CAMBRIDGE MBA - Key Persons
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- Professor of Corporate Governance
Alexander is the Regulatory Research Lead for MENA-MED. Alexander received his PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics, and taught at the European University Cyprus, where he was previously head of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics; there he gained experience in implementing EU projects in relation to Tertiary and Vocational education and combating fraud. He is an economist with a background on the economic history of the Mediterranean and with publications on the economics of peace, centred on the Cyprus settlement. Alexander also has a decade of supporting and shaping in government policy. He severed in the National Economic Council of the President of Cyprus during 2013-2017. Before joining the CCAF he worked at the British High Commission, Nicosia, as an Economist, working on combating money laundering, and leading prosperity project and delivery at post as well as being a member of the Science and Innovation Network of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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- Director of Open Programmes
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- Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Anton leads on the CCAF's digital tools development, in particular, the Global Alternative Finance Benchmark Dashboard. Anton's research interests include the cryptoassets market and its behavioural aspects. Anton is the co-author of the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, the real-time estimate of the total electricity load and consumption of the Bitcoin network. Before joining the CCAF, Anton was doing PhD research on the cryptocurrency market agents' behaviour modelling, teaching Data Science at the Karazin Kharkiv National University and the University of Barcelona. He also worked at, and then managed, an analytics company where he mastered the software development cycle and came across Bitcoin while working on its price modelling.
Prior to his work with cryptoassets, Anton specialised in renewable energy and worked as a Research Fellow at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology where he conducted nuclear safety tests. Anton holds an MSc in Applied Physics and an MSc in Applied Economics from the Karazin Kharkiv National University.
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Apolline leads the Centre's cryptoasset research programme. She has co-authored two influential benchmarking reports on the state of global cryptoasset and blockchain industries, as well as a study on the cryptoasset regulatory landscape. Her research interests primarily lie in the study of the cryptocurrency mining industry. She holds a bachelor's degree in International History from the University of Paris Denis Diderot and graduated from Peking University and the London School of Economics with a dual master's degree in International Affairs.
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- Director of Executive Education
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- Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
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- Co - Founder and Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance ( CCAF ) at Cambridge Judge Business School, Has Been Appointed Read
- Co - Founder and Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Bryan is interested in the development of technology-enabled financial innovation and its interplay with regulatory, supervisory and policy innovation nationally, regionally and globally. Since 2013, Bryan has led and co-authored more than 40 some of the most influential industry and regulatory reports on FinTech business models, digital finance market trends, global policy landscape and regulatory innovation initiatives. He has advised and collaborated with numerous institutions and organisations including the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the European Commission, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Bank of International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Economic Forum and the Gates Foundation. Bryan is currently a member of Bank of England's CBDC Engagement Forum, OECD's Steering Group on SME and Entrepreneurship Finance, Dubai International Financial Centre's Innovation Panel and an ASCR of King's College Cambridge. He was trained in Economic Geography, Development and Public Policy at Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
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- SSA Market Researcher, Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Charles is a market research professional with extensive experience in project management, data processing and analysis, consumer insights formulation and report preparation and presentation for both quantitative and qualitative studies.
Until recently, he was engaged as the Head of Market Research and Operations, Africa at Foresight Survey and Digital Solutions Limited. He has also worked as a Research Manager at InterMedia Survey Institute, a global research consultancy that offers a full range of research and analysis, consulting, and fieldwork management and training services to strengthen development initiatives, measure social investments and enhance consumer engagement largely in financial inclusion and digital inclusion. At the Institute he was responsible for the annual Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) research programs on behalf of the Financial Services for the Poor (FSP) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The programme was executed in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia
He has also been engaged as a Market Research Executive at Kenya Airways (KQ) Limited and as a Research Executive at Millward Brown East Africa Limited. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) from the University of Nairobi and is pursuing a Master of Science (Social Statistics) from the same university.
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- Director of Operations
- Finance
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- Business Development Director, Open Programmes
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Davinia Cogan works at Energy 4 Impact, a UNDP and World Bank founded non-profit focused on finding business solutions to energy poverty. Davinia joined Energy 4 Impact in 2013 to help launch their business advisory team in East Africa, and managed the rollout of a USAID funded programme bringing pay-as-you-go solar home systems to Rwanda. She is the Programme Manager of Crowd Power, a UK government funded programme exploring the role of crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending in financing off-grid energy startups in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Prior to joining Energy 4 Impact, Davinia completed a microfinance fellowship in Tajikistan and worked as a consultant to non-profits and social enterprises including the Social Stock Exchange in London. She also held roles in investment management at ING Australia. She has a MA in International Studies from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Business (Finance, International Business) from the University of Technology Sydney.
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- Lead in Capacity Building and Education, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Dee has expertise in the strategic leadership, management, delivery and impact evaluation of higher education degrees, executive education programmes and research projects in the UK, Asia and Africa. She also has experience in delivering lectures, seminars, workshops, webinars, online programmes and conducting academic research as a senior academic, L&D specialist, social entrepreneur and former lawyer. Dee holds an LLM in International Law from SOAS, University of London which included studying Law of International Finance and International Economic Law at King's College and London School of Economics respectively as an inter-collegiate student of the University of London.
Dee's PhD research focused on SME entrepreneurship and organisational behaviour using as a case study, a multinational social impact FinTech. Dee is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.
