Greg Medcraft

Greg Medcraft is currently an independent non executive Director of Australian Finance Group Ltd a leading listed financial services group in Australia; Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre, Australian based research organization funded jointly funded by Government, industry and universities focussed on digital finance; Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) -Digital Finance, a UK based global market standards and education industry group; Salzburg Global Seminar Inc, a Washington based think-tank. He also acts as Senior Board adviser to Infraclear Inc, a Washington based fintech; LendInvest a listed UK based fintech property finance and fund manager. Greg has extensive experience working in financial markets and services, from a policy regulatory and industry perspective. In policy, Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD from November 2017 until July 2021 overseeing OECD,s policy and standard setting work in the fields of markets and business conduct, including digital and sustainable finance.Greg established the OECD Blockchain policy research centre and annual forum and was a member of the Financial Stability Board’s taskforce, report and recommendations on issues and regulatory approaches global stablecoins. He also was a member World Economic Forum’s Blockchain and Digital Assets groups work on DeFi policy. In regulation, from 2009 to 2017, he was initially a Commissioner and later the Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia's corporate, markets, financial services and credit regulator. At ASIC, he established the Fintech Innovation Hub and Fintech sandbox.While ASIC Chairman, Greg was also, for three years until May 2016, Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Board and a member of the Financial Stability Board. In industry, initially with accounting firm KPMG then nearly 3 decades in investment banking Société Générale in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas and then as CEO of the industry group, the Australian Securitisation Forum. At Société Générale, he initially worked on corporate finance, then capital markets. When he was based in New York, Greg co-founded the industry group, the American Securitization Forum, and was its Chairman for a number of years. Greg, an Australian national, holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and is a qualified Chartered Accountant