Samer Hassan is an activist and researcher, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Focused on decentralized collaboration, he was awarded a 1.5M€ ERC grant for the P2P Models project, to study blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, with the aim for more democratic and economically sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy. Coming from a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Social Sciences, he has 60+ publications in those fields (H-index=25). In the EU-funded P2Pvalue project, he coordinated building decentralized free/open source web-tools for collaborative communities and social movements, such as SwellRT which was adopted by the prestigious Apache Foundation. He’s an accredited grassroots facilitator and has experience in multiple communities and grassroots initiatives. Check his Wikipedia for more info.