Teuta Bakalli (FCCA), a finance industry leader with over 20 years of experience the City of London  in regulated financial markets including fintech, cleantech, asset management, insurance and investment banking. Teuta also joined the ACCA’s Global Sustainability Forum and has taken up residence in the digital economy hotspot of Malta where she founded Cleantech360, a company which offers business strategy and thinktank for the cleantech industry. As part of her involvement in this sector Teuta has worked with numerous renewables and sustainability projects including those which leverage blockchain technology. Teuta was chief financial officer at the payment processing giant WorldPay, eCommerce and Pepper Europe, a role in which she was responsible for leading financial control, IT, HR, legal, project management and risk & compliance across all European operations. Her able stewardship of the company allowed the closure of merger and acquisition deals in Ireland, Spain and the UK. Her work history includes roles at such luminaries as Schroders, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Barclays Capital, before she was headhunted to join Willis as FD and acting COO. She was also FD of Vanguard Europe, part of the $11 trillion investment group.