Marcel Beer Kremnitzer is a financial policy analyst with a background in regulation, innovation, payments, and financial market infrastructures (FMIs). He currently serves as a financial policy analyst at the OECD, seconded by the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB). Concurrently, at CGAP and the World Bank, he has provided consulting and advisory services on the interplay between competition in financial services, innovation, and financial inclusion.
Since 2015, Marcel has held various positions at the BCB, where he has contributed to the development of regulatory and knowledge frameworks concerning digital assets, cross-border payments, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and asset tokenization. He has represented the Bank in international forums, including the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI). His earlier roles at the BCB include serving as a parliamentary advisor and a conduct supervisor. In these capacities, he provided analytical support on draft legislation with potential implications for the Brazilian financial sector and led both on-site and remote inspections related to financial consumer protection.
Marcel holds graduate degrees in Economics from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a Digital Economics from Paris Dauphine University. He speaks English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.