WEN Wu David

Dr. David Wen is a professor of ZIBS and the executive director at the Fintech Security International Research Center. His current work is to build future digital financial infrastructure using “Digital Value”, a term he coined to represent all types of digital assets in the digital economy.
After obtaining his Ph.D from Oxford University, he has worked at NTT Communication Science Laboratory in Japan, before appointed the youngest Associate Professor in Tokyo Science University. While visiting Stanford University as a visiting professor, he worked on Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC) program and later joined HID as chief security architect oversaw the entire Federal Identity Management products and deployment.
He later took up position of Chief Scientist at Dell and SAIC, both Fortune 500 companies, managing the deployment of US Federal Government’s Personal Identification and Verification (PIV) program at NASA, DHS, and FDA etc. In September 2011, he co-founded eCurrency Mint Ltd, the first silicon valley company to provide Central Bank Digital Currency solution globally. He helped coin the term Digital Fiat Currency working as the US expert to ISO Technical Committee 68 (SC 2) for digital currency security, and was elected chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s Focus Group on Digital Fiat Currency, working with central banks and telecom regulators from People’s Bank of China as well as over 40 Central Banks around the world.
He co-authored the first “Digital Legal Currency” book published by People’s Finance Publisher and is used as textbook for graduate studies. He is currently working with a few Central Banks in developing countries using “World Change” as the new digital financial infrastructure in practice.