Alessandra Cillo is Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at LIUC University, where she holds the BPER Bank Chair in Business Analytics. She also teaches at Bocconi. After her Ph.D. in Management at INSEAD (2007), she was Assistant Professor at IESE Business School (2007-2009) and at Bocconi (2009-2018). She is affiliate at several research centers, among which IGIER and Baffi Carefin, as well as SUERF fellow. She serves as member of numerous committees, inside and outside the university. She won several awards for excellence in research and reviewing. She publishes extensively in top international refereed journals among which Management Science and Operations Research. Her research interests are in decision sciences and behavioral economics, where she combines standard principles of economics with psychology to help people making better decisions in risky contexts. Her theoretical and experimental results have relevant applications that range from decision analysis to operation research, medical decisions making, digital money and risk analysis. In recent years, her research has broadened to understand the interaction between machine learning models - that can synthesize information in large amounts of data- and humans that operate under unique circumstances to complement the algorithmic output.

Alex is a 30-year veteran of the banking industry and a sought-after authority in fintech leading SC Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. His current role is on the back of an accomplished career at Standard Chartered in Singapore, including Global Head, Transaction Banking and Group Head, Whole Banking Geographies. He has led the charge on transforming the business into a sustainable and growing franchise, driving innovation in the Bank’s core processes and its approach to clients, in a drive to serve clients as they want and need to be served. Prior to Standard Chartered, Alex was at Deutsche Bank over the course of 12 years. He held various roles including Global Head of Lending and Corporate Banking Coverage, and previously Head Global Banking Coverage APAC. He started his banking career at Credit Suisse, where he held various roles in the Securitization Group, and before that covering Derivatives & Structured Products. Alex is truly a global citizen whose career has spanned the globe across New York, London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore. He holds an Engineering degree from ETH Zürich, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Mr Ariff Ali was initially appointed as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji on 11 September 2017 for a term of 5 years. He was recently reappointed for another term of 5 years on 11 September 2022. Mr Ali joined the Reserve Bank in 1992 in the Research Department. He has worked in the Economics, Financial Markets and the Financial Institutions Groups and was Team Leader for the FIJICLEAR project. He rose to head the Financial Markets Group in 2009 and was the Chief Manager of the Economics Group from 2013. Prior to his appointment as Governor, he was the Deputy Governor since May 2014. As Governor, Mr Ali is the Chairperson of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, Monetary Policy Committee, Macroeconomic Committee, Capital Markets Development Taskforce, National Financial Inclusion Taskforce and Secured Transactions Taskforce. He is also a member of the Council of the Fiji Institute of Bankers and the National Anti-Money Laundering Council. Mr Ali is the Chairperson of the Government Tender Board, the Accident Compensation Commission Fiji and the Fiji Roads Authority. Mr Ariff Ali obtained his Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from the International Islamic University, Malaysia and a Master of Business Administration from the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Chang Yong Rhee is the Governor of the Bank of Korea and the Chairman of its Monetary Policy Board. Prior to joining the BOK, he was Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF (2014-2022); Chief Economist of the ADB (2011-2014); Secretary General and Sherpa of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Seoul Summit (2009-2011); Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (2008-2009). Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor of Economics at Seoul National University (1994-2008); Assistant Professor at University of Rochester (1989-1994). He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1989.

Mr. MU Changchun is appointed Director-General of the Digital Currency Institute, People’s Bank of China in July, 2019. Mr. Mu joined the People’s Bank of China in 1995 and was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of Payment & Settlement Department in 2017. Mr. MU is a member of CPMI, a member of FSB Financial Innovation Network, and also a member of IMF High-level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology.

