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About Bill Maurer
- William M.
- Maurer (born March 31, 1968) is an American academic scholar of legal and economic anthropology.
- He currently serves as the dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
- He has conducted research on money, finance, economy, and law, including the off-shore financial services industry in the Caribbean, alternative currencies, Islamic finance, mobile money, and traditional and emerging payment technologies, as well as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies.
- He has been called the “doyen” of the subfield of the anthropology of finance.
- Maurer is also the founding director of the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion, a research institute at UC Irvine funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the Filene Research Institute.
- He was previously the founding co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing, also at UCI.
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