Andrea Leiter is Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and a Fellow at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research. Her work explores global inequality and transnational governance through private actors in the digital economy. Drawing on her background in international law, she examines how law and technology shape our understanding of value and our relationship to land and community. Alongside her academic work, Leiter has developed initiatives focused on ecological and social justice at the intersection of ecology, technology and economics. These include the Sovereign Nature Initiative and A Thousand Breaths.

Simon Trimborn is an Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Data Science at the Amsterdam School of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the UvA, he held academic positions at City University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore, following his PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin. His dissertation was entitled Statistics of Digital Finance. His work focuses on the analysis of high-dimensional time-series data, which he uses to investigate specific issues relating to social media, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and finance.