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- Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management
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- Assistant Professor at the Ivey Business School
- Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Diane-Laure has been an Assistant Professor at the Ivey Business School (Western University, Canada) since 2015. Her research investigates how the fashioning of new devices and/or collective actions can help transform markets towards sustainability. An ethnographer by training, she enjoys field research and sharing her experience with students and practitioners. Over the past decade, she has studied the emergence of responsible investing, conservation finance, impact assessment, integrated reporting, and alternative currencies. With a renowned team of social scientists of finance she co-authored Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped (OUP). Diane-Laure's work in this area has won several academic and professional prizes. The French Ministry for Finance and Economy appointed her to the Scientific Committee of the French SRI label, she is a board member of the French Social Investment Forum, an advisory member of the Principles for Responsible Investing and a Jury member of the FIR-PRI Finance and Sustainability Awards. Before working at Ivey, Diane-Laure was Assistant Professor at HEC Paris. Prior to academic life, she worked for several years as an analyst in an asset management company and as a social economy manager in a mutual insurance company. She graduated with a PhD in management, an MBA and an MPhil in organisational theory, with highest honor.
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- Lecturer of the Discipline
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Dr Eva Huang is a Lecturer of the Discipline of Business Law at the University of Sydney Business School, and the founder and editor of the Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy. She has close collaborative relationships with the Department of Public Finance and the Law School of Xiamen University. This collaboration resulted in the first English language comprehensive work on Chinese taxation - Taxation in China (Thomson Reuters, 2017 forthcoming), her co-author is Professor Bin Yang. Her research interests include regulating alternative finance and internet finance, financial innovation - especially fintech and regtech, and comparative fiscal policy and tax law. She worked for the Australian Treasury as a policy analyst, focusing on the tax policy of non-profit organisations. Eva has extensive experience as a translator and interpreter, specialising in financial, technical and legal material. She has consulted tax and business advisors in regards to cross-border transactions involving China. Eva is also a freelance art dealer and curator, specialising in contemporary Chinese sculpture, oil, and watercolours using traditional medium and technique. Eva has a PhD, a Juris Doctor, a Masters of Taxation, and double degrees in Arts (Social Policy and German), and Commerce (Accounting and Economics) with First Class Honours (Commercial Law) from the University of Sydney.
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- Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Dr Gina Pieters is currently a Lecturer at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago. Her research examines the use of cryptocurrencies and similar DLT-enabled projects. She is particularly interested in their implications for international markets. In addition to PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, she holds a BSc in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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- Joint Principal Investigator
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute
Dr Jason Grant Allen is a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. His research explores how new technology enables behaviour that not only requires a legal response, but also catalyses changes in the legal system itself and provides insights into the nature of law as a technologically-mediated social practice. Jason's work embraces both constitutional theory and financial law, positioning him well to apprehend the micro/transactional and macro/systemic aspects of alternative finance.
Jason is Joint principal investigator (with Professor Gerhard Dannemann) on a DFG-funded project on the work of émigré jurist F.A. Mann, co-ordinating the efforts of an international group of scholars of monetary law to understand the way that legal and economic theories of money evolved over the 20th century, and how current technological changes impact the conventional wisdom. Jason is a co-investigator (with principal investigator Professor Rosa Maria Lastra) on the project "Legal and Economic Conceptions of Money" under the Finance Hub of the ESRC-funded Rebuilding Macroeconomics Project at NIESR. With an interdisciplinary team, Jason is exploring how legal theory can inspire macroeconomic theory that is better grounded and more policy-relevant.
Jason received a BA & LLB (1st) from the University of Tasmania (2007), LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Augsburg as a DAAD scholar (2010), and PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge as a Poynton Scholar (2017). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Humboldt University Centre for British Studies (2017-2019). Jason is a dual-qualified lawyer (NY and Australia, currently non-practising) and served as Judicial Assistant to the Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales (2016-2017). His interest in payments technology and alternative finance began in 2013 with an off-grid solar start-up combining smart metering, peer-to-beer energy transmission, and a blockchain-based payments system. Jason is currently working on a start-up project building a financial services platform for the West African market. Jason is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania.
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- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre Manager
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre
Before joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Aghasi held a research fellow position at University of Sussex, where he joined Intrapreneurship Hub, a collaborative research initiative between the School of Business, Management and Economics at the University of Sussex, Renmin University of China, and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy. Hub provides a platform to share the latest research findings and offers industry partners customised research projects, confidential analyses and metrics to assess corporate entrepreneurial performance. In his position, he developed a survey aiming at understanding how established companies adopt and apply different mechanisms such as startup programmes (accelerators and incubators), corporate venturing, and acquisition to support innovation, and growth, and instigate self-renewal.
Dr Aghasi obtained his PhD from a double degree programme funded under the Erasmus Mundus programme by the European Commission hosted at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2016. In his thesis, he investigated the determinants behind the turnover of the acquired top managers in acquisition of small high-tech firms which are mainly entrepreneurial ventures. In addition, he worked at the European Commission and national funded projects related to understanding the challenges of growth for European entrepreneurial ventures as the driver of innovation in various sectors including high-tech, knowledge intensive, and cultural creative industries.
