Kieran Garvey

Kieran Garvey leads AI research at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Alternative Finance, focusing on how AI is being adopted across financial authorities, industry and AI vendors worldwide. He has over 15 years’ experience in FinTech, AI, and regulatory innovation, building technical capabilities in 300+ financial authorities across 120+ countries and designing machine learning capacity building programmes for quant researchers and engineers. He led the creation of the UK's first Master Level AI Apprenticeship, as well as the BBC's Data Driven Journalism apprenticeship. He holds degrees from Imperial College London and the London School of Economics, and has published over 30 global reports on FinTech market development and regulation as well as on Agentic AI in finance.