Ryan Louvar
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Ryan Louvar has over 25 years of legal and business experience with deep expertise in ETFs, digital assets, tokenization, and financial innovation. He currently serves as Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Assets at WisdomTree, where he oversees legal, risk, and compliance functions and helps drive the firm’s leadership in tokenized real-world assets through its WisdomTree Prime® mobile app and WisdomTree Connect™ web platform. Mr. Louvar also leads WisdomTree’s regulatory and legislative policy advocacy, supporting its mission to innovate within financial services and asset management.
Previously, he served as General Counsel of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc., and as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of the WisdomTree Trust (2013–2021). Prior to joining WisdomTree, he was Vice President and Senior Managing Counsel at State Street (2005–2013), where he served as Chief Legal Officer, Secretary, AML Officer, and Code of Ethics Compliance Officer for the SPDR family of ETFs.
A frequent speaker on digital assets, tokenization, ETFs, and related legal and policy considerations, Mr. Louvar holds an LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University, a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, and a B.S. in Finance, cum laude, from the University of Colorado. He has also completed executive coursework in blockchain and digital currency at MIT Sloan and the University of Cape Town.
