Paolo Tasca

Paolo Tasca (born 13 October 1976) is an Italian economist and academic. He is a Professor of Digital Technologies and Business Strategy at University College London (UCL) and the executive director of the  (UCL CBT) at UCL’s Department of Computer Science.

Tasca’s work focuses on digital technologies, financial innovation, and distributed ledger systems, particularly blockchain applications in finance and business.

 Education 
Tasca studied politics and economics at the University of Padua, earning a Master of Arts degree in 2005. He later completed a Master of Science in Economics and Finance at Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2007. In 2012, he received a PhD in Business from ETH Zurich.

 Career 
Between 2012 and 2015, Tasca worked as an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank.

He later joined University College London, where he founded the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT). At UCL CBT, Tasca has been involved in research and education related to blockchain, financial technology, and emerging digital systems.

Tasca has contributed to research on blockchain classifications and terminology, including work on the concept known as the Internet of Value.

His academic work has been cited in discussions related to international standards for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

 Publications 
Tasca has authored and co-authored academic articles and books on financial technology and blockchain systems.

 Banking Beyond Banks and Money: A Guide to Banking Services in the Twenty-First Century (Springer, 2016, co-editor)
 Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers (World Scientific, 2019, co-editor)
 Enabling the Internet of Value (Springer, 2022, co-editor)

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Category:1976 births
Category:Living people
Category:Italian economists