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Joasia E. Popowicz
Associate editor, Central Banking
Joasia E. Popowicz is the associate editor and fintech correspondent at Central Banking. She chairs the FinTech & RegTech Global Awards, and is the fintech subject specialist for the Central Banking Benchmarking Service. Previously, Joasia worked as a data journalist across Risk Quantum and Central Banking. She was a data journalism fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Enigma, a fintech in New York. The Brown Institute is a joint initiative between Stanford University and Columbia University that funds projects at the intersection of journalism and technology. Joasia graduated with an MS in investigative journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.
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