Ariadne Plaitakis

Ariadne Plaitakis leads efforts to promote evidence-based policymaking, regulatory innovation, and cross-sector research that can advance safe, equitable access to digital financial services in low- and middle-income countries.

Ariadne joined the foundation in 2022 as the team’s senior program officer for regulation. In that role, she managed grantmaking for regulatory and capacity-building efforts.

Ariadne has more than two decades of international experience in digital finance and payments regulation, open banking, financial inclusion, data protection and privacy, e-commerce, competition law, and consumer protection. Before joining the foundation, she was a senior financial sector specialist at CGAP, where she led research on open banking, interoperability, and competition in digital financial services. Earlier, she served as a senior associate at BFA Global and as general counsel and head of regulatory affairs at Mondato, a digital finance consultancy.

Ariadne is a UK-qualified solicitor. She has an M.A. in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc. in foreign service from Georgetown University. She is fluent in French, German, and Greek.