The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli as the next Head of its Innovation Hub.

He will take up the role on 1 March 2026 for a five-year term, succeeding Cecilia Skingsley, who stepped down after being appointed County Governor of Stockholm.

Mancini-Griffoli is currently Assistant Director in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he oversees payments, currencies and financial market infrastructures and chairs the fund’s coordination group on digital money.

He joined the IMF in 2011 after serving as a senior economist at the Swiss National Bank advising its board on monetary policy, and previously held roles at Goldman Sachs, the Boston Consulting Group and a Silicon Valley startup.

In his new position, he will join the BIS Executive Committee and lead the hub’s work on technology and central banking.

He will also support the BIS mandate as part of its leadership team.

He will guide collaboration with central banks across the Hub’s centres in Frankfurt and Paris, Hong Kong SAR, London, Singapore, Stockholm, Switzerland and Toronto, as well as its strategic partnership with the Federal Reserve System.

The BIS Innovation Hub develops and evaluates emerging technologies with central bank partners, complements the BIS research efforts and connects a network of more than 200 central bank experts.

Andréa M Maechler, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, will remain Acting Head until Mancini-Griffoli joins next March.

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