Founder & CEO
Linda Jeng is the Founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs, a regulatory, policy & tech advisory firm. She is also the Visiting Scholar on Financial Technology at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for International of Economic Law, a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, and a Bank for International Settlements Research Fellow. Previously, she was the Chief Global Regulatory Officer & General Counsel of the Crypto Council for Innovation (a leading crypto industry association), the Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer of the Centre Consortium (the Circle/Coinbase joint venture managing the stablecoin USDC and the decentralized identity standard Verite), and the Global Head of Policy at Transparent Financial Systems (a DeFi startup that developed a tokenized dollar payment solution).
Prior to these private sector roles, she was at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors where she chaired the Basel Committee’s working group on Open Banking. She spent her regulatory career working on financial stability and regulatory reform, including at the Financial Stability Board working on international standards addressing Too-Big-to-Fail, the U.S. Senate drafting the Dodd-Frank Act, and the U.S. Treasury Department on the international implementation of G20-led reforms. Linda also has worked at the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Credit Agricole in Paris. Linda has testified in front of Congress, frequently comments in print, podcast, and television, and was a Forbes contributor. She has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, a Diplôme d’études approfondies from University of Toulouse, France, and a B.A. from Duke University.