Dimitrios Psarrakis
Dimitris Psarrakis is Financial Economist with 20 years of experience in corporate finance, banking and financial regulation. For seven years he was a Economic and Monetary Policy Specialist at the European Parliament where he worked on the drafting of the Digital Finance files of the EU, and critical financial market structure regulations, including MIFID2 and the Crowdfunding Platforms Regulation. Dimitris was the draftsperson of the Blockchain Resolution of the European Parliament that set the framework of regulating DLTs in the EU. He worked on the amending of the MiCA Regulation and his last file of responsibility before leaving the European Parliament was the DLT Pilot Regime that established the framework for the tokenization of financial instruments in legacy financial markets. Dimitris was ranked among the 100-top World influencers in the area of RegTech and Blockchain and he is a frequent speaker in top-tier universities, international organizations, and the World Economic Forum. He has published two books, one on Disintermediation Economics and the impact of Blockchain in Markets and Policies, and one on the Financing and Financial Reporting for the European SMEs both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dimitris is the co-Founder of Valueverse, a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Brussels, which supports the tokenization of real and financial assets providing advice on the financial economics of tokens, regulatory strategy and technological options for investment banks, funds, credit institutions, commodity traders and national regulators. Dimitris has a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from Harvard University, a Diploma in Innovation and Technology Management from MIT, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.