Opinion
The lessons from recent hurricanes shouldn't be ignored. It’s time to upgrade internet infrastructure and position people to achieve financial sophistication.
Agnes Gambill
Agnes Gambill West is an affiliate senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She's the co-chair of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative, an appointee to the North Carolina Innovation Council, and serves on the Business and Consumer Payments Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. She has experience working as a proprietary trader and is the co-founder of an Ethereum-based blockchain payments company. She received a JD from University of North Carolina School of Law, an LLM from Duke University School of Law, and an MSc from Oxford University.
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