Full Name

Dr. Paolo Tasca

Job Title

Chairman

Company

Exponential Science Foundation

Speaker Bio

Dr Paolo Tasca is a digital economist who specialises in P2P financial systems. He has advised different international organisations on blockchain technologies, including the EU Parliament, the United Nations, and several central banks. He is the founder and Executive Director of the UCL CBT, Exponential Science, DLT Science Foundation, and UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UK CBT). Previously, he was Lead Economist on digital currencies and P2P financial systems at the German Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. Dr Tasca is also a serial entrepreneur and a patent holder on blockchain interoperability. Dr Tasca is co-editor of four books in the area of DeFi and Web3: “Blockchain Economics” by World Scientific, “Banking Beyond Banks and Money” and “The Internet of Value” both by Springer Nature, “Digital Assets” forthcoming by Cambridge University Press. He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk Finance since 2016 and Editor of the Journal of Digital Banking since 2017. In 2020, he joined ‘Frontiers in Blockchain’ as Specialty Chief Editor for Blockchain Economics. Dr Tasca has been contributing for the New York Times, and his research has been cited in Forbes, New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg, among others. Dr. Tasca also holds honorary positions at several universities including the London School of Economics, and the University of Zurich.