Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy & Operations

Circle

Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy and Operations for Circle, a financial technology firm and the issuer of the world’s leading regulated digital currencies. In this role, he leads global strategy and operations, market expansion, regulatory policy, public affairs and corporate communications. Dante serves on the board of the Atlantic Council, and The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Circle, Dante was a founder of the Libra Association and has more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and chairman of Risk Cooperative. Dante served as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council, the U.S. federal emergency response agency.

Dante is a frequent speaker and commentator on business and political issues shaping the world. His views on risk, economic competitiveness and technology are regularly featured in leading media and publications such as Harvard Business Review, BBC, Forbes, and Diplomatic Courier, where Dante serves on the editorial advisory board.

Dante is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College, from which he received the highest alumni achievement award for public service. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list. Dante is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the World Economic Forum, and the Bretton Woods Committee.

Speaking at

11:10–11:30amWed 24 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Europe’s Currency at a Crossroads: Digital Euro, Stablecoins, and the Mutiny of Money

Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
- Dante DisparteChief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy & OperationsCircle
- Josh LipskyVice President & Chair, International EconomicsAtlantic CouncilModerator
About this session

The digital euro and dollar-denominated stablecoins represent two distinct approaches to programmable money - one rooted in central bank architecture and monetary sovereignty, the other in private infrastructure and market-driven adoption. Each carries different implications for how money is issued, held, settled, and governed in a digital economy. This session explores the fundamental design choices behind both instruments, what they are each built to do, and how they are likely to coexist - or not - as Europe's digital currency landscape takes shape.
2:00–3:30pmWed 24 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

GL1 Dialogue: Institutional-Grade Ledger Infrastructures

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

As digital assets continue to expand across global markets, public and private sector stakeholders face growing complexities around operations, regulations, and scalability. Some advocate for a single global ledger, while others favour consistent standards to be applied across networks to enable seamless interoperability.

This roundtable will examine these perspectives and explore what it will take to build a scalable digital asset ecosystem on institutional-grade infrastructure.
11:45am–12:00pmThu 25 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Clarity on CLARITY and a brief update on GENIUS

Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
- Dante DisparteChief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy & OperationsCircle
About this session

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2:00–3:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Navigating the New Digital Order: Regulatory Divergence, Monetary Architecture, and a Path toward Coordination

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

Digital assets, programmable money, and AI-driven transactions are crossing borders at increased speed. But the rules governing them are being written jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with no shared architecture in sight. As the US advances GENIUS Act rules for private-sector stablecoins, the EU deepens MiCA and pursues a digital euro, and China scales its state-backed e-CNY, three major economies are building divergent governance frameworks around one underlying technology — with significant implications for cross-border payments, monetary policy transmission, and AI in the global financial system.
This policy divergence is a compliance challenge for market participants, but it is also the early stage of a structural buildup. When domestically rational policy choices generate internationally costly spillovers — and when no coordinating mechanism exists to manage them — fragmentation compounds over time until the cost of inaction becomes prohibitive. Digital currencies and AI governance are following this trajectory, and while the window to get ahead of it remains open, it is closing.
Against this backdrop, the Bretton Woods Committee will convene a closed roundtable at Point Zero Forum on Thursday, June 25th to bring together global policymakers, central bankers, regulators, and private sector leaders to stress-test the diagnosis. This discussion will directly inform the Bretton Woods Committee's upcoming work, with a focus on the defining digital governance challenge of the moment: whether coordination across jurisdictions can accelerate to match the digital rails being built beneath the global financial system.
The roundtable will be a 90-minute discussion featuring 10 minutes of scene-setting remarks from featured speakers, followed by an open exchange among the broader group. A brief framing paper will be circulated in advance. The core question animating the discussion: What are the costs of continued fragmentation — and what global coordination mechanisms are necessary to manage the associated risks and opportunities?

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Dante Disparte

Speaking at

Europe’s Currency at a Crossroads: Digital Euro, Stablecoins, and the Mutiny of Money

GL1 Dialogue: Institutional-Grade Ledger Infrastructures

Clarity on CLARITY and a brief update on GENIUS

Navigating the New Digital Order: Regulatory Divergence, Monetary Architecture, and a Path toward Coordination