Chea Serey

Serey Chea is an Assistant Governor at the National Bank of Cambodia. She is a vocal proponent for greater use of the local currency to promote the country's greater independence on economic and monetary policy. Under her leadership, innovative policy instruments were introduced to develop the interbank markets and promote the use of local currency. She is a member of different policy-driven committees within the bank and nationally. She is chairwoman of the Credit Bureau Cambodia Ltd., the first and only privately-run credit sharing system in Cambodia. Under her leadership, retail payment infrastructure has been modernized with the introduction of a national shared switch for card transactions and FAST payment system, a real-time fund transfer from a bank account to another bank account in Cambodia. As a chairwoman of the Clearing House Operation Committee, she has been leading the Bakong Project, an initiative of the National Bank of Cambodia in exploring and introducing a new generation of payment systems using Blockchain technology. She is also a member of the Southeast Asia Advisory Council of Women World Banking and a member of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2019, a forum of Young Global Leaders created by the World Economic Forum. She is a strong proponent for women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion and served as Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI’s) high-level Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion Committee (GWFIC). Serey is a senior fellow of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree with the University of Adelaide (Australia) focusing on balancing financial inclusion and financial stability.

Professional affiliations

National Bank of Cambodia