# Editor, OpenID for Verifiable Credentials

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/kristina-yasuda/
Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Kristina Yasuda edits OpenID for Verifiable Presentations and OpenID for Verifiable Credential Issuance, the two protocols that move credentials between issuers, wallets, and verifiers. She works at SPRIND, the German federal agency running the country's digital identity wallet programme, and contributes to the high-assurance interoperability profiles that national schemes build against.

Profile built from public OpenID Foundation and agency records.

## Where their work shows up

[Verifiable credentials](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/verifiable-credentials/) define what a credential is. [OpenID4VC](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/openid4vc/) defines how it gets from a government issuer into a wallet and then into a verifier's hands, which is the part that has to work identically across member states, vendors, and devices for any of it to matter. Her editing work sits directly under the [EUDI wallet](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/eidas-2-eudi-wallet/) and the [mobile driving licence](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/iso-18013-5-mdl/) deployments. See [digital IDs by country](https://startwithidentity.com/digital-ids/) for where these protocols are landing.