Keivan is a research associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre. He received his PhDs from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). His areas of research revolve around unravelling and alleviating the challenges of growth and transformation of startups into viable businesses as well as measuring the impact of structured support programmes (such as accelerators and incubators) in the startup ecosystem. Keivan has participated and been consulted in several European Commission and national funded projects related to understanding the challenges of growth for SMEs as the driver of innovation in various sectors including high-tech, knowledge intensive, and cultural creative industries.
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre
Dr Konstantinos Ladas is a Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School. He served as project manager on the relationship of technology and innovation for the School's Executive Education division. Previously he was head of network strategy - responsible for the fixed network - at OTE the incumbent telecom operator in Greece. He has more than 20 years' experience in a broad range of high-level management positions in telecommunications and has served as adviser to the CEO responsible for technology selection and collective labour agreements negotiations.
Dr Ladas holds an MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. He has authored several papers in electromagnetics, mathematics and business journals.
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- Partner, McKinsey and Company
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- Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Dr Mia Gray is a Senior University Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. She is an economic geographer focusing on how alternative finance, such as crowdfunding, affects regional economies, labour markets, and the distribution of opportunity. Mia is an Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. She was also the Acting Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.
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- Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the Eller College of Management
Dr Mingfeng Lin is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. His primary research interest is IT-enabled new markets and novel business models, particularly online crowdfunding and other forms of alternative finance. He has published in journals including Management Science and Information Systems Research.
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- Director of Digital Innovation / Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital
Dr Rasheed Saleuddin is a post-doc at the Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Endowment Asset Management. His policy-focused works include a Palgrave Macmillan book on financial regulation, Regulating Securitized Products: A Post Crisis Guide, while his first academic book, The Government of Markets, on the role of the US government in the making of modern capital markets, will be published by Palgrave in 2019. Rasheed's academic and professional interests currently lie in examining the theories, past experiences and current policy dilemmas involved with the intersection of state regulation and policy responses, as well as in alternative finance. Before completing his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge as a fully-funded CERF Scholar, he was a hedge fund manager at the activist Canadian investment firm, West Face Capital. Before 2008 he specialised in regulatory solutions for banks all over the world. He also holds a masters degree in regulation, with distinction, from the LSE, and is eligible to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is currently an early stage investor in and advisor to fintech companies.
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- Founder and Managing Director of Clinical Services International ( CSI )
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- University Senior Lecturer in Marketing
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- Research Associate at the CCAF
- Research Associate, Global Benchmarking, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Felipe is a Research Associate at the CCAF, working within the Global Benchmark team. He co-led the work on ‘SME Access to Finance in LATAM' and has participated in the development of the CCAF Alternative Finance Atlas. He pursued his bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering in Brazil and a master's in Management at the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra (FEUC) in Portugal with a focus on sharing economy.
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- Programme Manager, EnterpriseTECH
Dr Ghina Halabi is an astrophysicist, social entrepreneur and public speaker. For more than a decade, her astrophysics research probed one of the most inaccessible regions in the universe, the internal structure and workings of stars. From studying the universe in its constant flux and metamorphosis, she migrated to another that is equally fluid and kinetic: entrepreneurship.
Her work now lies at the intersection of space science, entrepreneurship and education. She joined the Education Team at the Entrepreneurship Centre to help create impactful opportunities for academics to thrive beyond the lab. She also designed and led EnterpriseWOMEN, an entrepreneurship development programme for women founders and CEOs.
Ghina is the first person to receive a PhD in astrophysics from a Lebanese institution, the American University of Beirut. This drives her commitment towards promoting STEM so in 2018 she founded She Speaks Science, a multi-lingual enterprise that helps young people build a positive STEM identity and promotes women scientists with storytelling. She Speaks Science has received funding from the International Astronomical Union and University of Cambridge.
Ghina mentors with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and is a member of its Space for Women project. She is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and sits on the advisory board of Public Engagement at Cambridge University and Arab Science Week. Previously, she was a research scientist at the Institute of Astronomy and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Before moving to Cambridge, she worked as a lecturer at the American University of Beirut.
She is a speaker at international conferences and global forums including TEDx and the United Nations, and profiled as subject matter expert in the media including BBC Future, newspapers and podcasts.
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- Research Associate, Capacity Building & Education, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Researcher at the CCAF
Grigory is a researcher at the CCAF and a tutor in its FinTech and Regulatory Innovation programme. Before joining the CCAF he worked as the lead compliance consultant to GetChip and completed the Barclays & Techstars accelerator programme with Homeppl. He has previously worked and interned in the legal and research sectors in China and Central Asia and received an honours degree in law from the University of Edinburgh, specialising in international law.
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- Senior Open Programmes Manager
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- Associate Professor in Community Enterprise
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- Associate Director, Data & Analytics, Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Development Economist
Herman is a development economist and behavioural scientist who has committed his career to the development of financial sectors that better serve society. Herman is responsible for supporting the delivery of all research-oriented programmes of the CCAF. Prior to his most recent contribution to Sinequanon, a Swiss PeopleTech start-up as the Sandbox Lead, Herman had a 10-year tenure at the Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri) as a Technical Director, responsible for overseeing research portfolios, partnerships, and the design of new programmes. Herman's research interests include the application of behavioural science, data science and technology within the financial sector and how these emerging solutions can extend the reach of financial services whilst better meeting financial needs. As part of his tenure at Cenfri, Herman was also the Founder & Lead of the insightst2impact facility (i2i), a five-year programme supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MasterCard Foundation to advance financial inclusion measurement frameworks, customer-centric research as well as the innovative use and collection of data.
