Director, New York Innovation Center, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Per is the Director of the New York Innovation Center (NYIC) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Center provides an innovation execution capability for the central bank community in collaboration with private and public sector colleagues including our strategic partner, the Bank for International Settlements.
Earlier Per was a Director at PwC on the Banking Transformation team and co-lead the Banking and Lending Innovation Center (Blinc). Blinc is a fintech venture studio utilizing the principles of corporate innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Earlier, he was a Senior Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), and co-founder of the D10X incubator at Citi Ventures, the innovation and venture capital group of Citigroup.
Per was alo a venture capitalist and software entrepreneur.
He received an MBA from the University of Cambridge and a double BA from Macalester College in Economics and Environmental Studies where he serves as a Trustee Emeritus. Per holds a patent for the dynamic management of bandwidth.
Roundtable Room 3 (Level 3)
Open
This roundtable gathers experts from key organizations involved in shaping the future of wholesale cross-border payments. In this early phase—focused on collecting diverse requirements, shaping the technological fundamentals and establishing a multi-stakeholder project organisation—participants will share initial lessons learned and discuss anticipated challenges for future phases of Project Agorá. The discussion is designed to foster robust debate and exchange innovative ideas from various perspectives.
It aims to discuss the driving forces and motivation behind project Agorá and synthesise early insights around key coordination, technical, and operational challenges in building a resilient next-generation tokenised cross-border payment platform. Further the roundtable aims to share and ideate on possible strategies to resolve identified challenges and consider emerging technology trends in future phases of the project.
The discussion will produce a report of synthesised insights, current challenges and proposed solutions and strategies, to effectively and efficiently enable the future of cross-border payments with future phases of Project Agorá.