Lavan Thasarathakumar

Lavan is the Government and Regulatory Affairs Director – EMEA at GBBC Digital Finance. He is a Director at Thasa Consulting, an emerging technology advisory firm specializing in crypto assets and blockchain, and is a Crypto Policy Consultant for Hogan Lovells. Lavan was formerly an Advisor at the European Parliament and advised on a number of files including FinTech, Virtual Currencies, and Distributed Ledger Technologies. He was also the rapporteur on the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation and the Comprehensive European Industrial Policy on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Lavan helped establish the European Parliament All-Party Innovation group to promote discussions on matters concerning emerging technology and what policy responses the Parliament should be promoting. Lavan chairs GDF’s working group on MiCA as well as the Private Market Digitization Steering Group. He also co-authored the Age of Public Digital Currency Report.