Founder of AgAu.io - The Peer-to-Peer, Electronic Money System backed by Ag (Silver) and Au (Gold) in Switzerland. Thierry is has worked for major trading houses and financial institutions such as Trafigura, LUKOIL, Scotia Capital, ICAP and Credit Suisse. Thierry is a Mensa member and a venture-philanthropist. He is an expert speaker and lecturer for topics ranging from commodity trading, international finance, and frontier technology including: A.I, I.O.T and Blockchain
Named from the merger of the two atomic symbols “Ag” (for Silver) and “Au” (for Gold). AgAu plans to issue digital tokens corresponding to the direct ownership of silver and gold bullion physically allocated in Switzerland. AgAu aims to be the easiest way to transact the direct ownership of allocated and redeemable physical LBMA quality gold and silver. The precious metal is audited and verified with blockchain and smart contract technology. AgAu tokens are payment tokens 1:1 backed by the corresponding precious metals secured in regulated private vaults outside the banking system.
Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel. His current research focus is DLT, Blockchain, Cryptoassets, and monetary policy instruments such as negative interest rates and balance sheet extensions. He is a research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, a technical advisor for the Bank for International Settlement in Basel, and a member of the advisory board of the thematic equity funds for Credit Suisse Asset Management. He also used to be an external consultant for the Swiss National Bank. He publishes in top academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, and is a co-author of the book "Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets" published in MIT-Press.
He studied at the Universities of Basel and Bern, and at the London School of Economics, and held visiting positions at the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Zurich, the Free University of Berlin and the Université Paris Dauphine. In his spare time, he plays tennis and renovates Riads in Marrakesh!