Dr. Joachim Schwerin

Dr. Joachim Schwerin is PhD economist, blockchain expert and privacy activist. He pursued an academic career – studying political economics at the universities of Kiel and Konstanz as well as doing PhD research at the Technical University of Dresden – before he joined the London School of Economics' Economic History Department as Post-Doc Research Fellow. He then worked for 25 years in the European public sector, where for more than a decade he was responsible for developing policies for DLT and tokenisation, both in finance and the real economy. His current focus lies on DAOs, Web3 and privacy-enhancing technologies. Joachim is engaged with numerous European organisations and universities on these topics, and he is regularly active at cypherpunk and tech events.