JOCHEN BIEDERMANN

Managing Director, World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC)

Founder & CEO, Blockchain Asia, Hong Kong

Managing Partner, FinTech Consult, Amsterdam / Frankfurt / Hong Kong / Seoul / Singapore / Tel Aviv / Vienna

Senior Advisor, Frankfurt Main Finance (Financial Centre of Frankfurt)

Member, Advisory Council on FinTech, Astana International Financial Centre

Expert, Sino-German Center for Finance and Economics, Frankfurt

Fellow, Think Tank der Asian Financial Cooperation Association, Beijing

Mentor, Accelerator Frankfurt

Mentor, Plug & Play Tech Center

Mentor, Qatar FinTech Hub, Doha

Jochen Biedermann serves as Managing Director of the World Alliance of International Financial Centres (WAIFC), an international non-profit association registered in Brussels. WAIFC represents leading international financial centres across four continents.

In addition, Jochen is the CEO of Blockchain Asia Ltd., a Blockchain company founded in Hong Kong in 2016. He serves as an expert to the Sino-German Center for Finance and Economics in Frankfurt, which is backed by the central banks, government institutions and leading universities in China and Germany. He is also a Fellow of the Think Tank of the Asian Financial Cooperation Association, based in Beijing.

Jochen is Senior Advisor at Frankfurt Main Finance, the initiative of Frankfurt financial centre, where he takes care of development and implementing partnerships between Frankfurt and other international financial centres. Furthermore, he is the FinTech coordinator for the EU Financial Centre Roundtable, a member of the Advisory Council on FinTech of Astana International Financial Centre, as well as a mentor at Accelerator Frankfurt, Plug and Play Tech Center and the Qatar FinTech Hub.

From 1999 to 2013 Jochen worked for Deutsche Boerse Group. As SVP for International Affairs, he oversaw its business in emerging markets.

Since 2001 he regularly serves as a lecturer at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management as well as a supervisor of its MBA students.

Jochen holds a diploma in mathematics & computer science from the University of Goettingen and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Cottbus, Germany.