Bryan Zhang

Bryan is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He has a decade of experience in researching technology-enabled financial innovation and its interplay with regulation, supervision and policy nationally, regionally and globally.

Bryan has led and co-authored more than 60 reports on FinTech market trends, industry dynamics, regulatory changes and innovation as well as digital financial inclusion. The CCAF has collaborated with more than 5000 fintechs, 350 central banks and financial authorities, and directly trained 3,600 policymakers, regulators and supervisors from 180 jurisdictions.

Bryan is a Non-Executive Director of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a member of Bank of England and HMT’s CBDC Engagement Forum, IMF's FAS Advisory Group, OECD's Steering Group on SME & Entrepreneurship Finance, DIFC's Innovation Panel and the Bretton Woods Committee. He co-chairs the Future of Global FinTech Initiative, a collaboration between CCAF and the World Economic Forum. He also served as the Independent Chair of a Strategic Working Group (SWG) that looks at the future development of Open Banking in the UK, appointed by the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC). Bryan is a Co-Founder and Director of Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii), a global not-for-profit dedicated to accelerating policy, regulatory, supervisory and infrastructure innovation.