David Andolfatto received his Ph.D. in economics in 1994 from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his academic career in Canada as a professor of economics. In 2009, he was awarded the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award for his contributions in the theory of money, banking, and monetary policy. In that same year, David left Canada to become Vice President, and then Senior Vice President, in the research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he served as a senior policy advisor for James Bullard, CEO and president of the Bank. He left the Fed in 2022 to become Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School

David is well-respected thought leader in financial industry technology with over 30 years of experience, leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions. He has invested in and founded a number of start-ups including R3, LiquidityEdge LLC, a successful UST treasury broker, and LedgerEdge, the world's first fully regulated, DLT-enabled trading platform for corporate bonds. He continues to invest in and support several start-ups with a primary focus on further development of the R3 Corda ecosystem. R3’s Corda is the leading private permissioned distributed ledger and tokenization platform powering multi-party workflows in regulated markets. Since 2015, David has grown the company of over 300 employees in 13 countries and has built a thriving ecosystem of more of more than 250 diverse firms building on and supporting the platform globally. Based on his established expertise in the distributed ledger technology and start-up space, David also founded LedgerEdge, a corporate bond technology venture. David’s pioneering role in the industry has been recognized consistently, recently being acknowledged as one of the top twenty most influential in crypto. David is recognized for having played a significant role in the adoption of electronic trading in the global OTC derivatives and securities industry. Since launching his first electronic trading system in 1995 David has been involved in launching electronic trading solutions in over 20 different asset classes globally. David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world's largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane. David continues to serve on multiple boards in the fintech space. David is active in a number of charities through his Rutter Family Charitable Trust—most notably, he is a well member of Charity Water, which pays administration expenses of the charity, so 100% of contributions go to providing clean water to those that need it the most.

Mr. Elliott is a Partner at Oliver Wyman. He focuses on public policy and its implications for the financial sector, globally, with an emphasis on financial regulation and supervision. Doug has a special focus on digital assets, analyzing, writing, and speaking on that topic, particularly the public policy and regulatory issues surrounding them. For example, he was the author of “Cryptoassets: Tulips or Dot Coms?”, “Key Questions for Digital Asset Regulation”, and “Four Visions for the Future of Digital Money”. He leads the public policy working group within Oliver Wyman’s Digital Assets platform as well as leading the Future of Money initiative within the Oliver Wyman Forum. He frequently appears on panels or as a speaker for the Bank of England, Fed, IMF, World Bank, ECB, ESRB, European Commission, Basel Committee, JFSA, Asian Development Bank, US Treasury, OCC, and others. Prior to Oliver Wyman, he was a scholar at The Brookings Institution for seven years, where he wrote and spoke extensively on financial regulation. He has twice been a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund, as well as a consultant for the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. While at Brookings, he wrote Uncle Sam in Pinstripes: Evaluating US Federal Credit Programs, a comprehensive book on the topic. Prior to Brookings, he was a financial institutions investment banker for two decades, principally at J.P. Morgan. He worked across the range of financial institutions clients, including banks, insurers, and asset managers. He was primarily an M&A investment banker, but also worked as an equities analyst and in capital markets. He has testified multiple times before both houses of Congress and participated in numerous speaking engagements, as well as appearing widely in the major media outlets. The New York Times has described his analyses as “refreshingly understandable” and “without a hint of dogma or advocacy”. Mr. Elliott graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Sociology and graduated from Duke University with an M.A. in Computer Science.

Mr. Eddie Yue was appointed Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) from 1 October 2019. He began his career as an Administrative Officer in the Hong Kong Government in 1986. He joined the HKMA upon its establishment in 1993 and was promoted to Division Head a year later. He was appointed Executive Director in 2001 and subsequently Deputy Chief Executive in 2007 before taking up his current position. Mr Yue has participated in numerous areas of the HKMA’s work. During his tenure as Deputy Chief Executive, he steered major policies and initiatives relating to reserves management, research, external affairs, and market development. Mr Yue was also actively involved in tackling major financial crises and played an instrumental role in enhancing the Linked Exchange Rate System. Mr Yue was educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Harvard Business School.

Evan Papageorgiou is a Deputy Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific department (APD) of the IMF. He is the Mission Chief to New Zealand, Mission Chief to Vanuatu and Deputy Mission Chief to Australia. In APD, Evan leads the Digital Money Group and co-leads the Financial Sector Working Group. Previously, Evan was a Deputy Division Chief in the Monetary and Capital Markets department covering emerging markets, crypto, and sustainable finance, and he was an author of the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). He oversaw financial market surveillance and led several GFSR chapters and policy workstreams on a wide range of macro and financial stability issues for emerging and frontier market economies. Earlier in his IMF career, he was in the European department as the senior desk for Sweden and Denmark, covering the financial, fiscal, external, and real sectors. Before joining the Fund, Evan was a strategist for Latin America local rates and FX at Goldman Sachs in New York, and a strategist for CEEMEA local markets at Citi in New York and London. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Financial Mathematics from Columbia

Frank Smets is Adviser to the Executive Board at the European Central Bank. Previously he was Director General Economics, Adviser to the ECB President and Director General Research at the ECB. He was also Secretary for Monetary Policy of the ECB's Governing Council and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee. He is a part-time professor of economics at Ghent University. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and CESifo in Munich. He has written and published extensively on monetary, macroeconomic, financial and international issues mostly related to central banking in top academic journals. He holds a PhD from Yale University.

