Chris Brummer is the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Financial Technology at Georgetown University Law Center. As a professor, advisor, board member and advocate, Chris has lent his expertise to policymakers, founders, startups, and nonprofits around the world grappling with some of the most challenging puzzles facing innovation, regulation, and economic opportunity. His work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Marketwatch, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Yahoo Money, Roll Call, Cointelegraph, and Coin Desk, among others.

Chris’s public service and volunteer work extend across government. In addition to serving as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Subcommittee on Virtual Currencies and the Consultative Working Group for the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee, Chris has served as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA and the New York Department of Financial Services Virtual Currency Advisory Board. He also served as a member of the Biden-Harris Transition team in 2020 and was Co-Chair of the Task Force on FinTech, Crypto, and National Security at the Center for a New American Security.

Chris has delivered keynotes at a range of important events, and was named the Jones Day Professor in Commercial Law at Singapore Management University in 2022 and in 2023 delivered the Chorley lecture for the Modern Law Review at the London School of Economics. He has also been selected over the years to be the keynote speaker for the Black History celebrations at the SEC, FinCEN, OCC and His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), among others.

Chris graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, holds a J.D. with honors from Columbia Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of several books, including Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory and Monetary Perspectives and Fintech Law in a Nutshell.

Chris is the host of Fintech Beat podcast, and founder of Washington DC’s Fintech Week, an annual free event for the public.