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also did a great deal of TV and radio work, hosting TV shows produced by the WSJ Live team
and appearing on numerous networks as a commentator, including CNBC, CNN, Fox Business
and the BBC.
After taking an interest in bitcoin and digital currencies in 2013, Michael and colleague Paul
Vigna founded the Bitbeat column, a regular survey of developments in the field that’s
published on WSJ's Moneybeat blog. The pair went on to co-author the critically acclaimed
book, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global
Economic Order and have collaborated with documentary film makers on the topic. Michael is
now a frequent public speaker, where he speaks about digital currency themes and applications
for the blockchain ledger. He also advises institutions on how to understand the challenges and
opportunities that are emerging from this disruptive, decentralizing technology.
Before the Age of Cryptocurrency, Michael had written two prior books: The Unfair Trade: How
our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class, an analysis the global dimensions
of the recent financial crisis, and Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image, about the famous
photo of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Alberto Korda.
A native of Perth, Australia, Michael is a graduate of the University of Western in Australia. He
also has higher degrees from Cornell University and Curtin University.
Elisabetta CHERCHI
Currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Transport, Technical
University of Denmark, and has a joint appointent with the University of Cagliari in Italy.
Her main research interests are in the area of modelling consumer behaviour, microeconomic
derivation of behavioural models, data collection, demand model estimation and preditiction
and user benefit evaluation. Her major interest is in understanding what drives sustainable
transport behaviour (i.e. shift toward public transport, electric vehicles, driverless vehicles and
bicycles) and how it can be promoted.
She has published 45 papers in peer-reviewed international journals (such as Transportation
Research Part A, B, D, F; Transportation; Transportation Science; Transport Policy) and book
chapters and presented more than 70 papers at international congresses. She is currently Area
Editor of the journal Transportation, member of the Editorial Boards of three other prestigious
transport journals: Transportation Research part B, Journal of Choice Modelling and Transport
Policy. She has been invited to give seminars at top world universities (such as EPFL,
Northwestern, Maryland, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Imperial College, ETH Zurich)
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