Mr George Chou has been appointed as Chief Fintech Officer from 11 September 2023 with responsibilities for facilitating the healthy development of the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong and promoting Hong Kong as a fintech hub in Asia. He joined the HKMA in 2009 and had since taken up different responsibilities in overseeing technology risk management of banks and licensing and supervision of stored value facilities before being appointed Chief Manager of the Financial Infrastructure Development Division in 2022. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Chou served various roles in Hang Seng Bank and JETCO for over 10 years. Mr Chou holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering degree and a Master of Business System degree from the Monash University, and a Master of Management degree in Financial Management from the Macquarie University.

Harald Finger is an Assistant Director in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, where he serves as mission chief for Korea and leads the work on regional financial sector issues. Harald joined the IMF in 2001, and his work experience has included a variety of countries across income levels in Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South America. As mission chief for Pakistan, Harald was responsible for one of the IMF’s largest lending programs. His experience also includes work as head of the Regional Studies Division of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department and deputy head of the Regional Studies Division of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department. Prior to joining the IMF, Harald was a Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank covering Germany and the euro area.

Haslinda Amin is Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia and anchor for Bloomberg Television. She is also host and Executive Producer of talk show ‘High Flyers’ which is the longest-running program on Bloomberg TV. Based in Singapore, Amin has been at the heart of market-moving news and stories that have driven the region’s transformation. She has reported on major events including the 2008 financial crisis, several elections across Asia including India and Indonesia which are among the world’s most populous, the 2016 Jakarta attacks and the 2010 bloody anti-government clashes in Thailand. Amin has also helmed Bloomberg’s coverage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the World Economic Forum, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Board of Governors Meeting and the ASEAN Milken Global Summit. Amin has interviewed a wide range of top newsmakers for Bloomberg Television, including Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Carrie Lam, United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad and former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Other notable interviews include Paul Volcker, Joe Biden, Mike Pompeo, Timothy Geithner and Stanley Fischer. Amin began her career covering Southeast Asian politics more than a decade ago. She serves on the board of UN Women Singapore and has been nominated numerous times for Best Current Affairs Anchor at the Asian TV Awards. She graduated from the National University of Singapore, majoring in Political Science and English Language. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia.

Hiromi Yamaoka assumed wide-ranging duties especially in the monetary policy area in the Bank of Japan. He served as a senior economist in the Policy Planning Office, Head of Large Bank Surveillance in the Financial System and Bank Examination Department, Director-General of the Markets Department, and Director-General of the Payment and Settlement Systems Department. He also worked in various international organizations including the International Monetary Fund as Alternate Executive Director for Japan, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Market Committee and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) in the Bank for International Settlements. Since 2019 he has worked in the private sector and now assumes various duties including the Committee Chair of the Tokyo Financial Award. He is now chairing the Digital Currency Forum, which consists of over 100 leading companies, banks and organizations in Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (LL.B.) and the University of California at Berkeley (LL.M.). He is an attorney at Law admitted in the State of New York. His publications include “The Future of Central Banking” (Accounting, Economics, and Law, 2019), “Managing the Exit: Lessons from Japan’s Reversal of Unconventional Monetary Policy” (co-authored with Murtaza H. Syed, IMF working paper, 2010), “Digital Innovation, Data Revolution and Central Bank Digital Currency” (co-authored with Noriyuki Yanagawa, BOJ working paper, 2019), and “Digital Currencies and the Future of Money” (The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age, 2022).

