Marlene Amstad

Marlene Amstad serves as Chair of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and as Chair of the SupervisoryTechForum under the auspices 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 primary focus on 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. As Co-Director of the FinTech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute, she focused on the intersection of finance and emerging technologies. 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.