Professor Dr. Fabian Schär is a Credit Suisse Asset Management (Switzerland) Professor for Distributed Ledger Technology/Fintech at the Faculty of Business and Economics. In addition, he is the Managing Director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the University of Basel. His research focus is on interdisciplinary analyses of Smart Contracts, asset tokenisation, and blockchain applications. He has a PhD in Cryptoassets and Blockchain Technology, and has co-authored several publications, including the bestselling book “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets” as well as several scientific articles published in the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. He is the organiser of the “Blockchain Symposium”, the “Blockchain Challenge”, and a co-initiator of a project to secure academic credentials on a Blockchain. In addition, he is an advisor of Vision& and Smart Containers and he teaches at various universities, and at the Deutsche Börse Group. He is also a speaker, with invitations to numerous conferences, including the G20 Global Financial Stability Conference.