Principal Digital Finance & Fintech Advisor at International Finance Corporation
Dr. de Barreda is a trilingual (English, French and Spanish) Senior Executive with 30 years of experience in advising the C-Suite (CEO, CSO, CMO, CFO…) and Board of Directors.
Digital Financial Services expert enabling Digital Transformation for Financial Institutions. This broad activity entails: Digital Maturity Assessment, drafting Digital Strategies through radical Customer Experience changes in customer journeys and Process Automation, introducing Agile methodologies, identification of suitable FinTechs and RegTechs to partner with. When supporting Governments and Central Banks, Dr. de Barreda focuses on providing legal opinions about Digital Finance and drafting Digital Financial Services Policies and Regulations and designing pilots to test cashless policies.
Proven experience in +45 countries, developing high-performance and diverse teams, having led +100 people during his career and worked with +1,000 people at his clients in +500 different projects.
He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a midsize digitally focused bank and a advisory firm and holds a PhD degree in Applied Economics.