Prof. Bob Wardrop

Bob is a member of the Finance faculty of the Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (CJBS) with expertise in regulatory innovation and the digitisation of the financial system. In 2021, he was awarded the CJBS Excellence in Teaching Prize for his teaching in the Master of Finance programme and in 2022 received the CJBS Sandra Dawson Research Impact Award. In 2015, Bob co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, which during his tenure as its Founding Director has established itself as a global leader in researching channels and instruments of finance emerging in the digitisation of the financial system. Bob’s current research focus is computational policy and regulation, which uses AI technology to enable regulatory information to be consumed in a machine-readable and machine-consumable form. Bob regularly advises national governmental and multi-lateral organisations on regulatory innovation and is currently a member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee of the Bank of Mauritius and was a member of the International Technology Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, and an MSc from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.