Judith Crawford

Judith has over 20 years of experience in EU and national financial services regulation, and over 10 years dedicated to payments and e-money policy. As Director of Policy and Operations at the Electronic Money Association, Judith engages on a continuous basis with the EMA’s 100 or so members, building consensus amongst a diverse group of payment service providers to develop policy positions that will benefit the wider payments and e-money industry. The EMA’s members range from large e-commerce companies to the smallest start-ups, and are all all authorised e-money, payment or credit institutions established in the UK or EU. She participates in a number of industry and regulator-led EU and national working groups and steering groups focused on payments systems, fraud, payment scheme management, Payments strategy, transparency of payments, including the European Commission Payment Systems Market Expert Group, and the EPC SEPA Scheme Payment Management Board. Prior to her current role, she worked for6 years in the European Parliament on the ECON committeee, and then several years’ experience representing the insurance industry at UK and EU level.