Jo Ann Barefoot is a fintech and regtech policy leader who co-founded the Alliance for Innovative Regulation and previously served as the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Comptroller of the Currency. Jo Ann Barefoot's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #83,777 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Jo Ann Barefoot co-founded the Alliance for Innovative Regulation, a nonprofit launched to promote technology-enabled modernization of financial regulation, and serves as its CEO. She also co-founded Hummingbird RegTech and leads Barefoot Innovation Group as CEO. She hosts the Barefoot Innovation Podcast, through which she has addressed topics spanning crypto regulation, blockchain, stablecoins, tokenization, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs, Web3, and the metaverse.
Jo Ann Barefoot joined the National Cryptocurrency Association's inaugural Advisory Board in 2025 to support crypto education, public engagement, and policy positioning. She also authored an AIR-hosted board-risk report examining cryptocurrency, blockchain, smart contracts, central-bank digital currencies, and related regulatory risks. She is a Senior Fellow Emerita at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government.
Jo Ann Barefoot previously served as a staff member on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, as Deputy Comptroller of the Currency at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and as a partner at KPMG. She formerly served as Co-Chairman of Treliant Risk Advisors and was previously Chair of FinRegLab. Jo Ann Barefoot's account has published 3,946 posts and has been mentioned by 63 accounts a total of 354 times.
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