As Chief Innovation Officer at the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), Patrick de Neef is responsible for the digital transformation of DNB’s supervisory divisions. This transformation requires innovation in terms of resources, attitudes and mindsets. From new data architecture to the straight through processing of all supervisory processes and, ultimately, the digital competences needed to derive maximum benefit from them. Patrick is also responsible for DNB’s digital platform that enables cooperation with the sector: the MyDNB platform and the dialogue with the sector on Suptech. DNB's overall digital innovation agenda, which includes central bank tasks and resolution, is driven by the DNB Digital Agenda Board, which Patrick was involved with since its set-up and chaired for 2 years.

After starting his career at one of the major Dutch banks, Patrick made the switch to DNB in 2007, dealing in particular with banking supervision and crisis management and later on Liquidity risk policy. Patrick has chaired numerous working groups in the context of improving supervision and regulation within the European banking supervision under the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).