I am a frontier digital economy and financial market leader, passionate about evidence-based policymaking, data that show insights and tell stories, and the use of technology and innovative processes to achieve social and economic equality. My specialization is the ideation of new processes and solutions to address complex problems, influencing the strategies of multiple stakeholders to enhance their synergies and impacts.
I have 15 years of high-impact engagement in over 60 countries in the fields of banking, payments, telecom, and technology, and extensive experience in public sector policy development, public-private partnerships, advocacy, empirical research, and academia. From central bank governors to the C-suite executives, I work with leaders who are committed to making our economies more sustainable and equitable, and our societies more inclusive. With them, and with teams of economists, researchers, product managers, designers, data scientists, coders, business strategists, and policy and regulatory experts from around the world, I craft and deploy smart, transformative solutions to accelerate change.
I have undertaken engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the New York State Department of Financial Services, Facebook, Mastercard, Visa, the World Bank, USAID, the Bank for International Settlements, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), fintech startups, and many central banks and finance ministries from over 120 countries. Former employers include the GSMA, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), and the consulting firm BFA Global. For two years I taught a course on "Digital Approaches to Development" at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
As an independent consultant, I am currently leading the digital transformation of the New York State Department of Financial Services, while I collaborate as a senior fellow with the University of Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance developing their new SupTech workstream. I also lead the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A) - which I founded in 2016. R2A is a multimillion, multiyear programme that partners with global standard-setting bodies, financial sector authorities, and vendors across the globe harnessing new technologies and data science to reengineer market supervision, regulation and policy analysis.
I hold a PhD in Law & Economics, and am fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
