Simone is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab at the University of Cambridge. The Lab is digitally transforming financial supervision and supervisory authorities through research, executive education, software development, and the curation of a collective of innovation leaders who are reshaping this ecosystem.  

He is a public policy specialist and frontier digital economy and financial market leader with 15 years of high-impact engagement in the fields of banking, payments, telecoms, and technology. His passion is evidence-based, data-informed policymaking, as well as the use of technology and innovative processes to pursue economic efficiency and social equality. He has extensive experience in regulatory and policy development, private sector partnership, advocacy, and academia. 

Simone's specialisation is the creation of new processes and solutions to address complex problems, strategizing synergies of multiple stakeholders to enhance their individual and collective impacts. Always with an emphasis on reducing digital and economic divides to pursue inclusiveness and social justice. 

Among the ground-breaking initiatives that Simone has conceived and implemented in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the GSMA Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Consumer Empowerment and Market Conduct working group. Simone has previously held roles at the GSMA, the World Bank, the United Nations, AFI, the International Development Law Organization, and the consulting firm BFA Global. He has led engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, USAID, the Better Than Cash Alliance, Facebook, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the New York Department of Financial Services, and countless fintech startups, banks, central banks, and finance ministries. For two years, he taught a course on "Digital Citizenship & Approaches to Development" at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. 

He holds a PhD in Law & Economics. 

Hasan Fawzi is Indonesia Financial Services Authority’s (OJK) Chief Executive of Financial Technology Innovation, Digital Financial Assets, and Crypto Assets as well as a member of OJK Board of Commissioners.

He has more than 30 year experience in the Indonesian capital market and financial industry. 

Prior to his current position at OJK, Hasan Fawzi served concurrently as the President Commissioner of PEFINDO Credit Bureau (2022–2023); President Commissioner and Independent Commissioner on of RHB Sekuritas Indonesia (2022–2023); and Independent Commissioner of Merdeka Battery Materials Tbk (2023). His previous positions include Director of Development for Indonesia Stock Exchange (2018-2022); President Director of Indonesia Securities Clearing and Guarantee (for two consecutive terms 2012-2018); and Director of Indonesia Securities Pricing Agency (2008-2012).

He began his career at Indonesia Central Securities Depository (1993-1997) as the Head of System Development and subsequently joined Indonesia Securities Clearing and Guarantee (1997–2008), where his last position was Head of Information Technology Division.

Hasan Fawzi holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Institute of Technology Bandung, majoring in Informatics Engineering. He then obtained two master’s degrees in Business Administration from the L'IAE de Grenoble, Universite Pierre Mendes, France as well as in Management from Economics and Business school from the University of Indonesia.

Jermy joined the Financial Stability Institute of the BIS in 2016. He is involved in managing the FSI's outreach programme for financial supervisors. He contributes to the FSI's published work, mainly on technology-related topics such as fintech, suptech and cyber security, and develops other policy-related material for FSI Connect. He also manages the activities of the Informal Suptech Network and coordinates the FSI's work related to financial inclusion. Previously, he was Deputy Director for Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of International Finance in Washington DC, where he led the formulation of the global banking industry's views on international regulatory issues. He also worked as a regulator in the Philippines, where he headed the Task Force on Basel II Implementation.

Daniela is Deputy Director General in Banking Supervision at the European Central Bank. She joined the ECB in July 1998. She held various positions in HR, Risk Management and Statistics and has always promoted innovative and data-driven ways of working.

Adam Scott is the Director of Design and Development at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where his team uses human-centered design and open source technologies to amplify the CFPB’s mission. His work has been at the crossroads of technology, design, and education for nearly two decades. Adam is also the author of seven books, including JavaScript Everywhere (O’Reilly Media, 2020) and JavaScript Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2022)

Lukasz Kubicki is the Head of the Supervision Technology Section at the European Central Bank. His team is responsible for driving the implementation of cutting-edge technologies across the ECB Banking Supervision. Lukasz Kubicki joined the SSM in 2015 and since then he has led a number of SSM-wide projects and initiatives. He has also worked in McKinsey&Co managing engagements in the area of strategy and digitalisation in the banking sector. Lukasz Kubicki holds a PhD degree in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics.