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- Associate Director of Business & Operations
Hunter's research interests are in digital payments, financial inclusion, open banking and more broadly frontier market investing. Prior to joining the Centre, Hunter worked in the finance industry, beginning his career in corporate banking in the United States, later transitioning to Rwanda to facilitate a turnaround plan and digital transformation strategy at a microfinance bank as Head of Credit. This included the implementation of a USSD-enabled digital payments platform enabling the disbursement and collection of credit via an agent network to 200,000+ clients across the country. Hunter holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge with a Concentration in Finance.
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- Business Development Director, Open Programmes
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- Associate Professor in Accounting
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- Associate Professor in Operations & Technology Management
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Jill contributes to the Centre's strategy, both internal and external. She brings extensive international experience focused on frontier and emerging markets and the challenges faced in those environments in informality and inclusion. Her background covers many areas of digital finance, from the business model to consumer preferences to the enabling environment and regulatory challenges. Jill is regularly asked to consult for clients, including UN agencies, to conduct research and to offer insights on digital finance. Jill holds a degree from Cornell University and numerous professional certificates from the Digital Frontiers institute, specialising in regulation in digital finance and instant and inclusive payment systems.
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- Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Senior Economist in the Innovation and the Digital Economy Unit of the Bank for International Settlements
Jon Frost is a Senior Economist in the Innovation and the Digital Economy unit of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In this role, he conducts policy-oriented research on FinTech and digital innovation. He has written on FinTech credit, BigTech in finance, and technology and inequality. Previously, Jon worked at the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Dutch central bank (DNB), VU University in Amsterdam, and in the private sector in Germany. Jon is a US citizen. He holds an MA degree in economics from the University of Munich, and a PhD in economics from the University of Groningen. He is an alumnus of the policy fellowship at the Centre for Science and Policy of the University of Cambridge.
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- New Wave Partner
- Entrepreneur, Operator Investor, Advisor / Founder & Former CEO of HealthUnlocked
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- Associate Professor in Enterprise / Innovation
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Karen is an Associate Professor in Enterprise/Innovation (FinTech), named as ‘Standout #35 Women in FinTech Powerlist by Innovate Finance'. She co-leads an EPSRC Research Project and Finclusion project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Turing Institute with Prof van Moorsel optimising trustworthy technology, digital ethics, and verifiable credentials to facilitate fairness for all. Karen is a member of the Prime Minister's Challenge Group for Dementia as digital inclusion expert, ForHumanity and the IEEE Ethical AI Committee developing global standards for artificial intelligence adoption. She is also a founding member of the Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) group, seeking to facilitate an equitable digital society.
As Director, Karl aims to advance research on digital innovation as well promote the translational impact of such research through knowledge hubs and education outreach programmes. His research interests include digital innovation particularly in regard to health care and fintech contexts, broader themes of innovation such as ecosystem development and leadership, and information systems. Karl has previous experience in industry and academic contexts, holding consulting and management positions in the Cambridge cluster and research positions at the University of Cambridge, Warwick Business School and Leeds Business School.
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- Administrator, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Kate is Administrator for the CCAF team. She has wide experience of administrative practice across the University of Cambridge. She has worked for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, as senior secretary supporting a team of academics and researchers. Her College work includes administrative roles in the Mistress' office at Girton College, and the Development Offices of Girton and Murray Edwards College.
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- Client Relationship Manager
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- Fellow of the CCAF
- Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Keith Bear is currently a Fellow of the CCAF. Keith was responsible globally for the strategy and development of IBM's business in financial markets, working extensively with global clients on their major transformation programmes. He has worked extensively with financial markets infrastructure firms, trade finance organisations and banks such on deployment of blockchain technologies. Keith is also a Board Advisor to three blockchain fintechs, and a lead mentor for the Barclay's Techstars Fintech accelerator.
Keith holds a First Class Degree in Physics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, an MSc (Distinction) in Particle Physics from University of London, and completed an IBM Master in Business Management programme at London School of Economics. He is a member of IBM's Industry Academy and a Board Director for the Enterprise Data Management Council.
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Kieran has worked for over a decade in tech-enabled financial innovation. He has helped 50 companies raise over $34 million via equity crowdfunding between 2013 and 2015. In 2016-2019, inspired by regulatory and policy research in East Africa, he created and led the initial development of RegSimple - a data product that uses machine learning and NLP to automatically analyse and track regulation globally. In 2018-2020, he led the creation and development of the FinTech & Regulatory Innovation programme for financial regulators with participants from 120+ countries working in 200+ central banks and securities regulators globally. He is now working at Cambridge Spark, developing AI and Data Science products. He previously established a microfinance social enterprise in Vietnam. He holds an MSc from Imperial College London and a bachelors from the LSE.
Dr Konstantinos Ladas is a Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School. He served as project manager on the relationship of technology and innovation for the School's Executive Education division. Previously he was head of network strategy - responsible for the fixed network - at OTE the incumbent telecom operator in Greece. He has more than 20 years' experience in a broad range of high-level management positions in telecommunications and has served as adviser to the CEO responsible for technology selection and collective labour agreements negotiations.
