This course was created by two leading experts in the field of Digital Financial Supervision, Denise Dias and Mehmet Kerse.
Denise has 24 years of experience with financial sector policy, regulation, and supervision, having worked in multiple countries. She provides regulatory advice and technical assistance to financial sector authorities on consumer protection, digital financial services, retail payments, open finance, and innovation. She works as an independent consultant for CGAP, the World Bank, the Toronto Centre, the Gates Foundation, Digital Frontiers, and other organizations.
Denise's background includes regulating and supervising banks and nonbanks at the Central Bank of Brazil, founding and managing an online marketing business, and auditing government programs for the Brazilian Ministry of Finance. She holds an MBA in International Banking and Finance and an MBA in Financial Sector Economics. She speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish, and is learning French.
Mehmet is a consultant specializing in the regulation and supervision of digital finance. His recent work focuses on areas such as fintech, digital banking, embedded finance, tokenization, and artificial intelligence in financial services. He works as a consultant with multiple organizations such as the World Bank Group, IMF, UNCDF, and Digital Frontiers. With over 15 years of experience in financial regulation and supervision, Mehmet has collaborated with numerous central banks and financial regulators primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Arab countries.
Mehmet began his career as a bank supervisor at the Banking Regulation and Supervision Authority of Turkey and later worked on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism projects for the World Bank. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner.
He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bilkent University in Turkey.
Denise and Mehmet will be joining you on your learning journey as Technical Experts on this first cohort. They will be leading the Class Calls, marking your assignments, and will be available to answer some of the technical questions you may have.