Staci Warden is a Senior Advisor with International Capital Strategies.  She sits on the boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the Algorand Foundation (a major layer-one blockchain protocol); she sits on the advisory board of the Financial Technology Association, FinTech’s most prominent U.S. trade association. 

For eight years, Warden ran the Global Market Development Practice at the Milken Institute, where she led or oversaw initiatives on strengthening capital markets, innovative finance of the SDGs, and crypto-blockchain/FinTech. Prior to Milken, Warden ran J.P. Morgan’s public sector practice for EMEA out of London for six years, and worked in sovereign DCM in New York before that. Before J.P. Morgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies. Her work in the public and non-profit sectors include work at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. 

Warden has worked or done business in over 50 countries and has advised, spoken and written on issues of sovereign-wealth management, capital-market development, and FinTech and crypto/blockchain for financial inclusion.  She chairs the Board of the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, a cabinet appointed position, and serves on several high-profile advisory committees, including the advisory committees of United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee (STOA).