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Bryan Zhang
Executive Director of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance & Executive Chair of Financial Innovation for Impact
University of Cambridge & Financial Innovation for Impact
View LinkedIn profileBryan is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a Co-Founder and the Executive Chair of Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) and a Co-Creator of C:\>DIR.
He has more than a decade of experience in researching technology-enabled financial innovation and its interplay with regulation, supervision and policy nationally, regionally and globally. Bryan has led and co-authored more than 70 reports on FinTech market trends, industry dynamics, regulatory changes and innovation as well as digital financial inclusion. The CCAF and Fii has collaborated with more than 5000 fintechs, 350 central banks and financial authorities, and directly trained 4400 policymakers, regulators and supervisors from 180 jurisdictions.
Bryan is a Non-Executive Director of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Chair of its Board Risk Committee, a member of Bank of England and HMT’s CBDC Engagement Forum, IMF's FAS Advisory Group, OECD's Steering Group on SME & Entrepreneurship Finance, Central Bank of UAE's Financial Inclusion and Literacy Advisory Group, DIFC's Innovation Panel and the Bretton Woods Committee. He co-chairs the Future of Global FinTech Initiative, a collaboration between CCAF and the World Economic Forum.
