Sean de Montfort
Sean de Montfort joined CGAP in October 2018 as a financial sector analyst, on secondment from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). His work at CGAP cuts across the policy and business models pillars with a particular focus on regulatory innovation facilitators and digital banking business models. At the FCA, Sean held roles closely related to innovation, most recently as assistant private secretary to Christopher Woolard, executive director of Strategy and Competition. Prior to that, Sean worked as a firm lead within the FCA’s regulatory sandbox team. Sean holds a B.A. in human, social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge.