Andres Lehtmets

Andres Lehtmets

The architect of the EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy (EU-SDFA), a training program that has equipped over 1,500 financial supervisors across the EU to manage the risks and opportunities presented by advanced technologies in the financial sector.

Currently, Andres is the founder of InsurTech4Good.com, a consultancy specializing in regulatory strategy and advice, thought leadership, research on innovation and technology, and policy advisory services for insurers, InsurTechs, and regulators worldwide.

Before founding InsurTech4Good, Andres worked at the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) as rapporteur for the InsurTech Task Force, where he led EIOPA’s work on digitalization. His focus areas included Open Insurance (notably preparatory work for the FiDA proposal), Artificial Intelligence (including the interaction between the EU AI Act and sectoral insurance regulation), new business models, and the platform economy. He also participated in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Financial Data Spaces, contributing to preparatory work for the FiDA proposal.

 

Additionally, Andres served as a member of the FinTech Forum and co-led the Open Insurance Working Group at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).

 

Prior to his tenure at EIOPA, Andres worked in the Insurance Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Estonia, where he developed insurance and pension fund policies with a focus on data protection and financial innovation. During Estonia’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2017, he was a member of the Working Party on Insurance (PEPP).

 

Andres holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from Tallinn University of Technology (cum laude) and a Master’s degree in Law and Information Society from the University of Turku. He has published academic papers on financial innovation in peer-reviewed journals and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Andres about his proffesional’s achievements:

“If I look back on my life as an EU financial innovation regulator, one of the achievements I am probably most proud of is the EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy (EU-SDFA) and its success.

 

I was the author of this concept and the architect of this training program that has equipped over 1,500 financial supervisors across the EU to manage the risks and opportunities presented by advanced technologies in the financial sector.

 

It is not often in the public sector that you have a vision that turns into reality exactly as you imagined. But that was the case with the Academy.“

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