Serey Chea is an Assistant Governor at National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) in charge of Economic Research and International Cooperation Department, Foreign Reserve Management Department, Payment System Department, Statistic Department and Banking Operation Department since 2013. Under her leadership, retail payment infrastructure has been modernized with the introduction of a national shared switch for cards transactions and FAST payment system, a real time fund transfer from a bank account to another bank account in Cambodia. She is chairwoman of the Credit Bureau Cambodia Ltd., the first and only privately run credit sharing system in Cambodia. She played a leading role in the establishment of the CBC, which contributed to the ranking of Cambodia at the 7th place worldwide for the Ease of Access to Credit in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2017.

Currently, she serves as an International Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute, and an Advisor to the Board of ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN). She was a member of the Southeast Asia Advisory Council of Women World Banking, and is a member of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2019, a forum of Young Global Leaders created by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Also, she is a member of the WEF’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and the Advisory Committee of the Digital Payments for Trade and Commerce project. She is a strong advocate for women economic empowerment and financial inclusion and served as Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI’s) high level Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion Committee (GWFIC). Serey was a senior fellow of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and is currently holding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis entitled: “Impact of Financial Inclusion and Liberalization on ASEAN Economic Development” from the University of Adelaide (Australia). On top of these, she has taken part in the judging panel in the G20 TechSprint Initiative launched by the Saudi G20 Presidency and BIS Innovation Hub, and is recently invited by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) to join the Asian Impact Leaders Network (AILN), which is a network of leaders who are at the forefront of driving changes in the region in critically important areas.

Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance.  Twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world, she is perhaps best known as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, when she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  For her efforts to protect bank depositors and homeowners during the crisis, she received the Kennedy Library's Profiles In Courage Award, and was named the "little guy's protector in chief" by Time Magazine. A former finance professor and college president, Ms. Bair has been nationally recognized for her innovative initiatives to make college more accessible and affordable.  She is a frequent commentator and op-ed contributor on financial regulation and the student debt crisis, as well as author of the NY Times Best Seller, Bull by the Horns, her 2012 memoir of the financial crisis.  She is also author of Albert Whitman’s Money Tales series for young people.  https://www.amazon.com/author/sheilabair
 
Ms. Bair currently serves on the board of Bunge Ltd, as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee, and Lion Electric, as Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee.  She is also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Santander Group, serves on the board of Paxos, a blockchain technology trust company, and as an advisor to several fintech startups.  Her past corporate boards include Fannie Mae, where she served as the first woman Chair; Thomson Reuters, where she chaired the Risk Committee; and Host Hotels.  She is a founding director of the Volcker Alliance, established by former Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker to build trust in government and is the founding chair of the Systemic Risk Council, which advocates for financial stability.  She is also a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security and serves as Senior Advisor to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on financial issues confronting young people.

Sigal Mandelker joined Ribbit Capital in April 2020. Ribbit is an investment firm focused on financial services and technology. Prior to Ribbit, she served as Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and as Acting Deputy Secretary.  As Under Secretary, Sigal supervised four main components of Treasury (OFAC, FinCEN, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes).  Before serving at Treasury, Sigal was a partner at Proskauer in New York.  Sigal also previously served in a number of senior positions in the U.S. government, including as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, an AUSA in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. Sigal is also an Advisor to Chainalysis, is on the Boards of the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Financial Technology Association, is Co-Chair of the Center for a New American Security’s (CNAS) task force on FinTech, Crypto, and National Security, and is Member of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. 

Sonam Wangchuk was born in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh in J&K, India. 

Though a Mechanical Engineer by education, he has been mostly working in the field of education reform for more than 30 years.  In 1988, just after he finished his engineering studies he founded SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) www.secmol.org, with the aim of supporting Ladakhi children and youth in educationally challenging and culturally confusing times. In 1994 he was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope, a triangular collaboration of the government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government schools system. The programme involved formation of Village Education Committees to take ownership of state schools, training of teachers in child friendly ways and re-writing and publishing localised text books for Ladakh. As a result the pass percentage at 10th grade (matriculation) rose from the dismal 5% to 55% in seven years and 75% these days.

For students who still failed in their state exams he founded the SECMOL Alternative School Campus near Leh, a special school where the admission criteria is failure in exams and not high grades. However with the supportive and creative environment at the school, the so called failures have excelled in their chosen fields and risen to international acclaim as entrepreneurs, film makers, politicians, teachers and so on.

As an engineer Sonam Wangchuk has been teaching innovation at the SECMOL Alternative School, where together with the students he designed and built solar heated buildings that are low cost, made of earth/mud but maintain +15 C even when the outside temperature is – 15 C in Ladakhi winters. 

In order to solve the water crisis facing mountain regions due to climate change and fast melting glaciers he invented the Ice Stupa artificial glacier which stores the unused stream waters in winter in the form of giant ice cones or stupas and releases the water in late spring as they melt... just when farmers need water.

Sonam Wangchuk was granted several awards and titles, to name a few:-
Magsaysay Award from Philipines (Asian version of the Nobel Prize), 2018
The GQ Men Of The Year Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 in India,
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, Paris 2017,
The Rolex Award for Enterprise 2016 in Hollywood USA.

Prior to joining the Board of the Algorand Foundation, Staci ran the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on capital market development, crypto/blockchain solutions, and innovative finance to promote the sustainable development goals. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for cryptocurrencies and blockchain to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve inclusion and reduce global poverty. In addition to the Algorand Foundation, she sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, and the Energy for Growth Hub.  She also serves on the advisory committees of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee (STOA), the U.S. Financial Technology Association, and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.

Stuart Haber is a cryptographer, best known as the co-inventor of the blockchain technique for ensuring the integrity of digital data.  His work has bridged pure research and practical cybersecurity over the course of a 30-year career spent both at large established companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Labs, and Bellcore (Bell Communications Research), as well as at startups such as InterTrust and Surety -- which in 1995 deployed the world's first commercial blockchain as the foundation of the time-stamping service that he founded with his co-inventor, Scott Stornetta. Haber received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.S. from Stanford University, both in mathematics, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University.

Tan Yinglan founded Insignia Ventures Partners in late 2017 and is the Founding Managing Partner.  Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages more than US$450 million from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. See more at http://www.insignia.vc  

He also co-hosts the On Call with Insignia Ventures podcast, where he chats with portfolio founders and regional investors. An author on venture capital, startups and innovation, he recently published his fourth book, Navigating ASEANnovation (World Scientific, 2020). He also serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and is a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution.

Tascha Che (@taschalabs) is a macroeconomist, startup advisor, and angel investor. A prominent thought leader on the web 3.0 economy, she has helped shape the industry’s thinking on how to assess the economic values of blockchain platforms and how decentralized business models can improve income distribution in society.

Dr. Che is the founder of Tascha Labs, a web 3.0 education and consulting services firm, and Soundwise, an audio publishing software company. She holds a PhD in Macroeconomics from Georgetown University, and bachelor’s degrees in Economics, Applied Mathematics and English Literature from Peking University.