Dr Giovanni Bandi
Executive Director
Dr Bandi is the Executive Director of the Regulatory Genome Project at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an expert in financial regulation and regulation technologies. In his current role he is involved in numerous projects to introduce AI processes, machine-readable regulations and regtech applications to the global Regulators community. He also conducts research on technology applications for regulatory matters and collaborates with the IMF and the World Bank as expert in their missions for securities regulations and fintech/suptech.
Before joining Cambridge University, Dr Bandi worked as Director of Supervision at the QFCRA in Qatar and he has been an IOSCO Investment Management Committee member for several years, chairing various working committees on fund leverage and digital assets investments.
His regulator experience started at the FSA where he was a Technical Specialist for the Investment Management Supervision Department. He previously worked in Industry and has been the head of wealth management analytics at MSCI RiskMetrics. Dr Bandi also taught economics and finance for almost decade at Northwestern University in its Qatar campus.
Dr Bandi holds a PhD in Financial Regulation from Durham University, an LL.M in EU Business Law from pan-European universities (PALLAS group) and an MSc/BSc in Finance from Bocconi University.
Dr Yassar Nasser
Head of Global Relations
Dr Nasser is the Head of Global Relations at the RGP. Yassar is an international Executive and Academic with a solid track record in established and emerging markets. His international career involved senior and board positions at major universal banks, commercial enterprises, and renowned universities globally. Yassar combined his professional career with Academia, holding a Doctorate in Monetary Economics and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. He teaches on the Master of Finance and EMBA Programmes at the Cambridge Judge Business School. Yassar Joined the Competitiveness Institute at Harvard in 2017 with a focus on strategic competitiveness for firms and nations. Yassar’s research interests and publications are on the areas of Strategy of Competitiveness, Clusters, Monetary and Financial Economics, and Strategic Finance.