Dr Ladas holds an MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. He has authored several papers in electromagnetics, mathematics and business journals.
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- APAC Market Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
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- Client Relationship Manager
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- Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Senior Technology Advisor, Former World Bank Director and Chief Technology Officer
Lesly Goh is World Bank Senior Technology Advisor, former World Bank Director and Chief Technology Officer. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly is a Professor of Practice at ZheJiang International Business School (ZIBS). She frequently gives lectures on data governance, FinTech and digital government transformation. Her expertise is in leveraging cloud technology to deliver agile solutions at scale for sustainable development goals (SDG) at the intersection of technology and policy frameworks. For almost 30 years, her experience on fintech, regtech, govtech spans across both the private and public sectors. Lesly's experience covers a broad spectrum ranging from capital markets, retail banking, commercial banking, asset management, development banks and financial data providers. She has worked extensively on the practical application of dDisruptive technology such as Blockchain, AI and IoT.
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- Graphic Designer, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Louise is our in-house Graphic Designer, producing all of the Centre's reports, programmes and infographics.
She graduated from the Norwich School of Art & Design several years ago and has been actively designing ever since, she joined the Centre a year ago and has been an asset ever since.
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Marcelo is a lawyer at the Central Bank of Brazil with more than 20 years of academic and professional experience. He is also a CoinDesk columnist, writing about the future of money and payments. Marcelo is the author of a book on administrative sanctions, published in Portugal, and of many articles, essays, and reports, in Portuguese and English, about central banking, financial regulation, fintech, and digital currencies. Marcelo received his LLB from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a master's degree in law from Coimbra University. He also holds an LLM and an SJD from Duke University.
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- Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation & Growth
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- Professor in Digital Economy, University of Exeter Business School
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- Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Marwa currently holds the post of Executive Director of the Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) programme with overall responsibility for the day to day running of the programme, curriculum review and enhancement, corporate development, careers coaching and marketing. She developed the credit component of the programme and teaches the core fundamentals of credit and advanced credit courses. Marwa is also a regular guest speaker on credit risk management and stress testing and authors case studies on a range of finance related topics. Marwa is an alumna of the Cambridge MFin and prior to re-joining CJBS in her current capacity, held the role of Portfolio Banker managing a $9 billion Western European power and utilities portfolio with Citigroup in London and had a Senior Credit Officer designation. Marwa has 14 years' banking experience and began her career with Citi in EMEA, where she held a number of roles in relationship management, investment banking, credit, country and market risk management between 1996 and 2002.
Between 2002-2006, she held a business origination role at the Bank of TokyoMitsubish UFJ covering the European oil and gas space in addition to co-leading a mid-tier client conversion initiative. Marwa joined Société Générale Bank as Vice President and Senior Credit Analyst in 2006, covering a portfolio of Western European construction, media, industrial and consumer goods clients and worked closely with coverage and product areas including derivatives, structured finance, securitisation and trade finance. Marwa also had responsibility for monitoring and managing names with evident migration in credit quality and was actively involved with a number of remedial management situations during her time with SocGen.
Marwa holds a Masters of Finance Degree from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, an MBA from Birmingham Business School and a BA in Business Administration and Economics from the American University in Cairo. Marwa undertook credit risk training with Citi in the late 1990s in addition to completing the six months Chase Manhattan credit course.
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Matt focuses on the intersection of technology, finance, and policy. He has worked on these issues from a variety of perspectives: as a consultant, regulator, and funder. Most recently, at the US Agency for International Development, Matt designed and launched the Regtech for Regulators Accelerator, a first-of-its kind programme focused on supporting government innovation using startup methodologies. He also oversaw the agency's efforts to advance inclusive fintech in India. Prior to this, Matt was a member of the consumer policy team at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation where he helped formulate the agency's policy on various emerging technologies and drove several efforts related to economic inclusion, student loans, and mortgage lending. He began working in the financial services space as a consultant at Deloitte where he helped develop the firm's market strategy for financial regulatory reform. Matt received a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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- Professor of Organisational Theory & Information Systems
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- Advisor
- Fellow in Professional Services Leadership & Strategy
- Professor of Information Systems
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- Academic Director
- Professor of IS and Innovation Studies
Michael is Professor of IS and Innovation Studies and Director of Research at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as Head of the Organisation Theory & Information Systems group, Director (Associate Dean) of Programmes, and Director of the MPhil in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation programme. He is also a Distinguished Scholar, OCIS Division, Academy of Management. Professor Barrett is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Information & Organization journal responsible for the RICK section. He has consulted with Oracle Canada where he won the Most Valuable Employee award. He continues to provide executive education for many organisations including Thomson Reuters, Statoil, Bank of China, China Mobile, BT, IBM, HP, PWC, Pfizer, Shell, and the World Health Organisation.
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- Corporate Finance
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Miguel Soriano is a corporate finance leader and Fintech specialist with more than 15 years of experience in investment banking, business development, strategy consulting and project management. Currently, he is a Digital Finance Specialist Consultant for IFC in their Latin America FIG Advisory practice. Prior to that, he was a Fintech Specialist Consultant for IFC in Singapore on the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN) project. In this role, Miguel was responsible for the development of the strategic framework for identifying, cataloguing and structuring the list of Fintech companies that will collaborate with banks in an industry sandbox, in order to drive financial inclusion in the ASEAN region.