Whitney has been with the Federal Reserve for 10+ years in Supervision and Regulation. She is currently a business advisor focusing on strategy, risk, and innovation within supervision and works with the System Innovation Office to connect innovation with supervision. 

Matt is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision.  

He is a seasoned leader in expanding the frontier of the digital technology space, with over 15 years of broad-ranging, global experience to draw from. His driving passion throughout has been maximising impact through effectively applied technologies, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of otherwise excluded or vulnerable people. This pursuit has led him into roles as a pioneering fintech entrepreneur, startup acceleration fund lead, hackathon & techsprint organiser, innovation gallery curator, academic lecturer, and strategic advisor for myriad financial innovation and digital transformation initiatives. 

Matt’s specialisation is in the collaborative design, deployment, and integration of digital technologies. Within the bounds of financial services and supervision, he often serves as a translator in cutting through the intimidating jargon and hype that can plague cutting-edge tech, and instead guides an earnest exploration of the real value of these tools through practical demonstration cases. 

Among the programs that Matt has collaboratively led in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the Catalyst Fund Startup Accelerator, the GSMA’s Mobile Money Profitability 2.0 model, and the Target Product Profile framework for development of inclusive payments products. He previously founded Bytemark, a mobile payments and transit ticketing platform, LDLN, a decentralised communication platform for underserved communities, and What Is Up Labs, a creative cooperative focused on rapid prototyping. Prior to the Lab, he most recently served a Principal Consultant at BFA Global. 

Matt holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and formal certifications in Data Science, Social Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, and Humanitarian Innovation. 

Iman van Lelyveld heads the Data Science Hub at De Nederlandsche Bank, is Professor of Banking and Financial Markets at the Finance Group of the VU Amsterdam and a visiting professor at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been involved in many regulatory policy issues at the Basel Committee and in particular in the Research Task Force – chairing several groups. He has published widely on international banking and financial networks and has worked for Deutsche Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). At the BIS he helped to setup analysis of the exposure network of the largest banks in the world. His current interest is to foster cooperation amongst central banks and supervisors through the deployment of open source tooling.

Sunayna joined the Federal Reserve System in 2021 as its first Chief Innovation Officer. With a bias for action, she leads the Fed's innovation agenda, in collaboration with business and technology partners to strengthen innovation culture across the 12 Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors, and to ship meaningful outcomes that deliver value to the constituents and communities that we serve. Sunayna also leads the Fed’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) research and development program.

Sunayna brings 10+ years of global experience leading change and innovation at the nexus of finance, technology and policy. Prior to the Fed she advanced digital transformation as a builder, operator and venture investor within the fintech and crypto ecosystem, in North America and Asia. She is a proud alumna of the University of Alberta and Stanford.

When she’s not nerding out on all things innovation, you can find Sunayna adventuring the skies in her Cessna.

Simone is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab at the University of Cambridge. The Lab is digitally transforming financial supervision and supervisory authorities through research, executive education, software development, and the curation of a collective of innovation leaders who are reshaping this ecosystem.  

He is a public policy specialist and frontier digital economy and financial market leader with 15 years of high-impact engagement in the fields of banking, payments, telecoms, and technology. His passion is evidence-based, data-informed policymaking, as well as the use of technology and innovative processes to pursue economic efficiency and social equality. He has extensive experience in regulatory and policy development, private sector partnership, advocacy, and academia. 

Simone's specialisation is the creation of new processes and solutions to address complex problems, strategizing synergies of multiple stakeholders to enhance their individual and collective impacts. Always with an emphasis on reducing digital and economic divides to pursue inclusiveness and social justice. 

