Giovanni Bandi – University of Cambridge

Dr Bandi is the Executive Director of the Regulatory Genome Project at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an expert in financial regulation, regulation technologies and risk management analytics. In his current role he is involved in numerous projects to introduce AI processes, machine-readable regulations and RegTech applications to the global Regulators community. He also conducts research on technology applications for regulatory matters and regularly consults on financial services.

Before joining Cambridge University, Dr Bandi worked as Director of Supervision at the QFCRA in Qatar and he has been an IOSCO Investment Management Committee member for several years, chairing various working committees on fund leverage and digital assets investments. His regulator experience started at the UK’s FSA where he was a Technical Specialist for the Investment Management Supervision Department. He previously worked in Industry and has been the head of wealth management analytics at MSCI RiskMetrics. Dr Bandi also taught economics and finance for almost decade at Northwestern University in its Qatar campus.

Dr Bandi holds a PhD in Financial Regulation from Durham University, an LL.M in EU Business Law from pan-European universities (PALLAS group) and an MSc/BSc in Finance from Bocconi University.