Advisory Board
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Prof. Bill Maurer, Dean of Social Sciences & Professor of Anthropology & Law, University of California, IrvineBill Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine. He is the author of How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money, among many other publications. The Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he coordinates research in over 40 countries on how new payment technologies impact poor people’s wellbeing. His work explores the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment, from cowries to credit cards. His work has had an impact on US and global policies for mobile payment and financial access, and it has been been discussed in venues ranging from Bloomberg Businessweek to NPR’s Marketplace. He was appointed to the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences of the US National Research Council in 2015, recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a new project on bitcoin, and consulted with the US Department of Treasury on the redesign of the US $10 bill. He received his BA from Vassar College and his MA and PhD from Stanford University. |
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Dr. Susan Scott, Associate Professor (Reader) of Information Systems, Department of Management, London School of EconomicsDr Susan Scott is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Department of Management, London School of Economics & Political Science. She has published widely on technology, work and organisation from a management studies perspective. Many of these publications examine the role of information systems in the transformation of work practices within the financial services sector. Among the topics that she has focused on are decision support systems and risk management; the rise of electronic futures trading; strategies for organizing post-trade information systems; and the institutionalization of core international payment systems. In these studies she explores the dynamic relationships connecting strategy, organizational structure, and operations (particularly information infrastructures). Corollary to this is an enduring interest in the complexities of managing change (see her publications on organisational reputation risk, software implementation and best practice). She has also published a body of theoretical work examining sociomateriality which explores the materiality of digital innovation with field studies in the travel sector and book publishing. She has developed these research interests into core themes that feed into her MSc teaching on global business management and BSc teaching on project management and business transformation. Her background includes a BA in History and Politics (SOAS), MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems (LSE), and a PhD in Management Studies (University of Cambridge). |