Mai Santamaria
Finance, Risk and Audit Committee Chair, YMCA Dublin
Mai Santamaria is listed as Finance, Risk and Audit Committee Chair, YMCA Dublin. Mai spoke at Money20/20 Europe 2021 in September 2021 (speaker, “How should CBDCs be designed and what function should they perform to become a trusted medium for payments?”).
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About
Mai worked in banking and insurance in the private sector for more than 20 years before joining the Ministry in 2017. She is a native of Barcelona and a Fellow Chartered Accountant in Ireland. In 2018, she co-authored the Department's Virtual Currencies and Blockchain discussion paper and lead the Department's Working Group on blockchain. She was a member of the BlockchainIreland Advisory board for 2 years (2018-2020). She organised the first government wide & public services blockchain hackathon in 2019. She leads the Market in Crypto Assets Regulations proposals with the EU Commission. She is also a Bureau member of the OECD's Committee in Financial Markets and member of its Ad-Hoc Expert Group in Digital Finance. In 2021, she participated in WEF's Digital Currency Consortium researching digital currencies and cross-aid disbursements.