Chartsiri Sophonpanich
Board Advisor, The Thai Bankers’ Association; President, Bangkok Bank

Chartsiri Sophonpanich is president of Bangkok Bank, Thailand’s leading corporate and business bank and one of the largest banks in ASEAN. The bank has a long-standing presence across Southeast Asia, as well as in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York and London. Its overall international network includes 32 locations in 15 economies. He is also a director of Post Publishing PCL and the Electronic Transactions Development Agency. He is a member of the National Strategy Committee and the National Economic Reform Committee, sits on the board of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, a director of TRG Management LP and TRG Allocation LLC, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bangkok University. He also serves as the board advisor to The Thai Bankers’ Association. He holds Master’s degrees in management and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Greg Kidd
Co-Founder & CEO, GlobaliD

Greg Kidd is a firm believer that one’s identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Kidd has acted as an advisor/investor for numerous startups in the exchange space including Ripple, Square, and Twitter through his seed investment firm Hard Yaka. He has served as director at Promontory Financial, senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve, and senior associate at Booz Allen. Kidd has founded multiple companies, including Dispatch Management Services Corp, which he took public on the NASDAQ. His leadership pursuits include work at Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

Rosaline Chow Koo
Founder & CEO CXA Group

Ayden Férdeline,
Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla Foundation

At Mozilla, Ayden Férdeline researches the ongoing development and harmonization of global privacy standards. He is working to develop an ambitious new toolkit for effectively operationalizing privacy protections online, identifying appropriate regulatory interventions that could incentivize data controllers to adopt higher privacy protections. He is currently a Councilor on the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, the body which sets policy for generic top-level domain names like .com, where he represents the interests of non-commercial users and uses of the Domain Name System. Before joining Mozilla, Férdeline supported the Internet Society’s global public policy team and was a researcher for the data and analytics group YouGov. He has previously facilitated workshops at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, and the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, among others.

David Chang
Vice President, Shanghai Blockchain Association

Tyler Aveni is currently a senior product manager at WeBank, Tencent’s affiliate bank and the first online and privately owned bank in China, where he is responsible for oversees cross-border collaboration and the development of innovative products using emerging technologies. Prior, he was the lead China analyst for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), housed at the World Bank Group. He was also the Country Director for SuperCharger FinTech accelerator, where he expanded Hong Kong’s leading program for fintech startups to Malaysia by building a local team and developing strategic partnerships with local institutions. Prior to that, he was Co-country director for Planet Finance in Beijing, a non-governmental organization focused on improving financial services for micro-entrepreneurs and small/medium-sized enterprises.

Harvey Dzodin
Senior Fellow, Centre for China & Globalisation; former Political Appointee of President Jimmy Carter

Harvey Dzodin currently serves as senior fellow of the think tank, Center for China and Globalization and senior advisor of Tsinghua University National Image Research Center specialising in city branding. Dzodin was a political appointee of President Jimmy Carter and served as Counsel to a presidential commission. He was a legislative assistant in the US Congress following issues on the House Banking Committee and served at the UN office in Vienna, Austria. He was director and vice president of ABC Television in New York for more than two decades. Nowadays, Dzodin is a Beijing-based columnist, guest commentator and author of hundreds of columns in China Daily, Global Times, china.org.cn and other publications with an emphasis on Sino-US relations, international affairs, China’s Belt & Road initiative, as well art and culture.

Abdul Rahman AlAshraf
Entrepreneur, Innovator and Founder

Abdul Rahman AlAshraf is a Tech entrepreneur, Founder and Innovator. He received the European Youth Award Young Digital Champion after his Startup FreeCom has won the overall European Youth Award, for an innovative new communication method which provides alternative connection for people to communicate with when no internet or mobile network is available. He works currently as a Software Consultant for “MHP – A Porsche Company” in the automotive industry, an ambassador for the European Youth Award, and serves as an advisory member for Popular Science Arabia and is a Public Speaker.

Noppachai Tungshinpulchai,
Head of Information Technology Risk Management, Krung Thai Bank

Noppachai Tungsinpulchai has an extensive experience in financial budgeting control, risk management, technology implementation, process improvement and internal control for over 10 years for financial service institution and large multinational Companies. He actively drive business to achieve the business result and monitoring the goal both financial operation and regulatory compliance. Currently he is a Vice President IT Security Leaders at Ayudhaya Capital Services Co., Ltd. the largest Credit Card and Consumer Finance in Thailand with more than 6 million accounts

Dušan Stojanović
Founding Partner, True Global Ventures 4 Plus

Dušan Stojanović is the founder and director at True Global Ventures 3, an investment vehicle set up by serial entrepreneurs within B2B Fintech. Together with 80 founding and affiliate partners, he is building a decentralized fund investing in Distributed Ledger Technologies across 30 cities. He has worked for more than 20 years within Business Development, primarily within Fintech, including payments and media. Previously, he worked at GE Capital and Monabanq.com and he also has his own ventures and investments. He has a solid track record with 10 out of 19 investments fully or partly exited, all related to payments and Fintech. In 2013, Stojanović was awarded Business Angel of the Year in Europe by the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), after having three positive exits within a week. He was also announced as one of FINTECH ASIA 100 Leaders in Asian Fintech in 2016.

