Dr Jane Thomason

About

We are not digitising society. We are programming it. Rules, incentives, identity, and coordination are being embedded directly into infrastructure. This is the Codified Society, and it is already reshaping how financial systems operate, how governance works, and how institutions manage risk. My focus is practical: what does it mean for your institution when money becomes programmable, when AI agents make decisions inside regulated systems, and when compliance is embedded in code rather than enforced after the fact? The same convergence is now restructuring health systems. AI is moving from diagnostic tool to continuous care architecture, digital biology is generating data at a scale that existing regulatory frameworks cannot process, and the governance question is no longer whether to adopt these systems but who controls them and on whose terms. Over 30 years I have worked at the intersection of financial systems, public policy, and digital infrastructure across Pacific, Asia, Gulf, and African jurisdictions. I currently serve as Non-Executive Director of Kina Bank (ASX-listed), where I chair the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. I have advised central banks, Commonwealth fin

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