Jannah Patchay is an Executive Director and Policy Lead for the Digital Pound Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation launched in 2021 to advocate for the introduction of a well-designed digital Pound in both publicly and privately issued forms, and for an effective, diverse and competitive ecosystem for new forms of digital money in the UK and globally. Jannah is also the founder of Markets Evolution, a consultancy specialising in financial markets innovation and regulatory strategy.  Over the years she has provided advisory, consulting, and delivery services to a wide cross-section of market participants including exchanges, tier-1 investment banks, brokers, funds, and start-up businesses.  Her passion lies in building the financial markets of the future, harnessing frontier technologies to create new and innovative financial services and products that can promote wider social and environmental benefit, and greater access to financial services