Among the ground-breaking initiatives that Simone has conceived and implemented in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the GSMA Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Consumer Empowerment and Market Conduct working group. Simone has previously held roles at the GSMA, the World Bank, the United Nations, AFI, the International Development Law Organization, and the consulting firm BFA Global. He has led engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, USAID, the Better Than Cash Alliance, Facebook, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the New York Department of Financial Services, and countless fintech startups, banks, central banks, and finance ministries. For two years, he taught a course on "Digital Citizenship & Approaches to Development" at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. 

He holds a PhD in Law & Economics. 

Cecilia Skingsley became Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in September 2022. She is a member of the BIS's Executive Committee. Previously, she held the position of First Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank since November 2019.

Most recently she chaired the BIS's Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Future of Payments Working Group, was the Governor of the Riksbank's alternate on the General Council of the ECB and a member of the Advisory Technical Committee (ATC) of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

Ms Skingsley was Deputy Governor of the Riksbank from May 2013 to November 2019. Prior to that position she held various roles including Head of FX and Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at Swedbank (2007-13), financial journalist and Head of Financial Markets Section at Dagens Indutri (2000-07) and Macro Analyst at ABN Amro Bank (1998-2000).

Ms Skingsley holds a degree in economics and political science from Stockholm University. She received a financial analyst degree from SSE Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (formerly IFL at Stockholm School of Economics) and studied journalism at Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm.

This session explores the role that suptech is playing in enabling and supporting risk-based supervision. Advanced technologies such as big data analytics, machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and network analysis are being deployed to identify, assess, classify risks and thus prioritize the supervisory actions. The goal is to improve risks identification and management with a more effective and efficient utilisation of limited supervisory resources. The panel will also discuss the required skills to interpret the output of these systems and integrate insights into the supervisory process.

Magno Condori is a seasoned IT professional with over 25 years of experience in the financial sector. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Superintendent, Information System and Technology Supervision at the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators in Peru (SBS), where he works in supervision and regulation of information technology practices in financial institutions in the country. 

Prior to joining the SBS’s supervision team, Magno Condori held various software engineering positions in the public and private sector

Javier has been a banking supervisor for the last 18 years both at the ECB and BdE. He has experience in on-site missions as a HoM. During his four years at the ECB he participated in the AQR, stress test and was member of a JST. He has PhD in finance a masters in auditing and a degree in economics and business administration.

Currently, he is the HoD in the Grupo de Análisis de la Información  y Suptech in BdE. This division is in charge of the management of supervisory information at BdE. Namely, reporting (i.e. FINREP, COREP) and CIR (the spanish version of Anacredit). Among our functions are the creation of these kind of suptech and big data tools

Simone is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab at the University of Cambridge. The Lab is digitally transforming financial supervision and supervisory authorities through research, executive education, software development, and the curation of a collective of innovation leaders who are reshaping this ecosystem.  

He is a public policy specialist and frontier digital economy and financial market leader with 15 years of high-impact engagement in the fields of banking, payments, telecoms, and technology. His passion is evidence-based, data-informed policymaking, as well as the use of technology and innovative processes to pursue economic efficiency and social equality. He has extensive experience in regulatory and policy development, private sector partnership, advocacy, and academia. 

Simone's specialisation is the creation of new processes and solutions to address complex problems, strategizing synergies of multiple stakeholders to enhance their individual and collective impacts. Always with an emphasis on reducing digital and economic divides to pursue inclusiveness and social justice. 

Among the ground-breaking initiatives that Simone has conceived and implemented in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the GSMA Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Consumer Empowerment and Market Conduct working group. Simone has previously held roles at the GSMA, the World Bank, the United Nations, AFI, the International Development Law Organization, and the consulting firm BFA Global. He has led engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, USAID, the Better Than Cash Alliance, Facebook, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the New York Department of Financial Services, and countless fintech startups, banks, central banks, and finance ministries. For two years, he taught a course on "Digital Citizenship & Approaches to Development" at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. 

He holds a PhD in Law & Economics. 

