Dr Salampasis is an award-winning and globally-recognized thought leader, educator, researcher, and sought-after keynote speaker, passionate about innovation and business strategy, global affairs and geopolitics, digital economy (FinTech), sustainability, and emerging technologies nexus. Dr Salampasis is the FinTech Capability Lead and Senior Lecturer of Emerging Technologies and FinTech at the Swinburne School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship. Dr Salampasis is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland, and Academic Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute. Dr Salampasis is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) Fellow, Digital Economist Executive Fellow (2024-2025), DEC Institute Research Fellow, member of the CPA Australia Digital Transformation Centre of Excellence, member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council and member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel.  Dr Salampasis is regularly involved in advisory work with leading private, public, and government stakeholders of the Australian and international business ecosystem. Dr Salampasis has a strong media presence in Australia and overseas, excellent communication and presentation skills with strong thought leadership experience presenting at large conferences. Dr Salampasis is regularly providing forward-thinking insights, points of view and informative contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice, furnishing strategic guidance and shaping business demand by synthesizing analysis, trends and insights from research across various innovation and emerging technology domains. Dr Salampasis is a trusted partner to CEOs, C-Level Executives and Board of Directors of leading corporations, start-ups and government officials providing expertise in an advisory capacity by harnessing the power of emerging technologies to identify solutions that lead global change, governance and impact. Dr Salampasis has been playing an instrumental role in shaping Australia’s FinTech innovation policy and advocacy agenda by participating in working groups, providing expert strategic advice, critical policy analysis, and submitting research-grounded responses to policy consultations. Dr Salampasis has been actively supporting Australian and international ecosystem stakeholders by identify synergistic opportunities, incubating new strategic opportunities, and curating conversations of policymaking, ESG and regulatory implications and direct impact on business models and organizational transformations. Dr Salampasis has received international recognition for his global perspective, creative research and thought leadership approach for thinking about innovation, entrepreneurial mindset and the evolution of the emerging and financial technologies landscape, together with, his novel practice-infused curriculum innovation in terms of designing and contextualizing a transformational, industry-relevant and career pathing learning and development experience across multiple modes and sets of delivery.