Greg Medcraft is Co-Chair and Board Member at Global Digital Finance (GDF).
Greg Medcraft is the former Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs and was responsible for contributing guidance, strategy and support for the Directorate’s policy and standard-setting work in a number of areas including Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT); digital assets, tokenization, and securitization: and, ESG reporting. Greg was responsible for the creation of the OECD’s Blockchain Policy Forum, the preeminent global policy maker forum for blockchain policy and governments.”
Greg has extensive financial markets experience in both the private and public sectors. Medcraft began his career with accounting firm KPMG before moving to Société Générale where he became Deputy Global Head of Financial Engineering, finishing his tenure as Managing Director and Global Head of Securitisation. Greg was also CEO of the Australian Securitisation Forum and co-founded the American Securitization Forum where he was Chairman for several years.
From 2009 to 2017 Greg served first as Commissioner and then as Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and credit regulator. He was the Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Board and a member of the Financial Stability Board from 2013 to 2016. IOSCO is the leading international policy forum and global standard setter for securities regulation.