Mr. Korhonen, with 20 years of experience in data and analytics roles at central banks and regulators across the EU, UK, and Qatar, currently leads the Financial Analysis and Innovation Department at the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority. He champions a vision for AI-assisted supervision, seeking to minimise manual data management and administrative workflows and enabling experts to concentrate on supervisory assessments and judgement.

Matt is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision.  

He is a seasoned leader in expanding the frontier of the digital technology space, with over 15 years of broad-ranging, global experience to draw from. His driving passion throughout has been maximising impact through effectively applied technologies, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of otherwise excluded or vulnerable people. This pursuit has led him into roles as a pioneering fintech entrepreneur, startup acceleration fund lead, hackathon & techsprint organiser, innovation gallery curator, academic lecturer, and strategic advisor for myriad financial innovation and digital transformation initiatives. 

Matt’s specialisation is in the collaborative design, deployment, and integration of digital technologies. Within the bounds of financial services and supervision, he often serves as a translator in cutting through the intimidating jargon and hype that can plague cutting-edge tech, and instead guides an earnest exploration of the real value of these tools through practical demonstration cases. 

Among the programs that Matt has collaboratively led in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the Catalyst Fund Startup Accelerator, the GSMA’s Mobile Money Profitability 2.0 model, and the Target Product Profile framework for development of inclusive payments products. He previously founded Bytemark, a mobile payments and transit ticketing platform, LDLN, a decentralised communication platform for underserved communities, and What Is Up Labs, a creative cooperative focused on rapid prototyping. Prior to the Lab, he most recently served a Principal Consultant at BFA Global. 

Matt holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and formal certifications in Data Science, Social Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, and Humanitarian Innovation. 

Elizabeth M. Adams, a distinguished influencer in Responsible AI, stands out as one of Forbes' "15 AI Ethics Leaders Showing The World The Way Of The Future." With over two decades of experience at the forefront of technology and business, Elizabeth has spearheaded significant initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and various government organizations. 

Passionate about sharing her findings, Elizabeth actively disseminates her research on a global scale, contributing to the ongoing dialogue on responsible and ethical AI leadership.

Mr Nymand-Andersen has over 27 years of Central Banking Experiences and was part of creating and developing the European Central Bank from scratch. Per has developed his expertise in Banking, Financial Markets, Fintech, Data Science, Securities Settlement Systems, Statistics and Management. · Per holds several Fintech/data science Advisory Board positions in private and simi-public organisations. · Per is a lecturer at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and is a frequent speaker at international events and author of several publications/articles. His recent book “Data science in Economics and Finance for Decision Makers” was published by Riskbooks.com. · Founder of Datawave Analytics, Data Science, Fintech, ML, AI in banking and Finance · Per holds an MBA in Economics and Management Science from Copenhagen Business School and has a Fintech certificate from Harvard University. · More info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/per-nymand-andersen-81609913

Edita is currently the Head of Data Governance Unit at the Bank of Lithuania. She is one of key persons behind the Bank’s Data Management Strategy. She is working on defining and setting the new data governance framework in the Bank of Lithuania. 

Edita has over 15 years experience in the banking sector, from which 6 years in central banking. Before being appointed as Head of Data Governance Unit, Edita worked on the implementation of the new national Central Credit Register and on the project of analytical credit datasets (AnaCredit). Before that, she was heading the Loan Administration Unit in one of the small private banks in Lithuania.

Patrick is an Advisor at the Bank for International Settlement Innovation Hub (BISIH) Singapore leading the hub‘s work on SupTech/RegTech and Green Finance. Before being seconded to the BISIH Singapore, Patrick worked for Deutsche Bundesbank for more than 15 years in various positions, most recently as a Head of Section in Banking Supervision. Together with his team, he was involved in supervising some of the largest banks in the euro area. Furthermore, Patrick spent three years with the German Federal Foreign Office to work as a Head of Section at the German Embassy in Singapore.

Patrick has been a post-doctoral Associate at the Institute for Leadership and Organization at LMU Munich School of Management for more than ten years. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Patrick holds a Doctor in Business and Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, a Master's degree (Dipl.-Kaufmann) from the University of Mannheim, and a Bachelor's degree (BA in Business Management) from Napier University Edinburgh.

Beju Shah is the Head of the BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre. Prior to his appointment, Mr Shah helped drive innovation for almost a decade at the Bank of England and led projects, strategy and proofs of concept on a wide variety of topics, such as central bank digital currencies, regtech, suptech and data standards, among others, as well as championing open finance platforms, digital identity and digital climate disclosures. A UK national, he holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Manchester.

Adrian is currently seconded from the Bank of England to APRA where he is the Head of Innovation, and has responsibility for the organisation’s Data Science function. He also has Leadership Team responsibilities in the areas of Data Strategy and APRA’s Suptech journey. Prior to APRA Adrian had a number of Technical Leadership roles in Data Science and Technology areas of the PRA / Bank of England. He has spoken widely on the topics of Implementing Data Science and Big Data solutions for informing decision making. He authored the chapter on “Implementing Big Data Solutions” for the book “Data Science in Economics and Finance for Decision Makers”. He sits on the BIS Innovation Hub Regtech / Suptech Work Group; the IAIS (International Association of Insurance Supervisors) Fintech Forum and is part of their AI/ML sub-committee; and the APS (Australian Public Service) AI Steering Committee. When he is not getting excited about all things Tech, Data and Machine Learning Adrian likes to spend time with his family and do just enough exercise to claim he likes to stay fit.

Dr. David Whyte is currently the Head of Corporate Security and the Head of the Cyber Resilience Coordination Centre (CRCC) at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). As Head of Corporate Security, he is responsible for overseeing all physical and IT security functions that protect the bank’s global banking and research operations. This includes security systems engineering, governance and assurance activities, as well as leading the BIS’s Cyber Security Operations Centre (SOC) that performs incident response activities, continuous compliance with the SWIFT Customer Security Programme (CSP), and threat intelligence led cyber threat hunting. In his role as the Head of the CRCC, he is responsible for leading and developing the Bank’s international cyber resilience coordination activities that includes conducting cyber security seminars, cyber range exercises, and performing outreach activities for a central bank community that represents countries from around the world that together account for 95% of the world GDP.

Abhisekh is the Senior Data Scientist at the Cambridge SupTech Lab. He has worked on a wide range of machine learning/artificial intelligence solutions across different domains, including those related to natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, simulation, and anomaly detection.  

Abhisekh previously worked for the United States Department of Homeland Security and the Center for Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis, using NLP to extract knowledge graphs of different criminal entities. He also optimized mitigation strategies to counteract these entities by implementing simulation models of supply chains for companies such as Lockheed Martin and Pfizer. Abhisekh has also worked on computer vision problems such as noise cancellation and anomaly detection for the Naval Research Laboratory. He is currently completing his PhD in Computer Science at George Mason University. 

Christopher Guess is a leader in data collection and analysis for the last 20 years working on financial supervision, investigative journalism, technical security and policy. He has previously worked with such organizations as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Duke University, the University of Missouri, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, the Bank for International Settlements and others.

Matt is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision.  

He is a seasoned leader in expanding the frontier of the digital technology space, with over 15 years of broad-ranging, global experience to draw from. His driving passion throughout has been maximising impact through effectively applied technologies, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of otherwise excluded or vulnerable people. This pursuit has led him into roles as a pioneering fintech entrepreneur, startup acceleration fund lead, hackathon & techsprint organiser, innovation gallery curator, academic lecturer, and strategic advisor for myriad financial innovation and digital transformation initiatives. 

Matt’s specialisation is in the collaborative design, deployment, and integration of digital technologies. Within the bounds of financial services and supervision, he often serves as a translator in cutting through the intimidating jargon and hype that can plague cutting-edge tech, and instead guides an earnest exploration of the real value of these tools through practical demonstration cases. 

