Michael Casey

Senior Advisor, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Michael Casey is a senior advisor at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He also the Chairman of CoinDesk’s Advisory Board. Before joining MIT, Michael spent 18 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, where he last served as a columnist covering global economics. He is the author of five books, including the recently published The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, co-authored with Paul Vigna. Michael is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and has higher degrees from Curtin and Cornell universities.

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VoxEU Column

The blockchain catalyst for change

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