Steve Monaghan
Chairman and CEO, GenLife

Steve Monaghan is Chairman and CEO of GenLife, a Silicon Valley based start-up in which AIA became the lead investor, to create an R&D capability for insurers around the world in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. Originally a commercial pilot, Steve has held senior corporate and banking roles in product, marketing, operations, innovation and general management. He has worked for leading corporations and financial institutions including Dell, Compaq, Citigroup, OCBC, Shinsei, DBS Bank and AIA. Throughout his career, he has specialized in introducing new business models, businesses and products in all major markets in Asia and has filed 6 patents in FinTech. Beside GenLife Steve hold board level positions in True Global Ventures, Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, HK Israel Trade Association, Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO’s.

Jaspar Roos
Founding Partner, Limpid & Co

Jaspar is a renowned international authority in the field of innovation, transformation and trends. He is considered a pioneer in topics as corporate innovation and human driven cultures. His experience spans from running a corporate innovation unit (Chief Inspiration Officer at ABN Amro) to launching digital ventures. Jaspar has led and contributed to over 100 digital innovation & transformational projects in different industries throughout the world. He is an avid writer on disruption and transformation, amongst others as columnist of the Dutch Financial Times. Jaspar is member of several Advisory Boards.

Zong Liang, Lead Researcher, Bank of China

Zong Liang has been invited to share his views on the further opening-up of the Chinese capital market. He currently serves as the lead researcher at Bank of China, and secretary general and member of academic committee of Cross Border Finance 50. In the past few years, Zong was involved in more than 20 research projects and published more than 200 papers in a number of well-known journals such as Studies of International Finance and Financial Times. He also participated in the completion of more than 10 professional books such as The End of Globalization (November 2020), Theories and Prospects of RMB Internationalization, and Global Financial Change after the Crisis.

Li Zhen, Assistant General Manager,
Tianyi E-Commerce

Li Zhen will share her view on anti-fraud measures in e-payments. She is currently the assistant general manager and chief risk officer of Tianyi E-Commerce. She is also in charge of the bid data department at the company. In addition, she also serves as supervisor of Tianyi Credit Information and supervisor of Tianyi Digital Technology (Beijing).

Xu Qiyuan, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director,
Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Xu Qiyuan is senior fellow and deputy director at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He joined IWEP in 2008 and, in 2012, became an advisor to the international collaboration department of the Ministry of Finance of People’s Republic of China since 2012. Xu also sits in the IWEP work team which issues a quarterly report on global macroeconomics of China’s External Economic Environment (CEEM). He is in charge of the research on China’s economy and international economic policy. He has published 60 academic papers, and hundreds of columns in leading media outfits in Chinese and English including those in Financial Times and Financial World. He has also published five books on China’s economy and international finance.

Chen Yajuan, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Analytics and Empowerment Business Unit, WISECO Technology

Chen Yajuan is currently the chief operating officer and general manager, analytics and empowerment business unit, of WISECO Technology. For the company, she built a digital operation system providing full credit life cycle solutions that helps clients improve risk management and customer acquisition. She has more than 20-year experience in data decision-making management and solutions. Before joining WISECO, Chen worked as the director of solutions and director of big data scoring operations at Fair Isaac Corporation China, facilitating the formation of data scoring system.

Shen Yan, Deputy Director, Institute of Digital Finance and Professor of Finance, National School of Development, Peking University

Shen Yan is deputy director of the institute of digital finance and professor of finance of the national school of development at Peking University. She is also deputy director of the ministry of education at Peking University Human Capital and National Policy Research Center, associate editor of China Economic Journal, distinguished scholar of quantitative economics in China, vice president of the Chinese Society for Quantitative Economics, and a member of the China Finance Association. Her recent research interests are focused on digital finance, big data analytics and program evaluation. Shen has published papers in Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and top Chinese journals including Economic Research Journals, Management World, Financial Research, The Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics. She has won the “best paper of the year” award in Financial Research.

John Gong, Vice President, Research and Strategy, University of International Business and Economics - Israel

John Gong currently is the vice president of research and strategy at University of International Business and Economics in Israel. He is also a professor, researcher and expert in the fields of finance, international trade, antitrust, patent dispute and competition policies. He serves as an expert consultant at the Ministry of Commerce’s Antitrust Bureau in China, and acted as the chief architect of the Bureau’s national competition database project. Meanwhile, he is serving as an academic affiliate with Global Economics Group, a leading global economics consulting firm based in the US. He is also the principal author for the China section of the policy position paper by the BRICS New World Bank’s steering committee during its foundation time. He is also a renowned op-ed columnist for several leading newspapers including the South China Morning Post, Global Times and China Global Television Network, on economic and political issues.

Zhang Yongqiang, Expert, Internet Finance, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Zhang Yongqiang is an internet finance expert at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. He has more than 20 years of experience in banking management.