Monica Singer

Monica was the first CEO of South Africa’s Central Securities Depository (CSD), Strate, and has served on numerous boards and in advisory positions including as the vice-president of the African Middle East Regional Association of CSDs (AMEDA), as a member of the World Forum of CSDs (WFC) and Strate Charity Shares, and chaired Afrika Tikkun Investment Trust for ten years. She is currently South Africa Lead for Consensys, which is assembling the tools needed to build and scale a world where distributed applications enable a new class of frictionless, global commerce with inclusion for all. She is one of the patrons of the Corporate Governance Framework (CGF) Research Institute in South Africa, a board member of the Global Legal Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Professor of Practice in the School of Accounting at the University of Johannesburg. She represents Consensys on the Accounting Blockchain Coalition (ABC) board. ABC is defining market practices in accounting, auditing and tax for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies, including blockchain.

She has been recognised over the last 20 years with many awards, the most notable being as the first winner of the Conscious Company Award in 2017.

She is a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee and a member of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee.