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Audrey Metzger is Director of Innovation and Financial Markets Infrastructures at Banque de France, a position she has held since March 2025. In this role, she has spoken on the advancement of financial infrastructure with CBDCs, addressing themes of resilience and interoperability, including at a workshop focused on CBDC development powered by Giesecke + Devrient.

Metzger joined Banque de France in 2003 and has built her career entirely within the institution across a sequence of progressively senior roles. She worked for over eight years in the oversight of financial markets infrastructures, first as Deputy Head of the Financial Markets Infrastructures Oversight Service from October 2010 to March 2016, then as Head of the Financial Markets Infrastructures Studies Service from March 2016 to July 2018. She subsequently served as Deputy Director of Strategy from July 2018 to July 2022, before being appointed Director of Strategy, a position she held from July 2022 until her current appointment in March 2025. Early in her career at Banque de France she held positions in financial markets law and monetary policy implementation. She holds a degree from EDHEC business school and a master's degree in civil law from Paris Descartes University.

Khai Uy Pham is an advisor specializing in cross-border digital currency and payments, leveraging expertise in fintech to enhance global financial transactions and digital payment solutions.

Marie-Aline Vives is Head of Division – New Technologies and Innovation for Financial Market Infrastructures at Banque de France, a position she has held since June 2024. Her division focuses on new technologies and innovation as applied to financial market infrastructures, though specific initiatives or products she leads in this capacity are not detailed in available sources. She has contributed publicly to policy discussions on financial infrastructure, including a published piece on the role of SWIFT in the context of sanctions imposed on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.

Vives has been at Banque de France since March 2018. Prior to her current role, she served as Deputy Head of the Market Infrastructures and Payment Systems Oversight Division from September 2021 to August 2024, and before that as Senior Expert in the Oversight of Financial Market Infrastructures from March 2018 to September 2021. Earlier in her career, she worked in banking supervision at the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) from February 2014 to March 2018, and prior to that in project finance at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, where she worked on credit risk analysis and structuring financing bids for public sector projects. She holds a degree from Sciences Po Paris and describes her areas of expertise as economics, finance, and European institutions.