Marlene Amstad

Marlene Amstad serves as Chair of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and as Chair of the SupTech Forum of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). She brings more than three decades of expertise at the intersection of finance and technology across Asia, the United States, and Europe, with a particular focus on how data and technology are reshaping central banking and financial supervision. Her previous roles include positions at the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She spent nearly a decade in Asia, where she coordinated the Asian Bond Fund initiative at the BIS in Hong Kong and served as an asset management advisor to more than ten Asian central banks. In Shenzhen, she served as Co-Director of the FinTech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute, where she worked at the intersection of finance and emerging technologies and saw first-hand how quickly digital finance can reshape daily life. She is co-editor and co-author of the book CBDC and FinTech in Asia. Marlene Amstad is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bern and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.