Benjamin Yablon co-founded Salt Blockchain, the world’s first crypto lending platform, in 2016. In 2017 he moved his family to Africa and later to London to create Salt’s global architecture. Benjamin serves as Special Advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) where he helps craft global regulatory policy specific to the sensible deployment of financial and other technologies including blockchain, distributed ledger, machine learning and AI. He is a regularly featured expert speaker at the OECD’s headquarters in Paris and across the world. In 2019, Benjamin was appointed by the OECD to serve on the Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB). The priority of the BEPAB is the development of a policy framework for governments and industry on viable innovation and adoption of distributed ledger technologies, similar to the Principles on Artificial Intelligence which were supported by all G20 members in June 2019. Benjamin is a subject matter expert advising all thirteen OECD directorates (including the Financial Action Task Force, FATF) on issues related to policy, deployment and utilization of blockchain and AI to prevent crime (AML/KYC) while unlocking possibility and encouraging innovation. He is a consistently featured speaker and presenter at OECD, EU, and WEF events (Paris, London, Brussels, Davos, Washington DC, Mexico City, Belgrade, Sydney, Adelaide, Singapore, Tokyo, others).