Lead in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School
Michel Rauchs is the Lead in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an academic research centre at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is responsible for the Centre''s industry and policy research focused on cryptoassets, blockchains and other distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems.
Michel is a co-author of the "Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study" and the "Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study", the first studies to empirically cover the cryptocurrency and DLT industries, respectively, using non-public survey data from 300+ entities.
Michel completed his Master in International Business at Grenoble Ecole de Management in 2016 (publishing a Master's thesis about the evolution of the Bitcoin business ecosystem based on a unique longitudinal dataset of 500+ cryptocurrency entities), and his Bachelor of Science in Economics at the University of Lausanne in 2014.
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