Iota Kaousar Nassr is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division of the OECD, where she leads the analysis around Digital Finance for the OECD Committee on Financial Markets. Some of her recent work includes analysis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance; AI and GenAI implications for financial markets; asset tokenisation and DLT-based finance; CBDCs; DeFi and crypto-assets; open banking/ open finance; and country studies of national FinTech ecosystems. Before that, she worked on issues related to financial markets, SME financing, insurance intermediation and the accession reviews of new countries to the OECD for the Committee on Financial Markets.
Before joining the OECD, Iota was an Investment Banker, working for the M&A desks of Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in London. She holds an MBA from ESSEC Grande École and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
