Kateryna Zhabska is a digital money and payments expert and former Financial Sector Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she advised central banks and financial authorities across jurisdictions on payment systems, stablecoins, CBDCs, digital assets, cross-border payments, and payment resilience. Her work spans policy and regulatory frameworks, payment infrastructure modernization, and the evolving interaction between public and private forms of money.

Prior to the IMF, Kateryna spent nine years at the National Bank of Ukraine, where she led payment innovation initiatives, including the central bank’s CBDC pilot, fast payments, the national QR-code payment standard, and regulatory reforms for payments and fintech.

She has worked extensively with policymakers, regulators, and industry participants across advanced and emerging economies and has spoken and lectured internationally, including at Cambridge Judge Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, and the University of Chicago.