Among the programs that Matt has collaboratively led in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the Catalyst Fund Startup Accelerator, the GSMA’s Mobile Money Profitability 2.0 model, and the Target Product Profile framework for development of inclusive payments products. He previously founded Bytemark, a mobile payments and transit ticketing platform, LDLN, a decentralised communication platform for underserved communities, and What Is Up Labs, a creative cooperative focused on rapid prototyping. Prior to the Lab, he most recently served a Principal Consultant at BFA Global. 

Matt holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and formal certifications in Data Science, Social Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, and Humanitarian Innovation. 

Paolo Giudici is a Professor of Statistics.

Author of several scientific publications, with an h-index of 45 (Google scholar), 33 (Scopus), 28 (Clarivate), which mainly concern statistical learning models to obtain predictions and risk metrics in economics and finance.

Coordinator of 12 funded scientific projects, among which the European Horizon2020 projects “PERISCOPE: Pan-European response to the impacts of covid-19 and future pandemics and epidemics (2020-2023)” and “FIN-TECH: Financial supervision and Technological compliance" (2019-2020). The projects have supported the 

research activity of 18 Phd students and of 13 Post-doc researchers at: 

https://sites.google.com/unipv.it/statslab-pavia

Editor of the scientific journals "Statistics”, Taylor and Francis, and “Artificial Intelligence”, Frontiers. Editorial board member of “Journal of data science and analytics”, Springer, and of “Risks”, Mdpi. 

Member of the ISO/IEC and CEN/CELENEC expert groups on Artificial Intelligence standards. Research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements and at the University College London center for Blockchain technologies. 

Expert advisor for the European Commission, the European University Institute, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, the Italian Ministry of Development, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Banking Association. Board member of Credito Valtellinese bank (2010-2018).

Elected fellow of the International Statistical Institute; Honorary member of the Italian Association of Financial Risk Managers (AIFIRM); member of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), of the European Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

Matt is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision.  

He is a seasoned leader in expanding the frontier of the digital technology space, with over 15 years of broad-ranging, global experience to draw from. His driving passion throughout has been maximising impact through effectively applied technologies, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of otherwise excluded or vulnerable people. This pursuit has led him into roles as a pioneering fintech entrepreneur, startup acceleration fund lead, hackathon & techsprint organiser, innovation gallery curator, academic lecturer, and strategic advisor for myriad financial innovation and digital transformation initiatives. 

Matt’s specialisation is in the collaborative design, deployment, and integration of digital technologies. Within the bounds of financial services and supervision, he often serves as a translator in cutting through the intimidating jargon and hype that can plague cutting-edge tech, and instead guides an earnest exploration of the real value of these tools through practical demonstration cases. 

Among the programs that Matt has collaboratively led in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the Catalyst Fund Startup Accelerator, the GSMA’s Mobile Money Profitability 2.0 model, and the Target Product Profile framework for development of inclusive payments products. He previously founded Bytemark, a mobile payments and transit ticketing platform, LDLN, a decentralised communication platform for underserved communities, and What Is Up Labs, a creative cooperative focused on rapid prototyping. Prior to the Lab, he most recently served a Principal Consultant at BFA Global. 

Matt holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and formal certifications in Data Science, Social Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, and Humanitarian Innovation. 

Prior to joining FinRegLab, Kelly helped to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she served most recently as the Assistant Director for Regulations. In that capacity, she oversaw rulemaking and guidance activities under the Dodd-Frank Act, Electronic Fund Transfer Act, and various other federal consumer financial laws. Kelly previously was counsel at WilmerHale, where she advised financial institutions on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters including product development, compliance, enforcement, and litigation. Kelly also conducted research on financial services innovation, community reinvestment, and other topics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Simone is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab at the University of Cambridge. The Lab is digitally transforming financial supervision and supervisory authorities through research, executive education, software development, and the curation of a collective of innovation leaders who are reshaping this ecosystem.  

