For Jean Monnet Action Proposal
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Joerg Osterrieder is Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and a cooperation partner of ING. With over 15 years of experience spanning quantitative finance, financial data science, and digital finance transformation, he works at the intersection of academia and industry, focusing on the implementation of research results in the financial services sector.
Joerg served as Chair of European COST Action CA19130 on Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance (2020-2024), an interdisciplinary research network comprising over 400 researchers from 51 countries. Under his leadership, the Action produced substantive research outputs addressing key EU regulatory frameworks including the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The Action generated formal policy outputs directed at European institutions, contributing to evidence-based policymaking in digital finance. He remains actively engaged with the research community established through this pan-European network.
As Coordinator of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, Joerg leads a EUR 3.8 million EU-funded consortium comprising 20+ institutions from academia and industry across Europe. This four-year program trains 15+ doctoral researchers in digital finance, strengthening European research capacity at the intersection of technology and financial services.
Beyond these leadership roles, Joerg has participated in Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe projects and Erasmus+ initiatives, contributing to European research and educational mobility. He serves as an expert reviewer for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program, evaluating proposals for EU innovation funding. His research collaboration with the European Central Bank (ECB) includes joint research activities and participation in ECB-hosted conferences and workshops, providing direct engagement with European monetary policy institutions.
In his teaching activities at bachelor's and master's levels, Joerg integrates EU regulatory and policy dimensions, covering the evolving European digital finance landscape including MiCA, DORA, PSD2, the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the EU Taxonomy, and implications of the AI Act for financial services. His courses examine European financial integration and the regulatory architecture supporting the EU's digital finance strategy.
Prior to his academic career, Joerg held executive positions at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, worked as a quantitative analyst at AHL (Man Investments), and served in senior management at Credit Suisse Group. This industry background provides practical perspectives on how European financial institutions navigate regulatory compliance and technological transformation.
He is a founding associate editor of the journal Digital Finance and an editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Finance section). He has organized a series of annual research conferences on Artificial Intelligence in Finance and has led or co-led over thirty national and international research projects on quantitative, data-driven topics in collaboration with the financial industry.
Joerg brings unique complementarity through his demonstrated experience coordinating large-scale EU-funded research networks, his engagement with EU digital finance regulations and institutions, and his capacity to bridge academic research with industry implementation - all essential for strengthening the consortium's capacity to deliver impactful EU studies in digital finance.
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Joerg Osterrieder is Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and a cooperation partner of ING. He served as Chair of European COST Action CA19130 on Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance (2020-2024), leading a network of over 400 researchers from 51 countries that produced policy-relevant research on MiCA, DORA, and the EU AI Act. He currently coordinates the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, a EUR 3.8 million EU-funded program training 15+ doctoral researchers across 20+ European institutions.
Joerg has participated in Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ projects, serves as an expert reviewer for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program evaluating EU innovation funding proposals, and has collaborated with the European Central Bank on digital finance research. His teaching at bachelor's and master's levels integrates EU regulatory frameworks including MiCA, DORA, PSD2, SFDR, the EU Taxonomy, and implications of the AI Act for financial services. Previously, he held executive positions at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse Group. He brings unique complementarity to the consortium through his demonstrated experience coordinating large-scale EU research networks and bridging academic research with industry implementation in European digital finance.