Kylie Stewart

Kylie Stewart

Digital Currencies Senior Manager, Reserve Bank of Australia

Kylie Stewart has more than 20 years’ experience in public policy and is currently a Senior Manager at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where she leads the RBA’s research into digital currencies. She oversees the RBA’s major experimental research initiative, Project Acacia, which is exploring the role of digital money in wholesale tokenised asset markets. This work is being undertaken in partnership with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre.

Kylie’s previous roles at the RBA include serving as Senior Manager of Clearing and Settlement Supervision and Senior Manager responsible for business policy for the RBA’s settlement infrastructure. She has also worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the United States, where she played a key role in the initiation of US faster payments.