David Shrier
David L. Shrier is an American futurist, author and entrepreneur.[1] He has written for numerous publications including Forbes, CNBC, Newsweek, and The Asian Banker. Shrier also co-edits the MIT Connection Science imprint of MIT Press and is the author of various industry reference books in the fields of financial technology,[2] digital identity, data governance[3] and financial innovation.[4] He is a globally recognized authority on financial innovation, serial entrepreneur, global educator, and government advisor.[5][6] Shrier is the founder & CEO of Distilled Identity, an artificial intelligence company derived from MIT research and spun out of MIT Media Lab.[7]
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Occupation | CEO, Distilled Identity Fellow, Colorado School of Mines Associate Fellow, Oxford University Lecturer, MIT |
Website | https://distilledidentity.com/ |
Career
He is also Vice Chairman of Endor,[8] a blockchain-enabled crowd intelligence platform; advisor to Millennium Advisors, a middle market credit liquidity provider, on technology trends and growth management; and served as strategic advisor to Ripple. Shrier has helped established organizations to develop and build new revenue streams, having developed growth opportunities with C-suite executives for Dun & Bradstreet, Wolters Kluwer, Ernst & Young, GE, The Walt Disney Company, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as private equity and venture capital funds. He has led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO.[9]
Learning Innovation
Shrier created the MIT online fintech course “Future Commerce” that educated thousands of students in over 120 countries, adapting his successful on-campus MIT graduate course of the same name (itself the first graduate fintech course in North America).[10][11] In 2017, he re-created his online programme at University of Oxford's Saïd Business School (SBS) under the name Oxford Fintech, and added a second programme Oxford Blockchain Strategy.[12] The Dean of SBS teaches one of the modules in Oxford Fintech. David also co-founded and is Chairman of Riff Learning, an MIT spinout company that is applying artificial intelligence to reshape collaboration. David is on the advisory board of WorldQuant University, a program offering a totally-free, accredited, online master's degree in financial engineering.[13]
Government & Regulatory work
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Shrier has collaborated with regulators and policymakers in the US, UK, EU, and through the OECD its member countries, to help shape emerging policy on disruptive technologies. He is presently a member of the FinTech Industry Committee for FINRA, the U.S. securities industry's self-regulatory body; and the Fintech Trade & Investment Steering Board for the UK Government's Department of International Trade. David also advises the European Parliament, European Commission, and OECD on digital identity, AML/KYC, blockchain, and AI. He previously advised the European Commission on commercializing innovation with a focus on digital technology, and the Government of Dubai on blockchain and digital identity.[14]
Academia
Shrier has a triple academic appointment as an Associate Fellow with the Said Business School, University of Oxford; Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab; and Fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. Shrier has written for numerous publications including Forbes, CNBC, Newsweek, and The Asian Banker. He also co-edits the MIT Connection Science imprint of MIT Press and is the author of various industry reference books:
Books
- Frontiers of Financial Technology, New Solutions for Cybersecurity (with Alex Pentland) (2016)
- Trust::Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data Sharing (2016)
- New Solutions for Cybersecurity (MIT Connection Science and Engineering) (2018)
References
- "Davos 2018 Field Report : An Interview With David Shrier From University of Oxford Fintech". Forbes. January 28, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "New Solutions for Cybersecurity (The MIT Press)". MIT Press. April 25, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Trust::Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data sharing". VisionaryFuture. April 25, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Frontiers of Financial Technology: Expeditions in future commerce, from blockchain and digital banking to prediction markets and beyond". VisionaryFuture. April 25, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "This AI Tool Could Revolutionize Impact Investing". Forbes. April 25, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Getting To Trusted Data Via AI, Machine Learning And Blockchain". Forbes. June 17, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Distilled Analytics Launches Behavioral Analytics Model to Transform Financial Services". Distilled Analytics. January 18, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Endor". Endor. January 18, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Money20/20 Vegas 2018". Money2020. January 18, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "MIT's new online FinTech certificate course: Future Commerce". FinTech Profile. October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Future Commerce' Explores Innovation in Financial Technology". MIT Technology Review. April 11, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "Saïd Business School launches Blockchain Strategy programme to help businesses get to grips with new computing reality". Said Business School. November 15, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "WorldQuant University". WorldQuant University. April 11, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- "David Shrier thinks we need a better model of how we deploy new technologies (and he's right)". CIO. June 6, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.