Expert resume of Ijeoma Okoli

Ijeoma Okoli is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University School of Law and a director of The Digital Economy Initiative. She also provides strategic advice to companies in the digital assets and AI sectors on capital raisings, product offerings, regulation and restructurings.

Ijeoma is a finance and regulatory lawyer with extensive experience advising financial services firms and corporate clients globally on capital raisings and general finance and regulatory matters.

Ijeoma is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University School of Law. Ijeoma is a co-founder of The Digital Economy Initiative, an independent think-tank focused on US and UK digital assets policy. She is also a strategic advisory consultant to companies and investors in the digital assets and artificial intelligence sectors, advising companies on capital raisings, product offerings, restructurings, regulatory gray areas and strategy. She is also a Board member of the London Museum and chairs its Audit and Risk Committee. She previously was Digital Currency Risk Management Lead and an Executive Director at JPMorgan where she co-designed the financial services group’s first-ever global digital currency risk management and governance framework.  She also sat on a select committee which reviewed new digital assets related business proposals for the financial services group. She previously advised JPMorgan’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Chief Investment Office, Corporate Treasury, Investment Bank and Asset Management divisions on various matters including investments, capital raisings, restructuring funding lines and regulatory and compliance matters, and was a Board member of Aldermanbury Investments Limited, a JPMorgan subsidiary.

Ijeoma was a subject matter expert invited by the UK Financial Conduct Authority to its first ever Crypto Sprint to propose approaches to digital assets regulation, and she has provided input to UK and US authorities on legal and regulatory proposals relating to various products and activities in the digital assets ecosystem.

Ijeoma was named Investment Woman of the Year at the 2020 Woman in Investment Awards, won the Outstanding Contribution of the Year Award at the 2021 Women in Finance Awards and was appointed to the President’s Council of Cornell Women in 2024.

Ijeoma holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Cornell University.