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Tram Anh Nguyen
Co-Founder, CFTE & Chairwoman, Global Women in AI
CFTE (Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship)
Tram Anh Nguyen is a leading voice on building human capability at scale for governments, institutions and organisations in the age of AI.
She is Co-Founder of CFTE (Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship), a global capability platform focused on AI, digital finance and workforce transformation, which has reached more than 200,000 participants across 130 countries.
Through CFTE, Tram Anh works with governments, central banks, public institutions and senior leaders on one of the defining challenges of the AI economy: how to build the human capabilities required to respond to technological change at scale. Her work combines institutional trust, global connectivity and practical execution, helping organisations translate AI transformation into capability programmes, learning ecosystems and future-ready talent strategies.
She led the Future Skills Forum, bringing together leaders across industry, government and education to address the skills and leadership required for a rapidly changing economy. She is also Chairwoman of Global Women in AI, a global platform focused on advancing women’s leadership, representation and influence across the artificial intelligence ecosystem.
Tram Anh is an Entrepreneurship Expert at Oxford Saïd Business School and has been recognised among the UK Top 50 Tech Influencers.
Before founding CFTE, she spent nearly two decades in financial services, with roles at Standard Chartered in New York, Dresdner Kleinwort and UBS Wealth Management in London.
Her work today focuses on building the human capabilities, leadership and resilience that enable institutions and economies to turn AI adoption into lasting economic and social progress.
Speaking at the summit
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9:40–9:55amMon 16 NovForum StageOpenModerator
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Fireside Chat - Ambition Beyond One Country: Sovereignty and the Global South
About this session
Many of the Global South's most important payment innovations were built first for domestic needs. The next challenge is to connect them without recreating the dependencies they were designed to reduce. Southeast Asia has developed cross-border links between national payment systems. Africa is building regional settlement infrastructure. Francophone markets span multiple regions and monetary arrangements, while countries across Asia and Africa are exploring new forms of direct financial connectivity. The address examines a central proposition: sovereignty and connection do not have to be opposites. The strongest basis for regional cooperation may be national systems capable enough to choose how, where and with whom they interoperate. How can these systems move from bilateral links toward durable corridors between emerging markets?
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1:30–3:00pmMon 16 NovRoundtableOpenModerator
Chamkar - The Proving Ground
Who Builds the Future? Talent and Capability for the Next Financial System
About this session
Financial sovereignty depends on more than owning infrastructure. Countries also need people capable of designing, operating, regulating and securing it. Across emerging markets, technical specialists often move toward larger financial and technology hubs, while regulators compete with private firms for expertise in fields that are changing rapidly. The challenge becomes even greater when systems begin connecting across jurisdictions and require professionals who understand multiple regulatory, technical and market environments. The roundtable asks which capabilities a country cannot afford to outsource permanently, how regulators and financial institutions can retain scarce technical talent, and which partnerships between central banks, universities and industry have the potential to build that capability at scale.
