Paolo Tasca
Born
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
ETH Zurich
OccupationEconomist
Websitewww.paolotasca.com

Paolo Tasca is an Italian-born economist and academic.[1][2] He is currently a professor at the University College London, which was also named one of the top global universities for blockchain in 2022.[3] He is also the founder and director of the European nonprofit organisation, the DLT Science Foundation.[4][5]

Early life and education

Tasca was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.[6] He earned his M.A from the University of Padua and his M.Sc. from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.[7] In addition, he pursued his PhD studies at both the Ca' Foscari University and ETH Zurich.[7]

Career

Tasca is a professor at the University College London.[8][9] He is also the founder and incumbent executive director of the Centre for Blockchain Technology at University College London.[10][11] Previously, he worked as a senior research economist at Deutsche Bundesbank.[7]

As an advisor, Tasca has worked with multiple international organizations, including the EU Parliament.[7]

Tasca is the author of two books, namely The FinTech Book and Banking Beyond Banks and Money.[12] He has also worked as an editor of the Journal of Risk Finance and the Journal of Digital Banking.[13][14]

Bibliography

  • REA, triple-entry accounting and blockchain: Converging paths to shared ledger systems (The Journal of Risk and Financial Management)[15]
  • Evolution of ESG-focused DLT Research: An NLP Analysis of the Literature[16]
  • Enabling the Internet of Value (Future of Business and Finance)[17]
  • A digital currency architecture for privacy and owner-custodianship[18]
  • The FinTech Book[7]
  • Banking Beyond Banks and Money[7]
  • The Internet of Value[19]

References

  1. ↑ Matsakis, Louise. "The Cryptocurrency Industry Might Actually Benefit From an Ad Ban". Wired.
  2. ↑ "La criptovaluta di Facebook è solo un wallet piccino e disfunzionale". Il Foglio.
  3. ↑ "UCL ranked seventh best university globally for Blockchain". UCL Computer Science. October 12, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Will blockchain technologies ever become mainstream? | Podcast". euronews. August 9, 2023.
  5. ↑ d'Italia, Banca. "Banca d'Italia - Banca d'Italia e UCL, con DLT Science Foundation, organizzano il Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems Workshop - 26-27 settembre". www.bancaditalia.it.
  6. ↑ "Collaborazioni università-aziende per formare i lavoratori del futuro". La Stampa. October 26, 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Paolo Tasca Profile".
  8. ↑ "Trading gold with Bitcoin's blockchain tech – DW – 03/28/2018". Deutsche Welle.
  9. ↑ Wilson, Tom; Carvalho, Ritvik (May 15, 2019). "Rise of smaller rivals throws up fresh challenge to bitcoin". Reuters.
  10. ↑ Field, Matthew (June 26, 2019). "The tiny UK start-up founded by UCL scientists now at the heart of Facebook's Libra currency". The Telegraph.
  11. ↑ "Once burned, twice keen: Scaramucci isn't giving up on crypto". Politico. 19 January 2023.
  12. ↑ Chishti, Susanne; Barberis, Janos, eds. (April 1, 2016). The FinTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781119218906. ISBN 9781119218876.
  13. ↑ "Journal of Risk Finance: Vol. 19 Iss. 1". Emerald Insight.
  14. ↑ Tasca, Paolo; Widmann, Sebastian (May 3, 2018). "The challenges faced by blockchain technologies — Part 2". Journal of Digital Banking. 2 (3): 259–281 – via RePEc - Econpapers.
  15. ↑ "REA, triple-entry accounting and blockchain: Converging paths to shared ledger systems". scholar.google.com.
  16. ↑ "Evolution of ESG-focused DLT Research: An NLP Analysis of the Literature". scholar.google.com.
  17. ↑ "Enabling the Internet of Value". scholar.google.com.
  18. ↑ "A digital currency architecture for privacy and owner-custodianship". scholar.google.com.
  19. ↑ The Internet of Value blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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