He is a public policy specialist and frontier digital economy and financial market leader with 15 years of high-impact engagement in the fields of banking, payments, telecoms, and technology. His passion is evidence-based, data-informed policymaking, as well as the use of technology and innovative processes to pursue economic efficiency and social equality. He has extensive experience in regulatory and policy development, private sector partnership, advocacy, and academia. 

Simone's specialisation is the creation of new processes and solutions to address complex problems, strategizing synergies of multiple stakeholders to enhance their individual and collective impacts. Always with an emphasis on reducing digital and economic divides to pursue inclusiveness and social justice. 

Among the ground-breaking initiatives that Simone has conceived and implemented in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the GSMA Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Consumer Empowerment and Market Conduct working group. Simone has previously held roles at the GSMA, the World Bank, the United Nations, AFI, the International Development Law Organization, and the consulting firm BFA Global. He has led engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, USAID, the Better Than Cash Alliance, Facebook, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the New York Department of Financial Services, and countless fintech startups, banks, central banks, and finance ministries. For two years, he taught a course on "Digital Citizenship & Approaches to Development" at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. 

He holds a PhD in Law & Economics. 

Juliet is the Senior SupTech Specialist at the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision. 

She has over 15 years of experience working with Government entities and Financial Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia in developing, deploying, and positioning innovative, large-scale regional and retail digital payment systems from ideation to execution. Her areas of expertise include policy design, DFS strategy development, product innovation, and design using Human-Centred Design approaches, data analytics, and responsible finance.  

Juliet has previously held roles at MicroSave Consulting and Musoni Microfinance where she undertook various roles, from identifying strategies, business opportunities, and new technologies in order to develop new capabilities and architectures to converting data into insights that inform innovative, commercially viable solutions for streamlining business processes with a strong customer focus. She has also served for more than ten years at the Central Bank of Kenya in the modernisation of payment systems, policies, and regulations for, among others, the CBK Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, East African Payments System (EAPSS), and the COMESA Regional Payment and Settlement System (REPSS).  

She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. 

Peter Cai is a member of the Risk Management Executive Committee, and the global head of Risk Data, Analytics, Reporting & Technology (DART).

Peter has well-rounded experience in risk infrastructure and governance across securities, banking and insurance. Prior to joining Citi, Peter was at Barclays where he oversaw risk in the global asset-liability profile and investments, responsible for the ALM/IRRBB framework, quantitative analytics and regulatory requirements.

Peter has prior experience at Global Atlantic (formerly Goldman Sachs Reinsurance) as the Chief Risk Officer, as well as Morgan Stanley in Enterprise Risk Management and Lehman Brothers in Global Credit Trading/Fixed Income.

As the head of Risk Data, Analytics, Reporting & Technology, Peter oversees risk data aggregation, controls, reporting and analysis across all risk teams. Peter is also the Risk Data Transformation Sponsor accountable for Risk’s overall data efforts, working closely with all risk stripes, Chief Data Office, Finance and Operations & Technology.

Peter has a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Pennsylvania State University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mechanics from Fudan University in China.

Drew Propson is the Head of Technology and Innovation in Financial Services at the World Economic Forum. She leads a portfolio of initiatives focused on advancing innovation while maintaining financial system stability. Current and recent work has centred on AI and emerging technologies in financial services, technology-driven systemic risks, and the evolution of the fintech industry. Drew has additionally presented and authored work on financial inclusion, entrepreneurship and fintech regulation. 

Drew holds MBAs from Columbia Business School and London Business School, a PhD in Spanish literature from UC Berkeley, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Washington. Her experience prior to joining the Forum includes private equity research, development finance, and international strategy and operations.

Antoine is leading the SupTech Product at Regnology in order to manage the evolution of the Regnology solutions for the supervisory bodies. Before that, Antoine was in charge of driving and coordinating the regulatory products and services strategy at Invoke, a software company which joined the Regnology group in July 2023. Working in this industry for more than 20 years, he also participates in several European working groups dedicated to supervisory reporting. 