As the BIS Economic Adviser, Mr Shin co-leads the Monetary and Economic Department and is part of the Bank’s senior management as a member of its Executive Committee. Mr Shin has a background in academia. Before he took up his current position in May 2014, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, having previously held appointments at Oxford University and the London School of Economics. He has been an intellectual leader in the fields of banking, international finance and monetary economics, topics on which he has published widely, both in leading academic and official publications. One area of recent focus has been in developing the BIS’s research programme on digital innovation and the financial system, including the design of central bank digital currencies and their implications for users, financial intermediaries and the central bank. Mr Shin was part of the BIS management team that developed the BIS Innovation Hub, and served as its Interim Head at its launch in 2019. Mr Shin is a Korean national. In 2010, while on leave from Princeton University, he served as Senior Adviser to the Korean president, taking a leading role in formulating financial stability policy in Korea and developing the agenda for the G20 during Korea's presidency. Mr Shin is author of numerous publications in the fields of monetary policy, banking, finance and issues related to financial stability and further details are available: www.bis.org/author/hyun_song_shin.htm.

Kelvin is the Head of Global Fund Platform of Ant Group. Since joining Ant Group in 2016, Kelvin took a number of leadership roles in our global FX, Treasury, Solution, Partnership teams, where he led the team in building the next-generation global payment and treasury infrastructures and products, leveraging cutting-edge DLT and AI technologies to support the growing needs of small & medium enterprises in a more scalable and sustainable manner. Under Kelvin’s leadership, together with our major partner banks, including JP Morgan, Citibank, Standard Charted, Barclays, BOC and HSBC, we were able to propel transformation of FX and liquidity management framework connecting five global treasury hubs in Singapore, Hongkong, Luxembourg, New York and London, covering more than 40 currencies and across 60 entities. Ant Group was awarded the Adam Smith Awards Asia in 2021 as the winner of the Best Liquidity Management solution and jointly with Alibaba group in 2022 as winner of the Best Technology Solution. Prior to joining Ant Group, Kelvin was the Head of Citigroup Corporate Solutions for China. He was also the Head of FX of JP Morgan China from 2009 to 2010. Kelvin is an alumni of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Kristalina Georgieva currently serves as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a position she was selected for on September 25, 2019 and has served as since October 1, 2019. Before joining the IMF, Ms. Georgieva was CEO of the World Bank from January 2017 to September 2019, during which time she also served as Interim President of the World Bank Group for three months. Previously, Ms. Georgieva helped shape the agenda of the European Union while serving as European Commission Vice President for Budget and Human Resources. In this capacity she oversaw the EU’s €161 billion (US $175bn) budget and 33,000 staff, as well as the EU’s response to the Euro Area debt crisis and the 2015 refugee crisis. Before that, she was Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, managing one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid budgets. Ms. Georgieva began her career in public service at the World Bank as an environmental economist in 1993. After serving for 17 years, and in many senior positions, including Director for Sustainable Development, Director for the Russian Federation, Director for Environment, and Director for Environment and Social Development for the East Asia and Pacific Region, her career culminated in her appointment as Vice President and Corporate Secretary in 2008. In this role, she served as the interlocutor between the World Bank Group’s senior management, its Board of Directors, and its shareholder countries. Ms. Georgieva serves on many international panels including as co-Chair of the Global Commission on Adaptation, and as co-chair of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing. She has authored and co-authored over 100 publications on environmental and economic policy, including textbooks on macro- and microeconomics. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1953, Ms. Georgieva holds a Ph.D in Economic Science and a M.A. in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, where she was an Associate Professor between 1977 and 1993. During her academic career, she was visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2010, she was named “European of the Year” and “Commissioner of the Year” by European Voice in recognition for her leadership in the EU’s response to humanitarian crises. In October 2020, she received the Atlantic Council’s Distinguished International Leadership Award in acknowledgement of exceptional and distinctive contributions during her career of public service.

Kyung-Ho Choo has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance since May 2022. He was born in 1960 and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Korea University in 1983 and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oregon in 1993. Before being appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, he served as a member of the 20th and 21st National Assembly, and served as Minister of Office for Government Policy coordination(2014~2016), First Vice Minister of Economy and Finance(2013~2014), Vice Chairman of the Financial Service Commission(2011~2013) and Secretary Office of the President(2010~2011). He has held various positions in charge of the government’s macroeconomic and financial policies, and remains a steadfast figure in Korea’s pursuit of prosperity and development.

