Rania Rahardja

Rania Rahardja is a Singapore-based finance executive and former national fencer who, as of November 2026, is Senior Director for Asia-Pacific at Ondo Finance. Her career has included investment analysis and strategy work at Barclays, while her sports-related work has included an International Olympic Committee (IOC) initiative to develop wheelchair fencing in Singapore.^[1]​^[2]​

Education & Career

Rahardja studied at Hwa Chong Junior College, where she completed Singapore-Cambridge A Levels, attended Stanford University’s Summer Session, and earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from University College London. ^[3]​^[1]​

Her early professional roles included events manager at the International Institute for Strategic Studies from May to June 2012 and a news internship at CNBC from February to March 2013. She later worked at Barclaycard and in Barclays roles involving Wealth, Strategy Development, and machine-learning-based customer outreach and targeting.^[3]​

Rahardja joined Aon as an investment analyst in August 2017 and remained there until July 2018. In August 2018, she began working in Barclays’ Ventures team, where she was described as a United Kingdom-based Ventures Analyst and later as an Assistant Vice President. Her work included competitive analysis and due diligence on companies in high-growth sectors, as well as identifying potential strategic partners for investment, acquisition, or partnership.^[3]​^[1]​

Barclays

At Barclays, Rahardja supported the Ventures Cloud Platform, which she described as one of two key cloud pillars in the bank’s strategy. The platform provided a secure, controlled environment for testing third-party capabilities with real data. Her responsibilities included coordinating with technology and engineering teams and supporting experiments from ideation and design through activation, closure, and governance.^[3]​

Ondo Finance

Rania Rahardja joined Ondo Finance as Director of Asia-Pacific from June 2024 to May 2026.

In June 2026, her role elevated to Senior Director of Asia-Pacific where she handles the adoption of tokenized traditional financial assets, including US Treasuries. ^{[2] [3]}

Fencing

Rahardja competed in fencing for ten years and retired in 2018. She said she had been ranked No. 1 in Singapore and No. 2 in British Fencing in 2017. She competed at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games and won a gold medal in fencing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[3]​

Her awards and honors included the Ministry of Education (Singapore) Bi-Cultural Studies Scholarship in 2008, Sports Girl of the Year in 2011, and the UCLU Sports Union Sportswoman of the Year award in 2017.^[3]​

IOC Young Leader and Inclusive Sport

Rahardja became an IOC Young Leader in January 2018. That year, she obtained CHF 5,000 in seed funding from the IOC to launch wheelchair fencing in Singapore. Working with Fencing Singapore and Singapore’s Disability Sports Council, she helped develop a four-year roadmap toward Paris 2024. The initiative came under Fencing Singapore’s management after the organization became an Inclusive Sports Federation in 2020.^[3]​

As an IOC Young Leader, Rahardja has participated in international forums promoting sport and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She spoke at the 2018 Global Social Business Summit, hosted by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, and at the 2019 Peace & Sport Forum on youth empowerment and sport.^[3]​

Other Activities

Rahardja is a member of the Royal Society of Arts in London and an One Young World Ambassador. In May 2020, she won Unite 2030’s COVID-19 Hackathon; she said she would attend Camp 2030, an inaugural youth-led innovation lab in New York, in 2021.^[3]​

On November 9, 2026, Rahardja was scheduled to take part in a morning fireside chat at the World Digital Assets Forum event in Seoul about growing adoption of tokenized traditional financial assets, including United States Treasuries.^[2]​