Dr. Naoll Addisu Merdassa

Dr. Naoll Addisu Merdassa

National Bank of Ethiopia

Information

Position
Sr. technology advisor to H.E. the governor
Biography
20+ years’ experience in driving mission-critical engineering and architecture, with a comprehensive understanding of multiple functional areas within the financial industry and their interactions to achieve organizational objectives. Responsible for all architectural directions, decisions, and leading cross-functional teams. Design decisions based on technical expertise, experience, industry trend, and evaluative judgment centered on analysis of data in complicated or novel scenarios. Design with vision, communicate with passion, and assemble teams to turn vision into ideas, and ideas into concrete composable solutions.

Speaker on

Sovereign tech for central banks: Securing digital autonomy and resilience

Panel Digital sovereignty
06/11/2026 | 11:30 - 12:30