He focuses on blockchain, fintech, and international macro-finance. His research has been cited in testimony in U.S. Congress and his academic work informed the U.S. Treasury’s Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC) and the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)’s federal financial policy. Prior to Shanghai, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown and a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Bank of England. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford.
Dr. Ilaf Elard serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Economics and Core Faculty Member at the Center for Data Science and A.I. at NYU Shanghai. 