Speaker profile: Ruth Wandhofer

After over a decade with Citi, Ruth is now an independent non-executive director on the boards of the London Stock Exchange, Permanent TSB and Pendo Systems. She is also a partner at Gauss Ventures, senior adviser at KPMG’s UK banking practice and an adviser at Coinfirm. She has completed studies in Financial Economics (MA, UK), International Politics (MA, FR), an LLM in International Economic Law (UK) and a PhD in Finance (UK/NL), as well as publishing two books: ‘EU Payments Integration’ (2010) and ‘Transaction Banking and the Impact of Regulatory Change’ (2014). Ruth is also a fellow of CASS Business School City University London, a visiting professor at the London Institute of Banking and Finance, and also lectures at Queen Mary London School of Law.