Andrew Whitworth

Andrew Whitworth is Academic Director of the Masters in FinTech and Adjunct Professor in the School of Science and Technology at IE University, Madrid. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence where he runs their research project on Tokenisation and the Savings and Investment Union. He previously worked at the Bank of England and in the fintech industry and has founded the FinTech advisory firm Global Policy LTD. He holds a PhD and MA from the Johns Hopkins University SAIS in Washington DC and Bologna, Italy, and a BA/MA (Oxon) from the University of Oxford. He is the author of Regulating banks: the politics of instability (Agenda Publishing, 2021) and How to understand MiCA: a policy guide (Global Policy LTD online, 2024).