Joost van der Burgt

Senior Policy Advisor - Artificial Intelligence at De Nederlandsche Bank

Joost van der Burgt is a Senior Policy Advisor on Artificial intelligence at De Nederlandsche Bank. He also represents DNB in the Basel Committee’s Taskforce on Financial Technology and in the European Joint Committee’s Working Group on Artificial Intelligence. Before he joined DNB in August 2015, Joost worked in the Strategy and Risk analysis department at the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (AFM) for four years, where he also focused on fintech and the implications of technological innovation for the financial sector. Joost earned a BSc in Business Studies from Fontys University Eindhoven, a BA in Philosophy from Tilburg University, a MA in Political Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam, a MSc in Risk Management from VU University School of Business and Economics, and is currently pursuing a BSc in Artificial Intelligence at VU University Amsterdam.