Maha is Centre Head, BIS Innovation Hub Singapore. Having been newly appointed, most recently Maha was Head of Department for Early and High Growth Oversight leading the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response to the Kalifa review of Fintech. A Senior Leadership Team member, she is setting up this new department from the ground up as part of the FCA’s strategy. Prior to this, Maha served as Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK on secondment from the FCA, responsible for running the payments operations of BACS, Faster Payments, Image Clearing Services and related managed services. Maha joined the FCA in 2017 to set up the first Payments Department and was responsible for crafting and implementing the FCA supervisory strategy for the UK Payments Sector. This included leading the implementation of the Second Payments Services Directive (PSD2) and Open Banking. Maha has a keen interest in observing and participating in the many exciting changes that are unfolding in the financial services, innovation and fintech environment. She recently sat on the SteerCo developing the strategy and blueprint for the UK’s newly created Centre for Finance Innovation and Technology. She has a Degree in Commerce from Macquarie University and a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marina Moretti is Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this capacity, she oversees the policy and technical work on financial supervision and regulation as well as on financial crisis preparedness and management. She has extensive experience across several aspects of financial stability and has published on financial crises; bank and corporate restructuring; regulatory reforms; and systemic risk analysis. In her IMF career, she has worked with member countries to promote financial soundness; has been closely involved with various international regulatory reform initiatives (including as a member of the Financial Stability Board secretariat in 2008–10); and currently represents the IMF on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). Prior to joining the IMF, she held positions with the World Bank, including its Special Financial Operations Unit (the Bank’s crisis management arm during the Asian crisis); and with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Min-Ho Nam is a Deputy Director in the Economic Research Institute of the Bank of Korea. He is currently leading the Research Planning & Coordination Team. Previously, he worked at the Research Department, Monetary Policy Department and International Department conducting research on diverse policy and economic issues. Recently, he translated the memoir of Paul Volcker, the former Fed Governor, Keeping At It in Korean. He obtained a Ph. D in Economics from University of St Andrews with a dissertation titled Essays on Housing and Monetary Policy.

Myong-Hwal Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) and the Center Head of Center for International Financial Cooperation (CIFC). He had served as the Vice President at the KIF and a Senior Advisor to the chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) in Korea, Prior to joining the KIF, he worked as an economist at the Bank of Korea. His major field of interest lies in the macro-finance, monetary policy and digital currency. Dr. Lee has authored and co-authored numerous papers and books, including “The Export Coincident Probability Indicator of Korea”(2022), “Quasi-Money Stablecoin and Private Money Issuance” (2022), “Central Bank Digital Currency and Cross-Border Payments” (2021), “Measuring the Vulnerability of Korea Stock markets in the Event of Global Financial Instability” (2020), “Understanding Central Bank Digital Currency” (2020), “Estimating Global Systemic Risk Using the G-SIBs’ CDS Premium Data” (2019), “Estimating the Integrated Risk of Financial Group Using the Vine Copula Method” (2017), “Global Financial Crisis and the Paradigm Shift of Monetary Policy” (2013), “Historical Analysis on the Recent Quantitative Easing Policy: Comparison with the Competitive Devaluations during the Great Depression” (2013), “Measuring the Systemic Risk in the Korean Banking Sector : The Copula Approach” (2013), Dr. Lee received his BA in Economics from Seoul National University, and his MS and PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Neil Esho was appointed Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in February 2022, having served in various roles within the BCBS Secretariat since 2006. During this period, Neil played a central role in the Committee’s supervisory and policy development programme, culminating in the finalisation of the Basel III regulatory reform package. Prior to joining the BIS, Neil was Head of Research at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). He holds a PhD in finance from the University of New South Wales, where he also held an academic position in the School of Banking and Finance.

Nick Tabor is Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Financial Markets in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He leads Treasury’s international engagement on financial sector issues, including cross-border financial regulation, operational resiliency, digital finance, climate-related financial risk, and sustainable finance. Previously, at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, he was a special advisor to the Board and a founding member of the Policy Planning & Strategy section in the Division of Supervision and Regulation. He worked as a senior policy advisor at the National Economic Council, chief of staff of Promontory Financial Group, and a research fellow at Harvard Law School. He holds degrees from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Harvard University.

