Previous Speakers
This workshop is proud to bring together exceptional experts and scholars from around the world in one renowned venue.
Esteemed speakers from the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the IMF, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Italy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Board have joined the workshop in previous years.


Garrick Hileman
Section Chief Editor at Frontiers - Prev Researcher and Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics

Gilbert Verdian
Managing Director at Quant Network

Helmut Wacket
Head of Division at ECB

Patrick Osborne
Senior Associate Consultant at University College London

Tarik Roukny
Associate Professor of Finance at KU Leuven

Yakko Majuri
Advisor at BlockchainBH

Kary Bheemaiah
Vice President at Capgemini Invent

Kirill Shakhnov
Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey

Mark Esposito
Clinical Professor at Arizona State University

Peter Zimmerman
Research Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Raphael Auer
Head of the Eurosystem Centre at Bank for International Settlements

Christina Frankopan
Senior Consultant at Lazard Financial Advisory

Fabbio Braggion
Professor of Finance and Financial History at Tilburg University

Ke Tang
Professor and Director of the Institute of Economics at Tsinghua University

Kevin Werbach
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

Michael Kumhof
Senior Research Advisor at The Bank of England

Sonja Davidovic
Economist, Digital Currency Expert at IMF

Janus Zhang
Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

Paolo Sironi
FinTech Thought Leader and Author at IBM

Thomas Hardjono