While living in Singapore, Miguel completed a PhD in Business at Singapore Management University (SMU). His doctoral research, which was funded by a research grant from MasterCard on financial inclusion and social entrepreneurship, was focused on the development of an empirical, data driven model that quantifies the key factors that drive financial inclusion and financial performance in Fintech startups. His doctoral research has immediate practical applications for VC firms and investors, which evaluate the financial performance of new technology ventures in financial inclusion, by providing a quantitative, data-driven methodology. He is viewed as an expert in Fintech and financial inclusion, and continues to work closely with Fintech startups, serving as a mentor, evaluating potential Fintech startup investment opportunities, and advising startups in financial inclusion that want to expand in emerging markets. Prior to moving to Singapore, Miguel worked in Wall Street for 12 years - first three years in Treasury at Merrill Lynch, and the remainder of the time in investment banking at Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, giving him a in-depth perspective of both the back office and front office operations of global banks. He has a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from New York University (NYU) and an MBA in Finance and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business.
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- CEO, Crescent Enterprises
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- Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Chairman of the Advisory Board / Partner & Co - Founder, MW & L Capital Partners / Non - Executive Director, GasLog
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- Non - Executive Chairman, Odgers Berndtson
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- Chairman, the Monument Trust
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- Co - Founder & Chairman, Tailwind Energy
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- Chairman, the Works / Senior Independent Director, SSP Group / Non - Executive Director, at B & M Value Retail
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- CEO & Founder, Quince Consultancy
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- Managing Partner, Textyle Group / Founder and Owner, Culthread London
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- Independent Director of China Education Resources / Executive Director, China 's Stock Exchange Executive Council ( SEEC ) Managing Director, SEEC Holdings
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- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Nafis is currently working as a Professor and Head, School of Business, at Monash University Malaysia. He previously served as an Associate Professor of Finance at the Henley Business School (Malaysia campus) and at Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC).
Prior to this, he was attached with Monash University where he worked as a lecturer in finance. His scholarly articles have been published in leading journals including The World Economy, Emerging Markets Review, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Asset Management, Journal of Banking Regulation, Review of Islamic Economics and Journal of Financial Services Marketing among others. He has also co-authored five books on Islamic Finance - among them is Encyclopaedia of Islamic Finance which is the first of its kind and has sold over 1000 copies worldwide.
As a frequent traveller, he has given lectures on finance and Islamic finance across the world, including: Harvard Islamic Finance forum at Harvard Law School; a Gulf Research Meeting at Cambridge University, UK; Durham University Summer School; Seoul International Finance Conference (SIFIC); World Islamic Economic Forum (WIFE); OIC Asia Trade and Economic Forum, Central bank of Turkey among others. Dr Alam has served as a visiting Associate Professor at various universities in the UK and Indonesia. He was featured as a Professor of the Month by Financial Times (FT) in 2014 and received an award for Upcoming Personality in Islamic Finance in 2016 presented by GIFA and hosted by the Indonesian government.
He is an avid writer and contribute regularly to the mainstream newspaper, economic forum and professional outlets like WEF, Huffington Post,The Edge, The Conversation among others. He has been interviewed by Sputnik, UK; CBS, USA, ABC Australia. Recently, He has been appointed as a Workshop Director for Fintech and Islamic Finance Workshop by the Gulf Research Council of University of Cambridge. He is one of the top influencer in the area of Fintech, Banking regulation, financial Inclusion and Islamic finance. He mentors Fintech platforms in the SEA region. He can be followed on Twitter
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- Communications Manager, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Neil's background is in communications, marketing, public relations, media relations, analyst relations and brand management. He has worked agency side and in-house in the mobile communications, IT, enterprise communications, leisure and defence communications sectors. He is responsible for promoting the Centre's research agenda, managing its social media profile, developing digital content and maintaining relationships with key media.
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- APAC Regional Lead, Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Regional Lead
Nicholas Drury is Regional Lead for CCAF in Asia Pacific and a tutor on the Cambridge FinTech and Regulatory Innovation programme. Nick has over 20 years' practitioner experience with blue chip names in international and digital financial services over three continents. Previously, he published more than 30 studies on technology-enabled financial innovation as a Global Research Lead for IBM. Nick actively collaborates with a diverse range of partners from private and public sectors, including fintechs, central banks, governments, regulators, leading global banking groups, and major digital financial services players in Asia Pacific. He has consulted extensively with global and regional clients undergoing deep transformation journeys with emerging technologies. Nick holds an MBA in International Business and conducted research at INSEAD. He is also a Fellow of Singapore University of Social Sciences.
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- Programme Administrator, EnterpriseTECH
Olivia started her administrative career in 2014 working as a hotel receptionist. After a two-year trip to Australia and returning to her hometown of Cambridge, she moved into office-based roles in the construction industry before joining Cambridge Judge Business School's Entrepreneurship Centre in the Education Team back in January 2020. Outside of work she has enrolled in an Executive Personal Assistant online course and is interested in sewing and rag rugging.
