Kieran Arasaratnam is a distinguished figure in the financial and technology industries. He is a former banker turned Professor of Practice at Imperial College Business School, where he specializes in emerging technologies, particularly blockchain. Arasaratnam's academic career led him to obtain his PhD in Signal Processing from Imperial College London and to partake in an Executive Education program at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before becoming a professor, Arasaratnam worked for top financial institutions such as HSBC, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays Capital, where he held global positions, particularly in Foreign Exchange (FX) and Macro Institutional Structuring. Arasaratnam is also the proud founder and CEO of Uinspire Global Leadership and Uinspire Giving, where he promotes leadership and charitable giving, respectively.