Staci Warden is the executive director of Global Market Development at the Milken Institute, where she leads strategic initiatives on developing capital markets, innovative finance, FinTech for financial inclusion, and access to capital. She co-founded a global program to train and mentor policymakers in financial policy, now in its fourth year. Prior to the Milken, she led JPMorgan’s EMEA public-sector client franchise for six years out of London, and before that worked on the sovereign Debt Capital Markets team, based in New York. Before JPMorgan, she was a director at the Nasdaq, where she led its two markets for micro-cap companies, and at the U.S. Treasury, where she ran an international debt forgiveness program. She was the startup COO of the Center for Global Development, and an economist at the Carnegie Endowment and at the Harvard Institute for International Development. She has served as a ministerial-level advisor on capital market development, sovereign-wealth management, and poverty reduction. She chairs the Board of the Rwandan Capital Markets Authority and sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the Energy for Growth Hub.