Clarisse Awa

financial innovator, Writer, and Editor in United States

Deeply passionate about the potential of emerging technologies to positively transform the global financial and monetary system, Clarisse works at the forefront of financial innovation having spent the past years accelerating progress and providing thought leadership on digital assets at the World Economic Forum. She was recently named to the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist as a Standout 45 woman in fintech and rising star. She is focused on driving innovation in the banking, capital markets and investment space. She strives to help shape the future of finance with innovation, ethics and inclusion at the forefront.

Discover her most recent work for The Economist Group and Franklin Templeton on the future of technology in finance and capital markets:

Clarisse is a political and economic scholar with a Master's degree in International Economic Policy from Sciences Po Paris and Bachelor's degrees in Foreign Affairs and Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia.

Should you be interested in getting in touch with her, send a note to [email protected]. Cheers!