Albasha Abbas

Senior Strategy Consultant with over fifteen years of senior experience in central banking, national financial infrastructure modernisation, and strategic technology innovation. Former Central Bank Vice Governor, Vice Chairman of the board and former Vice Minister of Finance and former Executive Director at the board of the Arab Monetary Fund, representing six countries. Led the establishment of a stock market and its regulator, Securities Market Commission, as former head of the Securities Market Project Unit. Expert in CBDC architecture design, tokenised assets and cross-border platform designs. Contributed to the development of CBDC road maps and technical integration of advanced digital currency sandboxes for central banks at pilot and proof of concept projects. Part-time lecturer at the EU Business School in Munich.