Dr. Dinipre “Dee” Allen was recently appointed as Assistant Provost and Associate Professor for Innovation at the University of The Bahamas. She has over 25 years of experience in law, business, and higher education. She began her career as a lawyer in London, UK, then co-founded a training and development business, and later became a University Senior Lecturer in 2011.  Over a nine-year period, Dr Allen was a Senior Lecturer/Course Director in Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Gloucestershire (UoG) and continues to supervise doctoral students at UoG as an External PhD Supervisor. She was also a Fintech and Financial Innovation Senior Lecturer/Doctoral Course Director at Teesside University, UK where she led the Doctor of Business Administration programme. Dr. Allen has extensive experience in teaching business management, entrepreneurship, fintech, and business law subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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From 2020 to 2024, Dr Allen served as the Head of Capacity Building and Education/Lead in Regulation and Policy at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS). As a member of the Executive Team of the CCAF, she spearheaded the strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation of various online education programmes. This included the leadership of the innovative global online Cambridge Fintech & Regulatory Innovation (CFTRI) education programme, successfully delivered to over 2,500 financial regulators and policymakers from more than 315 institutions in 150 countries, achieving a remarkable impact during her tenure.

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Dr Allen’s expertise has earned her invitations to speak at prestigious global conferences hosted by organisations such as the FCA in the UK, Fintech Associations in Japan, the Asian Development Bank Institute in Hong Kong and Indonesia, the Securities and Insurance Commission of The Bahamas, African Fintech Network and Macro Economic and Financial Management Institute (MEFMI) in Africa. She is a Board member of the Alliance of Digital Finance and Fintech Associations. She remains an Academic Advisor/Research Affiliate to the CCAF, involved in conducting extensive EdD research on the impact of the CFTRI Programme with the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a member of Hughes Hall College. She collaborates with Caribbean, Asian, and African academic, regional development agencies and regulatory institutions to develop entrepreneurial, fintech/ insurtech, artificial intelligence, policy and regulatory innovation research and education programmes.

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Dr. Allen is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and achieved the CIPD Chartered Fellow professional status for her expertise in training and development. Dee's educational background includes an LLB and LLM from SOAS, University of London. As part of the LLM programme, she also studied Law of International Finance and International Economic Law at King's College and the London School of Economics as an inter-collegiate student at the University of London. Her PhD research focused on SME entrepreneurship, leadership and organisational behaviour using a multinational social impact FinTech as a case study.