We’ve been growing our expertise through our Fellowship Programme. Dr. Estelle Brack is a leader in finance, with a special focus on digitisation and ethical projects. She joined as our Fellow in France.
We are thrilled to have her on board, especially with our report, “CBDCs: Geopolitical Ramifications of a Major Digital Currency”, set to release next week.
We asked her to give us more insight into the European startup ecosystem, innovations in financial services, and what she is currently working on.
She told us:
‘I wish the [European] ecosystem will continue to grow and be a great place for startups and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas. Funding remains key, as well as good ideas to be transformed into successful startups.
‘Investors, regulators and supervisors also remain key for promoting this ecosystem, and in particular to build European competitors to US and Chinese GAFAM/BATX/NATU - the tech giants, all based in the US or China. In particular, I see especially Cloud infrastructure and data protection to remain key for sovereignty in Europe. We should be able to give young European experts the opportunities to stay in Europe, instead of going to the US and promoting the Goggle model for example’.
We look forward to working with her more. Read the full interview here.
