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Michael Dewar

Dr. Michael Dewar

VP, Data Science, Mastercard

Dr Michael Dewar is a Vice President of Data Science in the Security Innovation team within Foundry, Mastercard’s New Product Development unit. Dr Dewar has a PhD in complex systems from the University of Sheffield in the UK, held postdoctoral positions at Edinburgh and Columbia Universities, and has published widely in the fields of modelling and machine learning.

Before joining Mastercard, Dr Dewar has held data scientist positions at the social media company bit.ly, and in the R&D Lab at the New York Times. During his time at Mastercard, Dr Dewar and his team have been responsible for designing, building, and operating live financial crime products used by the top UK banks, including the Trace Money Mules, Consumer Fraud Risk and Corporate Fraud Risk products.