Meeting Schedules

Chair, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Marlene Amstad serves as Chair of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and as Chair of the SupTech Forum of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). She brings more than three decades of expertise at the intersection of finance and technology across Asia, the United States, and Europe, with a particular focus on how data and technology are reshaping central banking and financial supervision. Her previous roles include positions at the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She spent nearly a decade in Asia, where she coordinated the Asian Bond Fund initiative at the BIS in Hong Kong and served as an asset management advisor to more than ten Asian central banks. In Shenzhen, she served as Co-Director of the FinTech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute, where she worked at the intersection of finance and emerging technologies and saw first-hand how quickly digital finance can reshape daily life. She is co-editor and co-author of the book CBDC and FinTech in Asia. Marlene Amstad is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bern and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Ms. Maechler has been Deputy General Manager of the BIS since September 2023. She was previously Chair of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee of central banks from 2021 to 2023 and a member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from 2015 to 2023. At the SNB, she was responsible for the Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Banking Operations and Information Technology portfolios. Prior to joining the SNB, she was Deputy Division Chief in the Global Markets Analysis Division of the International Monetary Fund. She has also worked at the European Systemic Risk Board and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She has a PhD and a master's degree in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Diploma of Higher Studies (DES) in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Brazil

Mr. Picchetti has served as Deputy Governor for International Affairs and Corporate Risk Management at Banco Central do Brasil since January 2024. He has also been a professor at the Sao Paulo School of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas since 2006. He was previously a member of the of the Brazilian Business Cycle Dating Committee (2004-2022) and a researcher and at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2006-2022), and he taught at Universidade de São Paulo (1995-2005). His work has focused on econometrics, business cycles, and inflation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Head of APAC Policy, Anthropic

Mr. Sellitto currently leads Anthropic's policy work in Asia-Pacific and has held a variety of leadership positions on the Anthropic policy team since 2022. He is also on the Board of the Frontier Model Forum and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Before joining Anthropic, he was the founding Deputy Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. From 2015 to 2018, he served in the White House as Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the National Security Council staff. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stern School of Business at New York University and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy school.

Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Mr. Bo Li assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the IMF on August 23, 2021. He is responsible for the IMF’s work on about 90 countries as well as on a wide range of policy issues. Before joining the IMF, Mr. Li worked for many years at the People’s Bank of China, most recently as Deputy Governor. He earlier headed the Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy II, and Legal and Regulation Departments, where he played an important role in the reform of state-owned banks, the drafting of China’s anti-money-laundering law, the internationalization of the renminbi, and the establishment of China’s macroprudential policy framework. Outside of the PBoC, Mr. Li served as Vice Mayor of Chongqing—China’s largest municipality, with a population of over 30 million—where he oversaw the city’s financial-sector development, international trade, and foreign direct investment. Mr. Li was also Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. He started his career at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a practicing attorney for five years. Mr. Li holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Boston University, both in economics, as well as a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate education from Renmin University of China in Beijing.