Charles Goldfinger is a Brussels-based international consultant in corporate strategy and economic policy, with particular expertise in financial services, information technology and electronic commerce.

Since 2004, he has been involved in a pioneering high-technology venture in Poland

He has been involved in the introduction of Internet-based strategies in existing large businesses as well as in several new e-finance and e-commerce ventures in Europe and in the United States.

Between 1997 and 2002, Mr. Goldfinger advised European Commission on the financial aspects of electronic commerce, with particular emphasis on e-finance and smart-card based financial applications and chaired the Financial Internet Working Group, FIWG

Between July 1988 and January 1995, Charles Goldfinger advised the Belgian Ministry of Finance, Philippe Maystadt, on the reform of the securities markets.

Between March 1992 and November 1993, Mr. Goldfinger advised The Chief Executive of Belgacom, Belgium telecommunication operator, on key issues such as mobile telephony, value-added networks, cross-border alliances and privatization posture.

From May 1990 to May 1992, Charles Goldfinger was European Director of Broadview Associates, a well-known international merger and acquisition firm in Information Technology. He participated in several international divestiture and purchase transactions for computer services, software and telecommunication firms

From September 1983 to April 1987, Charles Goldfinger was Product Planning Director for SWIFT, the leading international interbank funds transfer network.

From 1975 to 1980, Charles Goldfinger worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C, with responsibility for projects in Latin America and East Africa.

He regularly contributes articles on international economy and finance to leading French and English speaking newspapers and magazines.  Mr. Goldfinger has published three books:

• On the future of work - Travail et hors-travail: vers une société fluide, (Editions Odile Jacob, September 1998)
• On the Intangible Economy - L’utile et le futile, l’économie de l’immatériel, (Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, September 1994)
• On international finance - La géofinance (Seuil, Paris, September 1986).

Mr. Goldfinger has given numerous lectures and seminars for organisations such as OECD, World Economic Forum at Davos, World Bank, Eurostat, Management Center Europe, IBM Education Centre at La Hulpe and Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris.

A French national, he has a degree in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Born in 1946, Charles Goldfinger is married, with one child.

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