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Lesly Goh

Senior Technology Advisor for the World Bank

Lesly Goh (LinkedIn Profile), transitioned to World Bank Senior Technology Advisor after serving as the  Chief Technology Officer role. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) Judge  Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public  Policy. Lesly is appointed as Professor of Practice by ZheJiang International Business School (ZIBS). Her  expertise is in leveraging emerging technology to deliver agile solutions for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the intersection of technology and policy frameworks. For almost 30 years, her experience on  FinTech, AgTech, RegTech, GovTech spans across both the private and public sectors. She focused extensively  on the practical application and scaling tech innovation with Blockchain, AI, IoT, 5G and Edge Computing.  Examples of Disruptive Technology to address Development challenges: 

  • Implementation of Bond issuance on Blockchain, which raised 110M AUD on Aug 23, 2018 
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Famine announced at United Nation General Assembly on Sept 23, 2018 
  • She was featured in 2019: Women Leaders in Government and Council for Board Diversity 
  • Her personal mission is to empower Women and Girls to achieve the highest potential with Technology as the  Equalizer. Here is her TEDxTalk and her story 

She served as the Senior Technology Advisor for the following Development initiatives: 

  • Indonesia Ministry of Agriculture – Digital Transformation for Food Security 
  • Indonesia Ministry of Finance – Digital Transformation of Public Finance Management  
  • Vietnam eGov Digital Transformation for Office of Government – measures to strengthen government effectiveness, enable digital  economy and leverage disruptive technologies 
  • IFC SME Finance Forum Senior Technology Advisor
  • IFC Telcom Media Technology Upstream to provide strategy guidance for investment ideas for Smart Cities • Technology Advisory on Data Governance for MENA Chief Economist Flagship Report in 2020 
  • AI for Governance and Procurement in multiple engagements for MENA Region 
  • Support MENA Moonshot goal on Digital Economy to create jobs for Youth and address gender gap 
  • Bali FinTech Agenda Chapeau Paper launched at the Annual Meeting in October 2018 
  • Judging Panel for G20 TechSprint on RegTech and SupTech in 2020 (BIS Press Release) 
  • Paulson Institute Green Finance
  • The Brookings Institute Book Project – “Breakthrough” plan for United Nation General Assembly 2021: Digital Transformation of  Agriculture to increase productivity for small holder farmers  
  • WEF Global Future Councils on Data Policy – Platform for shaping the Future of Technology Governance on data policy 

Lesly’s experience in the private sector covers a broad spectrum ranging from Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Asset  Management, Development Banks and Financial Data Providers. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of AFTECH (self-regulatory  organization) for Indonesia Financial Authority (OJK). 

She is on the Advisory Board for Harvard College Project for Asa and International Relations (HPAIR) with the mission to connect the top leaders of  today and tomorrow in a dynamic forum of exchange. Lesly was a mentor/advisor for several FinTech startups in Asia and a Fellow at Singapore  University of Social Sciences. Lesly has been an advocate for Women in Technologies and academia for students in STEM such as DigiGirlz from  her background in Computer Engineering and Mathematics. She was also a key contributor for Cloud Platform in the working group with IFC and  Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN initiative). Lesly is a strong supporter of Singapore  Smart Nation and serves as Board Member of Singapore GovTech.  

Lesly is a certified Data Architect and worked on many high-profile Data and AI initiatives in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services,  Healthcare/Life Sciences and Smart Cities. For almost 30 years, she specialized in Advanced Analytics such as BI/Analytics, Data Mining, Data  Visualization, Machine Learning, Pattern Matching, Forecasting model, and Semantic Analysis. She brings a balance of technology specialty and  business strategy from the Management Consulting background at Deloitte.