Maurice Ewing

Maurice is a global management consultant, former banking executive and experienced, public company board member that has worked in over 60 countries. He has been an advisor and consultant to boards and executive teams with numerous, major banks, investment banks, central banks and investment funds, including notables such as Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, ING, HSBC, State Street, Sberbank, Bank of China, Construction Bank of China and The Monetary Authority of Singapore. He has also worked as an expert advisor and senior advisor for major consultancies, such as McKinsey, BCG, PwC and KPMG. Owing to his expertise in the underwriting of digital products, Maurice was previously the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and executive board member of the bank which invented “mobile money,” and ultimately designed and executed the world’s first mobile lending product suite. He holds a PhD and MA in economics from Princeton, an MA certification from MIT and a double BA in mathematics and economics from Northwestern. Maurice is a former student of Nobel Prize winners John Nash and Daniel Kahneman and former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. In addition to his risk management related work, he currently employs cognitive science in advising startup integration at Fortune 100 companies. A widely sought after public speaker and columnist, Maurice lectures in the executive programme at Churchill College, Cambridge and has published numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine and Business Insider.