Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski is the CIO Technology Strategy at Standard Chartered Bank. He joined the Bank in April 2017 and is based in Singapore. In this role, he is instrumental in driving the Bank’s digital and innovation agenda. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s global Industrial Sector and started his career at IBM Research & Development Laboratory Germany in 1998.

Sebastian is a mathematician and computer scientist by background, he graduated both in Mathematics (Cryptography) and Computing Science (Computational Mathematics) in 1997 and received his Doctorate Degree in Mathematics (Number Theory) from the University of Tübingen in 2001. Sebastian has published multiple books and owns several patents.