Ashley Lannquist

Project Lead, Blockchain and Digital Currency World Economic Forum

Ashley Lannquist is the Project Lead for Blockchain and Digital Currency at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. She manages projects related to CBDC, stablecoins, and blockchain for government transparency and anti-corruption. Ashley is the lead author of the World Economic Forum’s 2020 “CBDC Policy-Maker Toolkit” and a co-manager of the Digital Currency Governance Consortium. Prior to working in blockchain technology, she worked in fixed income investment management for BNY Mellon and elsewhere. Ashley has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where she was a Finance Fellow, Co-Founder and Co-President of the Haas FinTech Club, and started UC Berkeley’s blockchain executive education program. She has a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Economics and European Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).