BIOGRAFÍAS

Gian Boeddu, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, The World Bank

Gian Boeddu Gian Boeddu is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Team (part of the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice) at the World Bank.

Gian is an experienced financial services regulatory lawyer and at the World Bank he works primarily on financial consumer protection regulation and policy, market conduct supervision, financial consumer dispute resolution mechanisms, data privacy, and consumer issues relating to fintech and digital financial services.

Prior to joining the World Bank he was Special Counsel in financial services regulation at the law firm of King & Wood Mallesons, based in Australia, advising private and public sector clients on financial consumer protection, anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism, data privacy and credit reporting. He also previously worked at National Australia Bank, a major commercial bank, as a senior lawyer advising on financial services regulation and data privacy.

Gian has a Masters of Laws, a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting).

Jennifer Chien, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, The World Bank

Jennifer Chien Jennifer Chien is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist and a part of the Responsible Financial Access (RFA) team in the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank. She is an experienced lawyer with expertise in policy and regulatory environments for financial inclusion, consumer protection, and digital finance. She works on consumer protection regulatory reform and capacity-building, financial inclusion assessments, national financial inclusion strategies, and RFA global knowledge products. She previously worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank, USAID, and other clients in financial inclusion and consumer protection. Prior to this, Ms. Chien worked at CGAP as the manager of the Financial Inclusion Regulation Center and in the private sector as a corporate finance attorney at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a credit union analyst at the World Council of Credit Unions, and a management consultant at Oliver Wyman. Jennifer holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Ivor Istuk, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, The World Bank

Ivor Istuk is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Team (part of the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice) at the World Bank.

Ivor's work at the World Bank mainly focuses on legal, regulatory and policy matters related to MSME access to finance reforms, alternative credit / financial innovation and financial consumer protection.

Prior to joining the World Bank Ivor worked as Principal Counsel in the Financial Law Unit of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where he was

responsible for the Unit's access to finance work. His work included providing expert advice to EBRD clients on financial sector matters including secured transactions, asset-based lending regimes, factoring, leasing, NBFI regulation, the SME operational environment and pre-harvest and post-harvest agricultural finance. Ivor started his career as a practicing lawyer advising clients on various aspects of financial law and regulatory matters.