Elise is the Executive Director of Global Digital Finance (GDF), board member, and also board advisor to several start-ups on policy & regulatory issues. 

Previously, she was at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, leading Digital Assets and Data Strategy work, & prior to that at the Financial Conduct Authority, working across both their Technology, Resilience and Cyber Division and International Division. 

Named ‘Next Generation Leader of the Year’ by Women in Finance Awards UK, her dual public and private sector experience positions her to support digitisation across the financial services ecosystem.

When not working on all things digital finance, she enjoys baking, hiking, and reading lots of sci-fi & fantasy. Her favourite book is Brave New World and her ideal weekend includes a run with her labradoodle & husband in Regent's Park + a trip to the Gower Street Waterstones.

Jannah Patchay is the founder of Markets Evolution, a consultancy specialising in financial markets innovation and strategy in both traditional financial and digital asset markets. Her current focus areas include the development of digital asset markets and new forms of digital money. Jannah has been active in developing a number of organisations that helped to drive the regulatory agenda, both in the UK and globally, with respect to digital finance, including the Digital Pound Foundation, Global Blockchain Convergence, the Whitechapel Think Tank and London Blockchain Foundation.

Jannah loves to travel and has been to at least 50 countries, many of which are the more obscure ones. Other hobbies include Asian food (both cooking and eating), cycling (though this is arguably not recreational when undertaken in central London), and lifting heavy things and putting them down again at the gym. She is also a huge sci-fi geek, with a tendency towards hard SF and space opera.

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