About our Judges

Leon is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DMA Global, the specialist international development company that he founded in 2007. He is a seasoned expert and business leader in the payments and international development fields with a particular expertise in migrant remittances. He has over 30 years hands-on experience.

DMAG’s work covers anything and everything on remittances, including strategic advice, market studies, product development, consumer, operator, and regulator research.

Leon was Managing Director of the International Association of Money Transfer Networks, where he interacted with numerous regulators and stakeholders to represent the industry. He was a member of the UK Government’s Remittances Task Force, between 2005 and 2010. He is an observer to the G20 Consultative Committee of the Private-Public Sector Partnership on Remittances. Leon has spoken at, and chaired, numerous international conferences on remittances including at the World Bank, the United Nations and the G8.

Prior to establishing DMAG he was intrinsically involved with two successful start-up remittance businesses. Leon is an economist by training and is currently based in France.