Speaker Bio
Dr. Markus Franke is Co-Founder of Mento, a digital platform used to launch and operate multi-currency stablecoins - digital currencies for payments, cross-border transactions (remittances), the credit & settlement markets. Markus is also a co-creator of Celo, a permissionless, open-source blockchain infrastructure built for the real world, with thousands of projects live in over 150 countries; mobile-first and carbon-negative from its launch.
Markus is an economist who has been working for over 20 years at the intersection of economics, finance and technology: in traditional finance (J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Allianz), as a post-doc researcher (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Columbia Business School NYC, HKUST), and in the Web3 ecosystem (Board Member of cLabs, Chief Economist at Celo Foundation). Markus holds a PhD in economics and is advisor and board member to many projects in the technology space.