For eight years, Staci Warden ran the Global Market Development Practice at the Milken Institute, where she led initiatives on strengthening capital markets, innovative finance of the SDGs, and crypto-blockchain and FinTech for financial inclusion. Prior to Milken, Warden ran J.P. Morgan’s public sector practice for EMEA out of London for six years, and prior to that, worked in sovereign DCM in New York. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies. Her work in the public and non-profit sectors include senior positions at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

She sits on the boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the Algorand Foundation, and chairs the Board of the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, a cabinet appointed position. She serves on several high-profile advisory committees, including those of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the European Parliament’s International Science and Technology Committee (STOA), and the U.S. Financial Technology Association.