Industry

Strategic Advisor to Board of ETPPA - European Third Party Providers' Association

Member of the CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies' Task Force on the Future of Retail Payments in the EU organised by the ECRI European Credit Research Institute 

Advisory Board to Africa FinTech, Nigeria 

Advisory Board Mastercard Latin America & Caribbean, Miami

Consultant Partner to Open Banking Exchange, Paris/Global  

Expert of the Digital Euro Association DEA, Europe

Mentor to the "1871 FinTech Innovation Lab", Chicago

Expert to ECB on  the design of a central bank digital currency CBDC

Leadership board of Digitinary NextGen Digital Solutions, Amman, Jordan

Co-founder Global Expert Council of Asia Payments Connect, Singapore

Founder CAPS (Convenient Access to Payment Services), Europe  

Advisory Board Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 Open Finance, Europe/Global

Advisory Board to Regional Hero, Germany

Advisor to NOBO "Frictionless Finance" Fintech Africa on Open Banking and CBDC    

Strategic Partner to FinTech Istanbul, Turkey  

Strategic Partner to Payments Consulting Network, Australia  

Advisory Council of Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), London   

Member of Frankfurt Payments Network e.V. (FPN), Germany 

Advisory Board for MBA and Masters studies on Internationalen Management, International School of Management (ISM), Munich  

Lecturer at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in “AI in Fintech and Open Banking Programme”, Oxford  

Lecturer at Ozyegin University, Graduate School of Business, Graduate Financial Engineering Program, University of Istanbul at Executive MBA Course on Open Finance, Turkey

Lecturer on FinTech at Sabanci University's Master in Finance Program, Turkey

Lecturer on "Frontiers in FinTech" within the Master of Financial Technologies at the Swinburne University of Technology, the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Melbourne, Australia

Evaluator for the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), the National Research Funding Agency of Cyprus 

Freeman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers

Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce FRSA

Freeman of the City of London

Co-creator and director of Transaction Innovation Forum, Japan

Program Committee of the International Conference on Financial Technology (ICFT), Singapore

Advisory Board to International Payments Summit/Payment International IPS/IP (“Europe’s Most Prestigious Payments Forum”) , Leadership Board of Kinfos Instant Payments Summit and their Open Banking Forum and more, such as CBDC Conference

Advisory Board to Currency Research (“The World’s Resource for Currency Knowledge”), the leading global resource for central banks, their suppliers, and the related supply chain for currency and payment systems

Editorial board of Henry Stewart Publications (Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems JPSS – the internationally leading peer-reviewed journal for international advances in payments, also Applied Marketing Analytics, Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal), London  

Editorial Board of Inderscience Publishers Ltd for the American Journal of Finance and Accounting

Editorial board of E-finance & Payments Law & Policy and Payments & FinTech Lawyer, the monthly journals for the online finance and payments industry, Cecile Park publishing, London

Editorial board of peer-reviewed Journal Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (ACIS)  

Member of the Bank-IT advisory board for Handelsblatt, Germany 

ECB European Central Bank advisory boards

EC/EP European Commission/European Parliament

EPC European Payments Council

PSMEG Payments Systems Market Expert Group

ERPB European Retail Payments Board

Executive Board Adviser Worldline Financial Services  

and many more