About Marie Walker

Marie Walker, applies her expertise and connections to help countries and businesses thrive in the new data economy. Since 2016, she has been connecting the best people and ideas in this field, highlighting progress, evaluating the impact of new opportunities, and exploring potential—along with how to achieve it. Marie co-founded Open Future World, a freemium platform that provided insights and analysis in open banking, serving a global community in 110 countries for over a decade. She's not just an observer but a "Top fintech influencer to follow" from 2021 to 2023 according to Belvo. What makes her even more fascinating is her previous career journey: she was a Managing Director at Hanson Wade focusing on Energy & Finance and has also held significant roles at Euromoney Institutional Investor and IIR Telecoms, demonstrating her broad understanding of the intersections between technology, finance, and telecommunication. Practically: Through her role at Raidiam, the pioneering data-sharing technology company and standards co-author behind the most successful open finance implementations, she shares valuable practitioner learnings. Academically: Marie Walker serves as Cambridge University's Honorary Expert, Module Author, and Tutor on market progress in Open Banking and Open Finance for Regulators, actively paying it forward. Obsessively: Marie Walker publishes open-conversations.org, where she shares her daily reading and podcast list featuring the most interesting news headlines and insights. This platform offers a free, independent, and searchable source of discerning information on Open Banking, Open Finance, and the broader Open 'X' data economy. Marie Walker is the type of person who sips her coffee while strolling through a 3-acre wood she planted herself. As someone whose career is based on the data economy, her serenity might seem at odds with her role in the fast-paced, ever-changing fintech world.