Sandip is Regional Head of Liquidity Management Services for the Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) in Asia-pacific, a business unit of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. TTS is Citi’s core business, offering award-winning integrated cash management and trade solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations across Citi’s Global network. Based in Hong Kong, Sandip is responsible for providing an integrated suite of Citi’s Liquidity and Investments solutions across all 16 countries in Asia-pacific. These solutions are at the core of supporting clients’ Commercial and Treasury activities with an aim to optimize liquidity and funding costs. He is a member of balance sheet and various risk committees at Citi. In addition, Sandip is also leading Citi Token Services and Digital Assets client strategy for TTS and he is working closely with different clients and stakeholders to launch such services in Asia. Sandip started with Citi as a Management Associate and in the last 27 years, he has held numerous positions in India, Thailand as well in Citi’s regional office in Hong Kong. His experience spans across Sales and Client Management, Product Management, Risk Management as well as eBusiness Development functions both, locally and regionally. Prior to current role, Sandip was the Asia Sales Head for Financial Institutions Business as well as Asia Business Head for Payments, Receivables and Channels Services for TTS Asia. Sandip holds a Master of Management Studies as well as a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree from University of Mumbai, India. He was a Government of India’s National Merit Scholar and has received numerous awards including Citi’s prestigious Global Chairman’s Club award.

Serey Chea is the Governor of National Bank of Cambodia. She is passionate about financial inclusion and women economic empowerment. Achievements under her leadership include the establishment of Credit Bureau Cambodia in 2012 that propelled Cambodia’s Ease of Access to Finance to number 7 worldwide in 2017 by the World Bank, the introduction of Bakong, a national backbone payment system using DLT allowing interoperability amongst all financial service providers making financial services more accessible and affordable, and the introduction of financial literacy into the general education program. Serey holds a PhD in economics and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Seungduck Lee is an associate professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2017 from the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Seungduck began his career at the Bank of Korea in 2004, where he worked as a junior economist and later as an economist in the Economic Statistics Department, Financial Markets Department, and Economic Research Institute. His tenure at the Bank of Korea, which included periods of study leave, spanned from 2004 to 2017. He then joined the Department of Economics at Sungkyunkwan University in 2017. He has served on numerous academic and policy-related committees, both as a member and as a manager. Seungduck has extensively researched and published on digital currencies, asset prices, and financial market issues.

Shirish joined Swift in 2022 as Global Head – Wholesale Payments & Trade Strategy, based at Singapore. Shirish has over 24 years of experience and the last 16 years in Payments across retail, corporate, and financial institutions. At Swift he is responsible for the definition of “Why” for Wholesale Payments & Trade, an area that is both, core today and for the future of global commerce across the ecosystem Swift serves. Wholesale Payments & Trade is an integrated agenda that covers core payment products for B2x payments and corporate treasury; trade standards, digitisation, and trade platforms; payment market infrastructures, and marketplaces. Shirish represents Swift on the ICC Digital Standards Initiative Industry Advisory Board and is also on the Board of Directors of Swift India, a Swift joint venture with leading banks in India. Before Swift, Shirish was Managing Director & Global Head of Payments for Standard Chartered Bank. His 19-year career at Standard Chartered spanned geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, and Asia. He held multiple leadership roles encompassing Product P&L management of retail and corporate payments, currency clearing, and FI Trade finance. Most recently he led the bank’s foray into Digital Currencies and alternate settlement networks.

So Young Kim is the Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC). Born in 1967, He received a B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1996. Prior to his appointment as Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission, he was Member of 1st Economic Subcommittee, 20th Presidential Transition Committee(2022); Research Fellow at Center for Economic and Policy Research(2019-2022); Member of International Financial Development Deliberation Committee, Ministry of Strategy and Finance(2019); Member of Public Organizations Performance Evaluation Committee, Ministry of Strategy and Finance(2016); Advisory Member of Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(2014-2022); External Expert of Bank for International Settlements(2014-2015); Member of Economics Subcommittee, National Statistics Committee(2011-2017); Consultant of Asian Development Bank(2007-2021, intermittently); Research Fellow of Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research(2007-2021, intermittently); Visiting Scholar of International Monetary Fund(2006-2010, intermittently); Advisory Professor of Bank of Korea (Research Dept., International Dept., ERI, Reserve Management Group)(2005-2019, intermittently) He was also Professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University(2009-present); Visiting Scholar of Princeton University(2013-2014); Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(1997-2004).

Stefan Ingves is the former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank and Chairman of the Executive Board. He currently chairs the board of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision. Mr. Stefan Ingves has held the position of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BIS and was the Chair of the BIS Banking and Risk Management Committee (BRC). He was also a Member of the General Council of the ECB and First Vice Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and also Governor for Sweden in the IMF, Board Member of the Nordic-Baltic Macroprudential Forum (NBMF). Mr. Ingves was also previously Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Director of the Monetary and Financial Systems Department at the IMF, Deputy Governor of the Riksbank and General Director of the Swedish Bank Support Authority. Prior to that he was Head of the Financial Markets Department at the Ministry of Finance in Sweden. Stefan Ingves holds a PhD in economics.

Steven Maijoor joined the Executive Board of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) on 1 April 2021. Steven's remit includes supervision of banks, horizontal functions and integrity supervision, and legal services. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB). Before joining DNB's Executive Board, Steven was Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), from 2011-2021. Between 2004 and 2011 he was a managing director at the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). Prior to that he was Professor (1994-2004) and Dean (2001-2004) at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University. Steven graduated from the University of Groningen with a degree in business economics and obtained a PhD in the same subject from Maastricht University in 1991. Steven was born in Hong Kong (1964).

Dr. Sunghwan Shin is a member of the Monetary Policy Board of the Bank of Korea since July 2022. Before joining the Board, he was a professor of Finance at Hongik University. He also served as a president of Korea Institute of Finance, a member of steering committee at Korea Investment Corporation, and a senior financial officer at the World Bank. Dr. Shin received a B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Finance from MIT.

Sunyoung Park is an associate professor at Economics Department of Dongguk University and serves as the Dean of International Affairs. Her research interests include banking and regulation, financial intermediation, and international financial markets. She is a member of the Future Forum on Money and Banking at the Bank of Korea, a member of the Advisory Committee on Foreign Asset Management, a member of the Advisory Committee on Financial Supervision, a member of the Financial Development Review Committee of the Financial Services Commission and a member of the Public-Private Task Force on Digital Assets, advising on financial supervision and financial policy in Korea. She is actively involved in advising pension funds, including serving as a member of the Investment Pool Management Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, a member of the Fiduciary Responsibility Committee of Korea Teachers Pension, a member of the Risk Management Committee of the Government Employees Pension Service, and a member of the Asset Management Committee of the Housing and Urban Fund of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport. She received her B.A. from the Department of Economics at Seoul National University and her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Yale University. She received the commendation from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance in 2014, and the commendation from the Chairman of Financial Services Commission twice in 2016 and 2021.

Taehyoung Cho, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, is currently the Director General of Economic Research Institute at the Bank of Korea. Since beginning his career at the Bank in 1995, after graduation from Seoul National University, Dr. Cho has worked in the areas of the Korean economy, the international commodity markets, global economic issues, producers’ prices, national accounts statistics, capital measurement and productivity analysis, North Korean economic studies, etc. Especially he was a major developer of the official Korean national balance sheet including financial and non-financial assets during 2008 to 2017. He also produced in-depth papers on the North Korean economic growth during the last several years. At present, he is doing research, above all, on decomposing Korea’s past economic growth, forecasting its long future growth, and drawing key strategies to maintain its growth potential. He has a priority interest in reviving the economy under the declining and aging population, and reallocating industries and investment domestically and globally under the new demographics. Additionally, he also deals with the issue of how the US-China economic gap will evolve in the coming years and what risks and opportunities will arise during the progress

Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this capacity, he leads the IMF’s work on financial sector surveillance, monetary and macroprudential policies, digital money, financial regulation, bank resolution, debt management, capital markets, and climate finance. He also oversees capacity building activities in IMF member countries with regard to the supervision and regulation of financial systems, bank resolution, central banking, monetary and exchange rate regimes, central bank digital currency, and debt management. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Adrian was a Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group. At the Federal Reserve, he contributed to monetary policy, financial stability policies, and to crisis management. Mr. Adrian has published extensively in economics and finance journals. His research spans macro-finance, monetary policy, financial stability, and climate finance, with a focus on aggregate consequences of capital markets developments. He has taught at Princeton University and New York University. He is member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Central Banking and the Annual Review of Financial Economics. Mr. Adrian holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics, an MSc from the London School of Economics in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, a Diplom from Goethe University Frankfurt and a Maîtrise from Dauphine University Paris. He received his Abitur in Literature and Mathematics from Humboldtschule Bad Homburg.

Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli is the Division Chief of the Payments, Currencies, and Infrastructure division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His work focuses on digital currencies and payments, monetary policy, foreign exchange interventions, modelling, and central banking operations and communication. He has advised country authorities and published widely on these topics. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Mancini-Griffoli was a senior economist in the Research and Monetary Policy Division of the Swiss National Bank, where he advised the Board on quarterly monetary policy decisions. Mr. Mancini-Griffoli spent prior years in the private sector, at Goldman Sachs, the Boston Consulting Group, and technology startups in the Silicon Valley. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and prior degrees from the London School of Economics and Stanford University.

Tony Richards is Senior Advisor at the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre and was Chair of the Steering Committee for the recently completed central bank digital currency (CBDC) project with the Reserve Bank of Australia. He previously held senior roles at the RBA including Head of Economic Research, Head of Economic Analysis and Head of Payments Policy. As Head of Payments Policy, he led the RBA’s work on retail payments, crypto-assets and CBDCs, real-time payments and financial market infrastructures. He was a member of the Basel-based Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures over 2012-21. His research has been published in leading international economics and finance journals. He is a GAICD and holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Sydney, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the George Washington University.

Miyoshi Toshiyuki was appointed Vice Commissioner for International Affairs of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s financial regulatory body, on 4 July 2023. He currently heads the FSA’s international affairs group and represents the FSA at working-level meetings of the G20 and G7. He is also the FSA’s alternate member of the Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Prior to the current position, Mr. Miyoshi was Deputy Director-General of the Supervision Bureau from June 2022 to July 2023 and worked on supervision of Japan’s major banks and insurance companies, and branches and subsidiaries of foreign banks and insurance companies in Japan. He was Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs from July 2020 to June 2022, working on the FSB and financial sector issues at the G20 and G7. Before moving to the FSA, Mr. Miyoshi was division director at Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) from July 2014 to July 2020. He played a central role in developing the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment and the debt sustainability agenda under Japan's G20 Presidency in 2019. From June 2016 to July 2018, Mr. Miyoshi was responsible for organising the MOF's work on G20, G7 and IMF issues. He also worked on government debt management in 2014-16. A Japanese national, Mr. Miyoshi got Bachelor’s degree in public law at the University of Tokyo and Master of Philosophy in Politics at the University of Oxford.

Veerathai Santiprabhob is a macroeconomist and financial professional with 30 years of experience in economic policy design, commercial banking, and capital market. He was the 20th governor of the Bank of Thailand (October 2015-September 2020). During his term, he provided leadership in digital transformation of the Thai financial system and steering Thailand’s macroeconomic and financial stability. He held senior executive positions at the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Siam Commercial Bank and served on a number of national committees that set economic and financial policy. He was also a member of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) and served as the Chair of the Central Bank Governance Group of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the BIS Asian Consultative Council, and the Southeast Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Board of Governors. At present, Veerathai serves as an independent director of leading corporations and institutions. He has participated actively in social activities focusing on sustainability, education, and Buddhism. He is a member of the board of Chiang Mai University, Vajiravudh College, and Thailand Development Research Institute, as well as the oversight committee of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). He earned a Ph.D. and A.M. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors) from Thammasat University. He was awarded Anandamahidol Foundation Scholarship, Eisenhower Fellowship, and S.R. Nathan Fellowship.

Yoseop JUN is the Director General of the Financial Innovation Bureau, Financial Services Commission (FSC). Born in 1970, He received a B.A. in Business Administration from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Missouri State University. Previously he was also Director General of the Financial & Corporate Restructuring Policy Bureau(2022-2023), Director General of the Regulatory Operation Bureau of Korea Financial Intelligence Unit(2022) and Director of Planning & Administration Office of Korea Financial Intelligence Unit(2020-2022).