This Laureate Project can be seen as part of an even larger ongoing collaboration between Professor Ross P Buckley and his two long-term collaborators, who are also Partner Investigators on this Project:  Professor Douglas W Arner of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and the University of Hong Kong and Professor Dirk A Zetzsche of the University of Luxembourg. 

Over the past decade, Professors Buckley, Arner and Zetzsche have advised and worked directly with governments and regulators in 62 nations. They have also advised and worked directly with some 40 international and regional organisations, with almost all of these arrangements culminating into commissioned reports.  The tables of nations and organisations assisted follow. 

In addition, Professors Buckley, Arner and Zetzsche have indirectly assisted a wide range of other nations through long, close cooperation with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) – an alliance of central banks and financial regulators from over 80 developing countries. Their work with AFI has shaped policy approaches to digital financial ecosystems in most developing countries through a dozen reports and policy strategies. These include their seminal reports on ‘FinTech for Financial Inclusion’ (2018) (which shaped FinTech laws and regulations in most developing countries), and the ‘Inclusive Green Finance Roadmap’ (2022) launched at the COP in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Professors Buckley, Arner and Zetzsche have also indirectly assisted other nations through their work with the Arab Monetary Fund and the German Agency for International Cooperation, producing major reports, advice and trainings for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the UAE and Yemen.