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List of participants in the
OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB)
January 2020 - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has formed an expert group to
provide advice on its work on blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. The current list of
members of the Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board can be found below.
For more information about the OECD’s work on blockchain, please visit www.oecd.org/daf/blockchain/
Member Position Company/Organisation
Adam Lusin Director, International
Communications, Information and
Emerging Technologies
Department of State, United
States
Ahmed Tameen Software Engineer/Consult/Lead Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology,
Egypt
Akihiko Yoshida Deputy Commissioner, International
Affairs
Financial Services Agency,
Japan
Alex “Sandy” Pentland Professor and Entrepreneurship
Program Director, Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Alex Sims Associate Professor, Department of
Commercial Law
University of Auckland
Business School
Alfred Früh Managing Director, Center for
Information Technology, Society
and Law
University of Zurich
Andreas Hartl Head of Division, Strategy, Artificial
Intelligence, Data Economy,
Blockchain
Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Energy, Germany
Andrius Adamonis Blockchain Project Manager Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania
Anne Rothwell FinTech, RegTech and Financial
Services Consultant
Financial Services & RegTech
Anson Zeall Chairman ACESS
Antonina Levashenko Director, Russia-OECD Center Russian Presidential Academy
of National Economy and
Public Administration
Ben Yablon Chairman and Co-founder SALT Lending
Member Position Company/Organisation
Bernhard Haslhofer Senior Data Scientist, Digital Insight
Lab
Austrian Institute of
Technology
Bertrand Perez Managing Director and Chief
Operating Officer
Libra Association
Bitange Ndemo Professor of Entrepreneurship University of Nairobi
Chairman The Distributed Ledgers
Technology and Artificial
Intelligence Taskforce,
Ministry of Information,
Communications and
Technology, Kenya
Cara LaPointe Interim Co-Director, Institute for
Assured Autonomy, Applied Physics
Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
César Pérez-Chirinos Digital Transformation Advisor Ministry of Economy and
Business, Spain
Chungwon Lee Director, Multilateral Cooperation
Division
Ministry of Science and ICT,
Korea
Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi Emerging Technologies &
Innovation Leader (Artificial
Intelligence Practice Lead),
Government & Public Services
Deloitte
Daniel Greenland Deputy Director, Office of
International Financial Markets
Department of the Treasury,
United States
David Suomalainen Advisor, Division for Digital
Government
Ministry of Infrastructure,
Sweden
David Treat Senior Managing Director and
Global Blockchain Lead
Accenture
Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar CEO and Co-founder RSK Labs
Eleftheria Kostika Senior Advisor to the Bank of
Greece’s Deputy Governor John
(Iannis) Mourmouras
Bank of Greece, Greece
Eva Kaili Member, Committee on Industry,
Research and Energy
European Parliament
Frank Ricotta CEO and Founder BurstIQ
Hanane Boujemi Vice Chair, Arab IGF United Nations Economic and
Social Commission for
Western Asia
Heather Dahl Executive Director and CEO Sovrin Foundation
Member Position Company/Organisation
Hennie Bulstra Convenor, User Group Diplomas and
Credentials
European Blockchain
Partnership
Business Consultant, Policy and
Strategy
Education Implementation
Office (DUO), Ministry of
Education, Culture and
Science, The Netherlands
Hesham Bin-Abbas Emerging Technologies Consultant Ministry of Communication
and Information Technology,
Saudi Arabia
Igal Nevo CEO Israeli Blockchain Forum
Irene Adamski Partnership Developer Jolocom
Isabelle Corbett Head, Regulatory Affairs and
GovTech
R3
Janko Gorter Head, Financial Market
Infrastructures Policy Department
Netherlands Central Bank
(DNB), The Netherlands
Javier Barreiro Technology Director Presidency of the Republic,
Uruguay
Jean-Marc Leclerc Government and Regulatory Affairs
Executive
IBM
Jessi Baker MBE CEO and Founder Provenance
Joseph Lubin CEO and Founder ConsenSys
Joseph Thompson CEO AID:Tech
Juan (Jane) Wang Associate Professor on Blockchain Xi’an Jiaotong University
Jutta Steiner CEO and Founder Parity Technologies
Koh Wee Siong Assistant Director (Telco Analytics &
LBS), Next Generation Platforms
Infocomm Media
Development Authority,
Singapore
Lawrence Lundy-Bryan Partner and Head of Research Outlier Ventures
Lawrence Wintermeyer Co-Chair Global Digital Finance
Leanne Kemp CEO Everledger
Lee Schneider General Counsel block.one
Leena Im Head, Payments Policy Facebook
