Aleksandra Asscheman is a Senior Lecturer in International and European Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where she designs and teaches courses in business law, banking and financial regulation. As a researcher with the Hague Centre of Expertise in Digital Operations and Finance (New Finance group), she focuses on regulatory frameworks for digital assets and payments. Within this role, she is currently developing The Future of Open Payments course, an interdisciplinary pilot project supported by the Interledger Foundation’s NextGen Grant, which aims to equip law and finance students with the knowledge and skills needed to use open payment technologies to solve financial inclusion challenges. Passionate about inclusion and impact, Aleksandra also advises on gender-smart investing initiatives. Before joining academia, she spent over a decade as a legal practitioner in development finance, working on credit and investment transactions across Eastern Europe, India, and South-East Asia.