Who We Are
The Board

Andrew Whitworth
Chair of the Board (Ripple)

Steven McWhirter
Board Member (Binance)

Katie Harries
Board Member (Coinbase)

Lee Schneider
Board Member (Ava Labs)

Manmeet Singh
Board Member (Blockseed)
The Secretariat

Robert Kopitsch
Secretary General

Tommaso Astazi
Head of EU Regulatory Affairs

Thomas Thaler
Head of Institutional Engagement

Stefan Kromolicki
Legal Officer

Luca Negro
Head of Communications

Bartolomeo Poggi
Policy Officer

Georgios Papatzikas
Policy Officer
Advisory Council

Michal Boni
Former Polish Minister for Digitization and former Member of the European Parliament

Georg Brameshuber
University of Vienna

Oriol Caudevilla Parellada
Asian Institute of International Financial Law – The University of Hong Kong

Thomas Dünser
Principality of Liechtenstein – Office for Financial Market Innovation and Digitalisation

Miguel Fernández Ordóñez
Former Governor of Banco de España

Agata Ferreira
Warsaw University of Technology

Geoffrey Goodell
University College London

Pehr Granfalk
Member of the European Committee of the Regions

Antonio Lanotte
Unitelma Sapienza – University of Rome

Maria Minaricova
Former Chair of Blockchain for Europe

Philipp Sandner
Frankfurt School of Finance – Blockchain Center

Fabian Schär
Center for Innovative Finance – University of Basel

Kevin Werbach
Wharton School – University of Pennsylvania

Marwan Al Zarouni
Dubai Blockchain Center