Prof. Thomas Puschmann

Thomas Puschmann is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Center for Sustainable Digital Finance at Stanford University in partnership with the University of Zurich and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST).

In addition, he is a Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, Founder of the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich, Co-Founder of the Swiss Green FinTech Network, Co-Founder of the Association Swiss FinTech Innovations, Co-Founder of Extreme Tech Challenge Switzerland and Member of the Swiss Innovation Council Innosuisse.

Thomas serves as an advisor for strategic national and international initiatives and is an advisory board member of various institutions to foster innovation and develop innovation and start-up ecosystems. Additionally, he is the Editor in Chief for the Springer book series on Financial Innovation and Technology and serves on the Editorial Board of various academic journals. Thomas was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Before his current position he was heading a research center on digital finance at the University of St. Gallen. Prior to this, Thomas spent five years in consulting and software development, where he was a member of the executive board at ESPRiT Consulting (now Q_Perior) and The Information Management Group.