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- Banking and Finance Executive
- SSA Regional Lead, Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Patrick Saidu Conteh is a banking and finance executive with over 20 years experience covering both the private and public sectors. He is the recent past Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone; where amongst other FinTech initiatives, he pioneered Sierra Leone's first sandbox, as part of an overarching financial inclusion strategy. He is also credited for championing regulatory reforms covering both the Central Bank itself and the banking industry. Patrick is a strong advocate of FinTech and other disruptive solutions as platforms for leapfrogging the low financial inclusion rate in the West Africa region. In 2016-17, Patrick was Fiscal Affairs Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Sierra Leone; and between 2016-18, he doubled as Alternate Executive Director at the African Development Bank.
Patrick's earlier career was in commercial banking, working for the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Limited; where he held various senior management roles including that of the Director of Risk Management and, later, Deputy Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. He has intricate knowledge of the wider financial systems and holds a PhD, MBA, and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom.
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- Professor of Innovation & Organisation
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- Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Clinical Engineering, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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- Research Associate & Regulatory Innovation Lead, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Philip leads on the international aspects of CCAF's financial innovation and financial inclusion initiatives. Philip was previously a regulator specialising in FinTech, competition policy and financial inclusion, focusing on enabling supportive regulatory environments for development. In his capacity as the International Lead at the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Innovate initiative, he closely supported dozens of financial services regulators and governments in their efforts to promote innovation in financial services, including those in developing markets. A leading authority on regulatory sandboxes, Philip is regularly consulted by those seeking to promote innovation in regulation. During his time at CGAP Philip successfully advocated for the implementation of pro-innovation and pro-competition regulatory policies with regulators and competition authorities to promote financial inclusion. Philip has also served at the UK's competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where his work focused on improving competition in banking. Philip holds an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.
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- Associate Professor in Corporate Governance
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- Co - Founder and Academic Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Professor
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- Business Leader
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Ravi Vig is a business leader with general management, programme management, strategic and operations management, and management consulting experience across private, public and non-profit sectors. He has provided transformational and change leadership to the financial services industry including banking, insurance, corporate treasury and cash management, energy trading and risk management, financial supply chain management and financial inclusion domains.
Ravi has an extensive experience in setting up, turning around and leading organisations, with strategic planning, alignment of goals and objectives between the organisation and the employees, designing the supporting operating model, and its realisation through implementation and management of operations management functions. He is passionate about building organizations with sustainable value proposition, supported and reinforced through focus on the stakeholder management, corporate culture, human capital and social capital for greater efficiencies, creativity and engagement.
Ravi received his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Certification in Strategic Non-Profit Management from the Harvard Business School, and bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Santo Tomas.
Rebecca joined the Entrepreneurship Centre in 2018 intending to build educational programmes on entrepreneurship that serve the research community. The first was EnterpriseTECH in 2018, which has had close to 450 students attend. Then came EnterpriseTECH STAR in 2019 to help researchers begin the journey towards forming their own new ventures.
For close to 20 years, Rebecca's home was the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She is an organic chemist by training having done her PhD with Professor Chris Abell FRS. Rebecca then worked with Professor Steven Ley CBE FRS (also) in the Department of Chemistry. She was also the Associate Director of the Cambridge-CRUK PhD Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry led by Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian FRS for ten years. Her research and publications cover many areas of medicinal chemistry, particularly around cancer research.
Rebecca values collaborative efforts and is passionate about cultivating meaningful research impact and creating opportunities for researchers to thrive beyond academia.
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- Co - Founder & Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Bob is an economic sociologist interested in understanding how and why channels and instruments of finance emerge outside the traditional financial system and how this impacts regulators, incumbent financial institutions and consumers. In addition to his role in the School, Bob is a member of the Steering Committee for the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3), an interdisciplinary research centre at Cambridge bringing together expertise from across academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding, and use of big data.
Prior to pursuing his academic career in 2010, Bob had an international career as a professional investor, most recently as a Managing Director in the investment group of one of the largest privately-owned companies in the United States where he was responsible for a portfolio of European corporate debt and equity investments. He has held several board directorships and advisory roles with academic, governmental and commercial organisations over the course of both his academic and non-academic career.
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- Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Rolf founded pH Group, now an Experian company, in 1987; a specialised data-analytics consultancy, it focused entirely on the business population of the UK, France, and several other countries, pioneering the extensive use of databases. The pH data, tools and models are still used by the top UK commercial banks (and several in France), most key utilities, telco providers and several insurers. Prior to this Rolf was a Strategy Consultant and Case Leader at the Bolton Consulting Group in Munich, London and Paris.
Since leaving pH Group in 2012, Rolf has been advising firms and institutions in a personal capacity on a number of projects involving SME financing and credit analysis. He is particularly interested in research that can provide the basis for effective, new funding mechanisms for deserving SMEs (especially in times of market failure), reflecting a data-led understanding of how this population segments, and what contribution each segment makes to the economy at large, as well as in risk-adjusted returns. A specific focus of interest is the cohort of "expanding" firms, which uniquely combine lower default rates with high needs, yet are typically underserved by the mainstream channels. Rolf has a BSc in Physics from the University of Texas (Austin) and an MBA in Finance from University of California, Berkeley.
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- Internship Programme Manager, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Sara joined the CCAF to coordinate the Catalyst Fund Inclusive FinTech Internship Programme, a collaborative project between the CCAF and the Catalyst Fund. Sara's work involves recruiting, onboarding, training and supporting interns on the CF programme. Sara's background is in HR and she is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Prior to joining the CCAF, Sara ran her own HR consultancy business working with SMEs for five years and also taught on an MBA programme for the Open University Business School. Sara studied history at York University and this continues to be a great interest. Sara previously lived in the US and was a walking tour guide in Boston.
