Organising Committee
The Organising Committee consists of dedicated individuals responsible for coordinating and managing all aspects of the workshop. They ensure smooth operations, from logistics to scheduling, to create an optimal environment for collaboration and knowledge exchange among participants.
Paolo Tasca
Chairman
Paolo Tasca
A Professor at UCL and digital economist with a specialisation in distributed systems. He’s the founder of P2PFISY and UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Dr. Tasca is a blockchain entrepreneur and has served as a special advisor on blockchain technologies for government and industry stakeholders worldwide, including the UN, and several central banks.
Vinit Shah
Local Organiser
Vinit Shah
Vinit is the General Manager of Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) Operations. A senior management professional with 20+ years of experience in leadership, strategy, and team management. Vinit has worked in global hubs including Mumbai, New York, Vienna, Manila, and Dubai and has worked on multi-billion-dollar projects including being involved in a successful listing, on the Dubai Financial Market. He has contributed to the leisure and entertainment, hospitality, and real estate industries and was key in launching VARA, the world’s first virtual asset regulator. He brings together strong strategic and commercial acumen coupled with a deep understanding of the regional markets and leads new sector development as one of his core competencies.
Scientific Committee
Composed of accomplished academics and researchers who examine and select papers submitted for inclusion in the workshop. They leverage their expertise and insights to contribute to the discussion on how the P2P revolution is reshaping both the financial sector and the financial services ecosystem.
Ben Craig
Ben Craig
Economic and policy advisor. Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He specialised in the economics of networks, banking, and finance, with an emphasis on empirical structural modeling.
Ben Shenglin
Ben Shenglin
Dean and Professor of ZIBS, Dean of Academy of Internet Finance, Zhejiang University and President of Beijing Frontier Institute of Regulation & Supervision Technology. Founder and Director of the International Monetary Institute, Renmin University of China. Founder and Chairman of Zhejiang Association of FinTech.
Carol Alexander
Carol Alexander
Professor of Finance at the University of Sussex, Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is an expert in fintech, blockchain finance and cryptocurrency markets, indexing, derivatives, volatility trading, asset pricing, risk premia, investment strategies, risk management and portfolio management.
Daniel Heller
Daniel Heller
Monetary and Regulatory Economist specialising in the regulation of Financial Market Infrastructures. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London. Daniel also isthe Head of Regulatory Affairs at Fnality International and the CFO at Bitlumens.
David Yermak
David Yermak
Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University Stern School of Business and he is the Director of the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business. He teaches joint MBA - Law School courses and PhD research courses.
John Augustine (IIT)
John Augustine (IIT)
John Augustine is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, where he co-founded the Blockchain Lab and the Cybersecurity Centre. Previously, he held roles at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre and at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Kathy Yuan
Kathy Yuan
Professor of Finance at London School of Economics And Political Science. She’s a member of FMG, CEPR and has also received Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England. Professor Yuan has also conducted policy research for central banks and financial market regulators.
Kevin Werbach
Kevin Werbach
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and former Counsel for New Technology Policy at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He served on the Obama Administration's Presidential Transition Team and founded the Supernova Group.
Tomaso Aste
Tomaso Aste
Professor of complexity science at University College London, where he is also Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies, head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group, and vice director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Computing and Analytics.
Wilko Bolt
Wilko Bolt
Senior economist Economics and Research Division of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) & Professor of Payment systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was also active as a researcher at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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