaction in RTGS systems. In previous roles, drawing on his background as an economist, he has led work implementing advanced analytic techniques to provide better insights for monetary and financial stability policy makers. 

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Christel Younes

Head of Portfolio and Innovation

Kaiko

Christel Younes

Head of Portfolio and Innovation

Started my career at BNP Paribas Global Markets, in equities derivatives, 17 years all in. Took several roles, starting with Quantitative Research, and mathematical modelling of financial assets, to Structuring and finally to Trading products on systematic strategies indices.

 

Joined Kaiko at the beginning of 2023 to launch a new initiative: Tokenized Indices to build an infrastructure that offers automatic tracking of crypto indices, and was recently appointed Head of Portfolio and Innovation.

Christian Spindler

Dr Christian Spindler

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sustainaccount AG

Dr Christian Spindler

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Christian Spindler is co-founder of Sustainaccount. With his company, Christian helps real asset developers, asset managers and portfolio investors to make their assets resilient to climate change. Sustainaccount quantifies the financial risks implied by the changing climate, and develops optimal adaptation pathways. With the Sustainaccount solution, customers are enabled to both adequately report on climate risk alongside regulatory requirements such as SFDR, TCFD and CSRD, and also develop an optimal investment roadmap to develop climate resilient real estate and infrastructure assets.

Before founding Sustainaccount, Christian Spindler headed the development of products and solutions in the field of data science and sustainable finance in corporates such as PwC, Deloitte and ABB.

Christian Spindler holds a PhD in climate science and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen.

Dr Christian Stoll

Dr Christian Stoll

Co-founder

CCRI - Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute

Dr Christian Stoll

Co-founder

Christian Stoll is a co-founder of CCRI – Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute and a research affiliate at the Center for Energy Markets of the TU Munich and MIT CEEPR. His current research focuses on the sustainability of digital assets. Christian  received his Ph.D. from TU Munich in 2019. Before and after his Ph.D. leave, he worked as a management consultant in Europe and the Middle East 

Dr Christian Westermann

Dr Christian Westermann

Head of AI & Data Transformation

Zurich Insurance Company

Dr Christian Westermann

Head of AI & Data Transformation

Christian is the Head of AI & Data Transformation at Zurich. He is a technology enthusiast who has worked on ESA and NASA space missions in the 90ies. In the early 2000s he started his career in consulting, where he spent 17 years, supporting many large companies on their technology journey towards data and AI-driven innovation, in financial services, healthcare, pharma and industrial manufacturing. His mission at Zurich is to drive the AI transformation in the most significant business areas of the company.

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Christiane Hoppe

Head Competence Center AI

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Christiane Hoppe

Head Competence Center AI

Christiane is heading the AI competence center at FINMA since 1 June 2022. She has over 20 years experience in pricing, trading and risk management in large international banks and 4 years as a co-founder of an AI start-up company.