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- SSA Regulatory Researcher, Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Sarah is a lawyer and researcher. Her work focuses on financial services law and regulation. She is interested in approaches to the design of robust financial regulatory regimes, with a focus on emerging markets.
At the CCAF, Sarah leads research on the regulation of alternative finance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with the objective of providing evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and regulators seeking to develop an appropriate and fit-for-purpose regulatory framework for FinTech in the region. The position is a seconded position with FSD Africa in Nairobi, a CCAF partner in SSA.
In the course of her professional career she has worked as a banker, lecturer and researcher, including working as a lawyer in regulation, policy advocacy and consultancy for Barclays Bank, the Busara Center for Behavioural Economics, Strathmore Law School, CGAP, ITU and GIZ.
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- Fellow of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
- Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Schan works at the nexus of law, finance and regulation. A lawyer by training, Schan practiced law for more than a decade with the international law firms O'Melveny & Myers and Allen & Overy. Schan currently serves an advisor to FSD Africa and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) where he advises on the design and implementation of regulatory frameworks to support innovation and financial inclusion in less developed economies.
Over the course of his career, Schan has been a Fellow of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, a Wharton Corporate Social Responsibility Fellow, an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, an American Inns of Court Temple Bar Scholar and an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Schan earned a BA in Political Economy from Williams College, a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where his doctoral research focused on macroprudential regulation.
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- Associate Professor in Marketing
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- Executive Vice - President, R & D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca
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- Client Relationship Manager
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- Market Researcher for MENA - MED at the CCAF
Stanley is a Market Researcher for MENA-MED at the CCAF. Prior to joining CCAF, he worked on various research projects at Busara Centre for Behavioral Economics and BFA Global. Previously, he worked for DataFirst Research Services housed at the University of Cape Town, Ericsson and Equity Bank Ltd in Kenya. He holds a Masters degree in Development Economics from the University of Cape Town, and a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Nairobi.
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- Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management
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- Assistant Professor in Information Systems
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- Corporate Business Development Director for Open Programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education
Steven Grundy is the Corporate Business Development Director for Open Programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education. Steven works with corporate clients from around the world and across industries and business sectors who are seeking challenging, academically rigorous, yet practical executive development programmes.
Before joining Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, Steven spent 12 years working for the British Council in Colombia and Mexico. During this time, he was responsible for managing corporate training contracts, opening a new branch of the British Council in Bogota, Colombia and leading the successful teaching business in Mexico.
Steven has recently completed an MBA with Warwick Business School and holds an MA in Digital Technologies, Communication and Education from the University of Manchester and a BSc in Environmental Science from Lancaster University.
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- Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation & Growth
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- Lead in Global Benchmarking, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Tania is a Lead in Global Benchmarking at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Tania's research interests include small business economics and SME utilisation of alternative funding models to access finance. She was the Programme Manager of the Alternative Funding Network at the London-based Knowledge Peers. Previous to her work in alternative finance, Tania specialised in Chinese outward direct investment and was a Fulbright Scholar. Tania studied economics and holds an MSc in China in Comparative Perspective from the London School of Economics.
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- Research Assistant, Digital Assets, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Thomas is a Research Assistant supporting the Centre's Digital Assets research programme. His research interests include, but are not limited to, Organisational Science within the Digital Asset space. Thomas holds a bachelor's degree in International Business Administration and Entrepreneurship from Leuphana University and graduated from Tilburg University with a master's degree in Data Science and Society.
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- Vice - Dean for Programmes & Research
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- Founder and Partner of Simplexxis
Werner Bijkerk is founder and partner of Simplexxis. He is a renowned global expert in financial markets regulation and supervision. He is a consultant to various regulatory agencies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has recently published the seminal book The Foundations of Financial Regulation, which is used by regulators and academics worldwide. He is affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and member of the advisory panel to the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts (IEAF) and the Foundation of Financial Research (FEF). Previously, Werner was research director at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), senior strategist and analyst at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), researcher at the Nyenrode University think tank NYFER and entrepreneur in Latin America. He holds master's degrees in economics and art history.
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- Client Relationship Manager
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- Centre Manager, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Yvona's role focuses on managing the day-to-day operation matters of the Centre. She brings a wealth of experience in project and process management as well as economic and sustainable development. Her professional career prior to joining the Centre included running her own business, managing projects in cyber security, sustainable leadership and business support. She holds a masters degree in Economics from the Technical University of Ostrava and a masters degree in Sustainable Development from the University of Exeter.
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- Research Associate in Regulatory Innovation and Financial Inclusion at CCAF
- Research Associate in Regulatory Innovation, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Zain is a Research Associate in regulatory innovation and financial inclusion at CCAF where his focus has been innovation offices, financial inclusion and fintech. He is currently on secondment from the UK Financial Conduct Authority where he worked across a number of functions. He served as engagement lead for Innovate, working closely with global financial regulators and the UK Government as well as on the Global Financial Innovation Network. Zain was also an Enforcement Associate, focusing on cases of financial crime including bribery, corruption and terrorist finance. Zain holds a bachelors degree in law.