Michael Jefferson

Michael Jefferson

Head of Financial Services Public Policy Africa, Middle East and UK, AWS, Amazon Web Services

Michael Jefferson is Head of Financial Services Public Policy for Africa, Middle East, Switzerland and UK at AWS. Michael leads on policy and engagement for issues relating to adoption and use of cloud across the finance sector, with a focus on developments relating to operational resilience and AI. Before joining AWS, he led on capital markets policy at the Investment Association and prior to that at UK Finance, representing the UK-based financial services industry. He was head of Public Policy EMEA at Nomura and started his career as a UK civil servant covering international trade and business.