Matt is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab, a multimillion, multiyear initiative to craft the digital future of financial supervision.  

He is a seasoned leader in expanding the frontier of the digital technology space, with over 15 years of broad-ranging, global experience to draw from. His driving passion throughout has been maximising impact through effectively applied technologies, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of otherwise excluded or vulnerable people. This pursuit has led him into roles as a pioneering fintech entrepreneur, startup acceleration fund lead, hackathon & techsprint organiser, innovation gallery curator, academic lecturer, and strategic advisor for myriad financial innovation and digital transformation initiatives. 

Matt’s specialisation is in the collaborative design, deployment, and integration of digital technologies. Within the bounds of financial services and supervision, he often serves as a translator in cutting through the intimidating jargon and hype that can plague cutting-edge tech, and instead guides an earnest exploration of the real value of these tools through practical demonstration cases. 

Among the programs that Matt has collaboratively led in the past are the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A), the Catalyst Fund Startup Accelerator, the GSMA’s Mobile Money Profitability 2.0 model, and the Target Product Profile framework for development of inclusive payments products. He previously founded Bytemark, a mobile payments and transit ticketing platform, LDLN, a decentralised communication platform for underserved communities, and What Is Up Labs, a creative cooperative focused on rapid prototyping. Prior to the Lab, he most recently served a Principal Consultant at BFA Global. 

Matt holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and formal certifications in Data Science, Social Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, and Humanitarian Innovation. 

Dr Patrick Saidu Conteh is a financial sector and development finance professional with over twenty-five years of combined experience spanning the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. A trusted international speaker on Africa's fintech and wider digital finance ecosystem. 

Patrick is currently the CEO of the Africa Fintech Network (AFN)- Africa’s fintech advocacy body for catalysing digital economic development across the continent. With HQ in Nigeria, AFN, has in its membership 40 Fintech Associations (including Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Rwanda, Mauritius, etc.) and strategic partners like the Africa Development Bank, Ecobank Transnational, etc. 

Patrick was in the recent past, LEPDA/USAID Senior Economic Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning of Liberia and before that Resident Advisor at the Central Bank of Liberia.

Patrick was Regional Lead for Sub Sahara Africa overseeing a unique collaboration between Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF, UK) and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA), to strengthen the creation, dissemination, and adoption of FinTech-related knowledge in the continent. 

He was Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone, where amongst other reform initiatives, he pioneered one of Africa’s first regulatory sandboxes as part of an overarching financial inclusion strategy. Before that, he served as Minister of State for fiscal affairs Sierra Leone. 

Patrick also served as Alternate Executive Director at the African Development Bank contributing to the formulation and implementation of major developmental programs and projects across Africa. 

His earlier career was in commercial/retail banking holding various senior management and exiting at the level of Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer.

Alvin is currently with the Market Conduct, Data Analytics, and Policy Group or MCDAPG of Consumer Protection and Market Conduct Office (CPMCO). In this capacity, he leads and supervises the data team responsible for managing the CPMCO complaints database. His role involves supervising data processing, analysis, and generation of reports on complaints data. These reports serve as crucial inputs for the comprehensive supervision of BSP Supervised Institutions (BSIs), contribute to the formulation of consumer protection policies, and address requests and inquiries from various units within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

In the past, Alvin served in the Data Collection and Quality Staff (DCQS) within the Anti Money Laundering Council Secretariat (AMLCS). His responsibilities included conducting data quality audits on transaction reports submitted by Covered Persons under the amended Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA). Additionally, his team played a key role in developing the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Registration and Reporting Guidelines (ARRG), offering a comprehensive guide on reportorial requirements for Covered Persons under the amended AMLA.

Christopher Guess is a leader in data collection and analysis for the last 20 years working on financial supervision, investigative journalism, technical security and policy. He has previously worked with such organizations as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Duke University, the University of Missouri, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, the Bank for International Settlements and others.