Dr Christopher Sier is the Fintech Envoy for England for the UK HM Treasury and chairman of Fintech North, the innovation community for the North of England.
He also chaired the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s panel investigating costs, fees and transparency in institutional investment, wrote the LGPS cost transparency standard and has worked with the World Bank, EIOPA, the Committee on Workers Capital and institutional investors around the world on the same subject.
Combining these two worlds he is chief executive officer and co-founder of ClearGlass, a technology platform that sits between asset managers and pension funds and operates a near-zero price model for the collection and analysis of pension fund cost data.
In addition, Chris is Visiting Professor of Financial Technology at the University of Leeds.