Professor Cesare Fracassi

Professor Cesare Fracassi is an advisor to Quai Network and an associate professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, where he leads the Blockchain Initiative and the Fintech Research Lab. He was a member of the State of Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters and served as chief economist of the Coinbase Institute.

His research spans cryptocurrencies, corporate governance, executive compensation, credit rating agencies, and the effects of social networks on financial policies, with articles published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Before earning his PhD, Fracassi worked as a strategic management consultant at Booz Allen and Roland Berger in Italy. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and an MBA and PhD in finance from UCLA Anderson.