Clara
Durodié
Clara Durodié is a technology strategist specializing in the business, risks and geopolitics of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services.
Clara is internationally recognized for her expertise, advising Boards of leading financial institutions, think-tanks, governments and academia. She also mentors AI startups on governance, funding and growth strategy. She is consistently named on numerous global lists of leading women in fintech, and was the Chair of the Non-Executive Directors Board’s special committee on Best Practice for AI Adoption (UK) and a member of IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (USA).
Clara advised the World Economic Forum’s 4th Industrial Revolution Centre in San Francisco (US), the All Parliamentary Party Group for Artificial Intelligence (UK) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ special commission on Artificial Intelligence (Japan). In June 2017, Clara was also invited as a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance.
Clara is a frequent presenter at leading conferences around the globe, including SIBOS, Money 2020, Point Zero Forum, Singapore Fintech Forum, Innovate Finance Global Summit, AI World and at London Business School where she addressed an audience from leading universities around the world such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Cambridge. She has been invited as guest lecturer by leading universities like the University of Oxford’s Executive MBA. London Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Clara was also invited to teach at the inaugural Oxford Artificial Intelligence course, organised by the University of Oxford.
Clara is the author of the highly acclaimed Decoding AI in Financial Services - Business Implications for Boards and Professionals the first guidebook on AI in financial services for C-level, Boards and decision makers. The book's Japanese translation was published in Japan in 2022. In 2024, The second edition of this book was published in London.
Clara also writes Decoding AI® Briefing, a popular digital publication which examines the business, governance and geopolitics of AI in financial services. Since its inception in 2016, it remains a preeminent and objective source of information on this topic.
Her academic research interest sits at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and investment management. Prior to 2014, Clara served in leadership roles in European asset & wealth management, is a member of the National Association of Certified Directors (US), the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (UK), has a Certificate in Investment Management (UK) and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford.
Based in London, Clara works with an international base of leading companies.
Expertise:
• AI risk + AI governance
• Data + Technology ethics
• Cyber, Data + Energy Security
• Decentralised AI
• Geopolitics of Frontier Technologies
• Financial Technology
• Digital Transformation
• Corporate Innovation + Growth
• Geopolitics + Geosecurity of AI
• Digital Economy
• Science and Innovation Policy
• Investments in AI
• Startups Growth, Market Reach +Product development
• Polymath with multidisciplinary analysis + Synthesis skills
Interests:
Systems thinking, critical reasoning, decision making, neuroscience, intelligence (human and machine), collective behaviour change, well being, nutrition, fitness.
