Featured Speakers & Panelists
Andrew Bailey
Andrew M. Bailey is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College (Singapore).
Andrew Chignell
Andrew Chignell is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor in the University Center for Human Values, with appointments in the departments of Religion and Philosophy. Prior to coming to Princeton in 2019 he held professorships in the Philosophy departments at University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. His work focuses on Immanuel Kant, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the moral psychology of hope and despair. He is an original member of the DeCenter faculty steering committee, where he has organized and hosted panels on Trust and Trustlessness and on Bitcoin as “Resistance Money.” Together with Jacob Shapiro, he organized a one-day DeCenter workshop called “I Wasn’t There: Applications of Blockchain to Privacy Preserving Reality Protection.”
Bradley Rettler
Bradley Rettler is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Bitcoin Research Institute at the University of Wyoming. He has published a dozen or so papers in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His second book, The Problem of Divine Personality (with Andrew M Bailey) is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Criag Warmke
Criag Warmke is an associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. His research mostly concerns meaning and money. He continues to develop a novel semantic framework for both natural language and various formal systems. So far, Criag used it for first-order logic and modal logic, under both metaphysical and deontic interpretations.In 2018, he began writing about bitcoin and the future of money at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and computer science. Craig is also a Senior Fellow with the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization.
Carolyn Wilkins
Carolyn A. Wilkins is an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee, and a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Studies. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Intact Financial Corporation. She is a guest mentor at the HEC’s Creative Destruction Lab Blockchain and Web3 stream. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Wilkins had a distinguished twenty-year career at the Bank of Canada, serving as Senior Deputy Governor from 2014 to 2020, setting monetary and financial system policies with Governing Council, and overseeing strategic planning and economic research. Ms. Wilkins has published and spoken on a broad range of international issues, including economic resilience, global financial regulation, and Fintech. She has made important contributions to international financial policies over her career, for instance as the Bank of Canada’s G20 and G7 Deputy and member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). She also served on the International Monetary Fund’s High-Level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Laurier University, an MA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, and an Honours BA in Economics from Laurier University. She was named as a winner of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award by the Women’s Executive Network in 2016 and 2018.