Daphnée Papiasse

Daphnée Papiasse has been Head of Public Affairs at Lise, the French regulated stock exchange dedicated to SMEs and mid-sized companies, since August 2026. She defines and leads the company’s regulatory strategy and represents Lise before regulatory and supervisory authorities (AMF, ACPR, Banque de France), French and European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, French National Assembly) and industry associations such as the Association for the Development of Digital Assets (ADAN), France Fintech and Paris Europlace. She also oversees Lise’s expert publications.

She holds a PhD in political science from the London School of Economics (European Institute), where she remains a Visiting Fellow, and her research focuses on the regulation of financial innovation in Europe. She is the author of “Falling for FinTech?” (Springer), on fintech regulation in France, and a research associate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (Judge Business School). Before joining Lise, she was Head of Public Affairs at Kulipa. She is a graduate of the Sorbonne (law) and the Institut Catholique de Paris (social sciences).

This combination of academic and operational experience has made her a specialist in European fintech and digital asset regulation, tokenisation and the regulatory framework for new market infrastructures, including the EU DLT Pilot Regime.