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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, a senior IMF official, as the next Head of the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH). His five-year term begins 1 March 2026, and he will also join the BIS Executive Committee.
Mancini-Griffoli currently serves as Assistant Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he oversees work on payments, currencies, and financial market infrastructures. He also chairs the IMF’s coordination group on digital money and represents the Fund in global policy and standard-setting forums.
In his new role, he will lead the BIS Innovation Hub’s efforts to strengthen international collaboration among central banks on cutting-edge financial technologies—ranging from payments and digital currencies to cybersecurity, tokenisation and next-generation financial market infrastructure.
The BIS Innovation Hub operates through seven global centres—Frankfurt/Paris, Hong Kong SAR, London, Singapore, Stockholm, Switzerland and Toronto—and maintains a strategic partnership with the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Its broad project portfolio focuses on improving the resilience, safety and efficiency of the global financial system while monitoring emerging trends shaping the future of central banking.
Mancini-Griffoli joined the IMF in 2011 and has held several leadership roles spanning monetary policy, central banking operations, and financial market infrastructure oversight. Before joining the Fund, he served as a senior economist at the Swiss National Bank, worked with Goldman Sachs and Boston Consulting Group, and contributed to a Silicon Valley technology startup.
He holds a PhD in economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, an MA from the London School of Economics, and dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations from Stanford University.
He succeeds Cecilia Skingsley, who was appointed County Governor of the County Administrative Board of Stockholm earlier this year. The BIS Deputy General Manager, Andréa M. Maechler, will continue as Acting Head of the Innovation Hub until Mancini-Griffoli assumes the role in March 2026.
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