How to (and not to) Regulate Crypto
Date: Friday, September 29, 2023
Save the date to join GIC in our return to Montreal on September 29, 2023!
Event Detail
How to (and not to) Regulate Crypto
Save the date to join GIC in Montreal on September 29, 2023! The Global Interdependence Center is partnering with the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University for the upcoming Desmarais Global Finance Lecture.
This conference aims to bring together thought leaders and decision-makers from academia, public policy circles, and the business world, with the goal to promote thought exchange, dialogue, and the exploration of solutions to global challenges in finance and economics. For this year, Professor Christine Parlour, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas, is confirmed as a Keynote speaker. Watch this page for updates as GIC is building an exciting one-day program that includes additional speakers from academia, the policy/regulatory environment, as well as the business community.
Event Location
Address:
The Donald E. Armstrong Building, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Room 370
3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 0E2, Canada
Speakers
Christine A. Parlour
Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting, Haas School of Business at the University of California, BerkeleyChristine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking.
Mohamad Al-Bustami
Managing Director, Digital Innovation Hub, Office of the Superintendent of Financial InstitutionsMohamed is an experienced cyber security, intelligence and cyber risk leader with 14+ years proven record of managing global teams, directing different levels of staff, managing complex environments and delivering decision support in domestic and global matrix industries at the cutting edge of global financial sector technology capability. He is currently the Managing Director of the Digital Innovation Impact Hub at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) Canada.
Anthony Bassili
Head of Asset Allocators, CoinbaseAnthony Bassili, CAIA is Head of Asset Allocators for Coinbase Institutional Americas. In this role, he is responsible for advising global financial institutions on investment solutions related to digital asset tokenization, real-world asset tokenization, web3, and crypto hedge and venture strategies. His Clients include Government and Corporate Pension Plans, Investment Consultants, Multi-Manager Platforms, Foundations/Endowments, as well as Single and Multi-Family Offices.
Yolande E. Chan, Ph.D.
Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill UniversityDr. Yolande E. Chan joined McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management as Dean and James McGill Professor in August 2021.
Franca Ciambella
Desautels International Advisory and Advancement Board; CEO-Riau (Canada) Inc. and Lawyer/Advisor, Global Law AllianceFranca is a highly qualified lawyer, mediator and advisor with an excellent business background and acumen, and a solid track record operating at top levels in large global firms and multinational organizations. She has held prestigious board, committee and other leadership positions in business, social, government and private institutions. Able to easily navigate between sophisticated and developing economic ecosystems worldwide, she is a personable, passionate, and effective individual who is driven by values, contribution, innovation, entrepreneurship and a sense of duty.
Ananya Kumar
Ananya Kumar, Associate Director, Digital Currenciesnanya Kumar is the associate director of digital currencies at the GeoEconomics Center. She manages the Center’s work on the future of money and coordinates research on central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets.
Karen Mills
Senior Fellow, Harvard Business SchoolKaren Gordon Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from 2009 until 2013, and was a member of the President’s National Economic Council. At SBA, she led a team of more than 3,000 employees and managed a loan guarantee portfolio of over $100 billion. At the height of the Great Recession, she took steps that led to record-breaking years for SBA lending and investments in growth capital. Additionally, Mills’ efforts helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early-stage capital, boost exports, and tap into government and commercial supply chains. She is the author of the book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), as well as numerous other publications on fintech, innovation policy, and the supply chain economy.
Marina Moretti
Deputy director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)Marina Moretti is deputy director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this capacity, she oversees the policy and technical work on financial supervision and regulation as well as on financial crisis preparedness and management. She has extensive experience across several aspects of financial stability and has published on financial crises; bank and corporate restructuring; regulatory reforms; and systemic risk analysis.
David Schumacher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty Scholar, Director, Desmarais Global Finance Research Center, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill UniversityDavid Schumacher is an Associate Professor in the Finance Area at the Desautels Faculty of Management. His research is primarily concerned with themes in global investment management, including the portfolio choice and performance of international institutional investors, the financial market implications of the rise of large asset management firms as well as the overall industrial organization of the global investment management industry.
Kathleen Stephansen
GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust FundsKathleen Stephansen is GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds. She is the former Chief Economist of Huawei Technologies, Chief Economist of the American International Group (AIG) and AIG Asset Management’s Senior Strategist and Global Head of Sovereign Research. Prior to joining AIG in 2010, Kathleen was Chief Economist at Aladdin Capital Holdings, Credit Suisse’s Head of Global Economic Research, and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation’s co-head of Fixed Income economic research and Chief International Economist.
Katrin Tinn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of ManagementKatrin 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.
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