Marco Bellezza Legal Advisor for Communications
and Innovation
Ministry of Economic
Development, Italy
Maria Staszkiewicz Chair and CEO Czech Fintech Association
Mark Staples Senior Principal Researcher Data61, Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation,
Australia
Member Position Company/Organisation
Mārtiņš Braslavs Senior Expert, Credit Institution and
Payment Services Policy Division,
Financial Market Policy Department
Ministry of Finance, Latvia
Matt Curcio Data Vice President Ripple
Matthew Smith Technical Specialist, Innovation
Division
Financial Conduct Authority,
United Kingdom
Michal Číž Head, Digital Innovation Unit, Digital
Agenda Section
Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister of the Slovak
Republic for Investments and
Informatization, Slovak
Republic
Min Kyoung-sik Head, Blockchain Center Korea Internet and Security
Agency, Korea
Moisés Menéndez Founder and Core legal advisor ioBuilders
Nadia Filali Head, Blockchain Programs, and Cofounder and Pilot, LaBChain
Consortia
Groupe Caisse des Dépots,
France
Najma Bichara Advisor, Digital Affairs Ministry for Europe and
Foreign Affairs, France
Nasir Zubairi CEO Luxembourg House of
Financial Technology
Nena Dokuzov Head, New Economy and Blockchain
Technology Project Group
Ministry of Economic
Development and
Technology, Slovenia
Coordinator, Blockchain
Technologies
Nick Giurietto CEO and Managing Director Blockchain Australia
Nuno Rodrigues Member, Board of Directors Foundation for Science and
Technology (FCT), Ministry
for Science, Technology and
Higher Education, Portugal
Olaf Ransome Chief Commercial Officer Fnality International
Perianne Boring Founder and President Chamber of Digital
Commerce
Péter Sajtos Analyst, Digitalization and FinTech Central Bank of Hungary
(MNB), Hungary
Member Position Company/Organisation
Pēteris Zilgalvis Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and
Blockchain, Digital Single Market
Directorate
Directorate General
Communications Networks,
Content and Technology,
European Commission
Co-Chair FinTech Task Force, European
Commission
Philippe Thevoz Vice-President, e-Government
Systems
SICPA
Pirthipal Singh Senior Director, Digital Policy and
Service
Innovation, Science, and
Economic Development
Canada, Innovation, Science
and Economic Development
Portfolio, Canada
Primavera de Filippi Permanent Researcher CNRS
Research Fellow, Berkman Klein
Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
Rae Sheynberg Public Policy Manager, Regulatory Facebook
Rahilla Zafar Director, Blockchain Programs IMVU
Rasmus Madsen Jensen Architect and Developer Danish Maritime Authority,
Ministry of Industry, Business
and Financial Affairs,
Denmark
Ric Shreves Director, Emerging Technology Mercy Corps
Ricardo Pizzuto Consultant Inter-American Development
Bank
Roberto Sasso President Technology Research Club
Roman Beck Professor, Business IT Department IT University of Copenhagen
Samuel Lim Chief Compliance Officer Binance
Satu Vasamo-Koskinen Senior Specialist Ministry of Economic Affairs
and Employment, Finland
Shada Alsalamah Assistant Professor of Healthcare
Information Systems Security
King Saud University
Sheila Warren Head, Blockchain and Distributed
Ledger Technology
World Economic Forum
Shin'ichiro Matsuo Research Professor Georgetown University
Silvia Attanasio Head of Innovation Italian Banking Association
(ABI)
Silvia Ciucciovino Professor University of Roma Tre
Simon Chantry Co-founder and CBDO BITT
Member Position Company/Organisation
Stefaan Verhulst Co-founder, and Chief Research and
Development Officer, The GovLab
(Governance Lab)
New York University
Adjunct Professor
Stein Bjørnstad Chief Commercial Officer Blockchangers
Steven Becker President and COO Maker Foundation
Suso Baleato Member OECD Civil Society
Information Society Advisory
Board
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard
University Institute for Quantitative
Social Science
Harvard University
Tal Hefling Ludmir Senior Advisor to Director General Capital Market, Insurance
and Savings Authority, Israel
Tim Noonan Director, Campaigns and
Communications
International Trade Union
Confederation
Tom Kettels Operational Lead Infrachain
Valery Vavilov CEO Bitfury
Vanessa Almeida Digital Innovation Manager, and
Manager, Blockchain Initiative
Brazilian Development Bank
(BNDES), Brazil
Ville Sointu Head, Emerging Technologies Nordea
Yannis Kemel Deputy Head of Unit, Financial
Technology, Regulation & Public
Affairs
The Directorate General of
the Treasury, France
Advisor, Digital & Innovation Policy OECD
Yavuz Beyribey Vice President Presidency of the Republic of
Turkey Digital Transformation
Office, Turkey
Yoni Assia CEO eToro
Yorke Rhodes III Principal Program Manager,
Blockchain Engineering, Microsoft
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