Maarten van Oordt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, Finance,VU Amsterdam

Maarten is associate professor at the department of Finance of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prior to his work at the VU, Maarten worked as a Research Advisor at the Banking and Payments Department at the Bank of Canada to mentor a team of talented young research economists that advised the Bank on cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currency (CBDC). His research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Political Economy. He holds a PhD in financial economics from the Erasmus University ... Read More

Katrin Tinn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Finance, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management

Katrin Tinn's research focuses on theoretical modelling, technological innovation, financial economics, information economics. Her most recent work is on FinTech: the role of crowdfunding and distributed ledger technologies (blockchain) in raising external capital and facilitating learning about future demand, and on central bank digital currency design. Her research has been published in prominent journals, such as the American Economic Review, Management Science and Journal of Economic Theory. She has also written book chapters for editions focused on alternative finance, blockchain, and digital currencies (Palgrave-MacMillan, World Scientific Publishers, and VoxEU’s e-book series). Prior joining McGill in 2019, she worked as an Assistant ... Read More