Garrick translates complex shifts in digital assets, financial innovation, AI, and macroeconomics into clear, decision-useful insights.
Engagements range from executive and investor briefings to public-policy roundtables, conference keynotes, panels, and moderated conversations. Talks are tailored to the audience rather than delivered from a standard script.
Recent highlights
Financial Innovation Network · London
Digital assets and blockchain · California
Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy · Spain
Annual Research Conference panel discussant · London
Television interviews and press coverage ↓ · Policy and academic engagements ↓
BBC · CNBC · Sky News · Financial Times · NPR · Bloomberg · Associated Press · The Wall Street Journal · The Washington Post
Featured television
Why bitcoin was on the rise
China outlaws banks from using bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Chinese paradox
What are the risks for Bitcoin?
Bitcoin regulation in China
Has the bitcoin bubble burst?
Selected coverage
Policy and academic engagements
Central-bank, policy and academic engagements span monetary innovation, digital assets and financial technology.
Full policy and academic record · 2012–2025
Recent invited engagements
Financial Stability Board
Financial Innovation Network, London.
Bank of England
Annual Research Conference, panel discussant, London.
Central-bank, law-enforcement & policy forums
San Francisco Federal Reserve cryptocurrency research conference; Bank of England Research Forum; UK National Crime Agency Cryptocurrency Roundtable; Chatham House Crypto Panel.
US policy discussions
Panellist in ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation webinar, Does the United States Need a “Digital Dollar”? (21 May 2020).
Private digital-currency roundtable hosted by CSIS and OMFIF's Digital Monetary Institute.
Global financial-policy forums
OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum; World Economic Forum central-bank digital-currency workshop; Financial Stability Board Financial Innovation Network; European Banking Authority forum for innovation facilitators.
Recent conferences & workshops
MARBLE Conference
International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, Spain.
MARBLE Conference
International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, London.
Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion and Risks
San Francisco State University.
Blockchain and peer-to-peer financial systems
MARBLE Conference, Santorini; P2P Financial Systems Conference, European Central Bank.
P2P Financial Systems
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Earlier invitations
A longer record of public-policy and academic participation.
Public-policy engagements, 2018–2013
2018 — Financial Stability Board Financial Innovation Network, Milan; World Economic Forum financial-services innovation workshop, London; OECD Digital Assets Workshop.
2017 — CIA Digital Economy Roundtable; Bank of England Technology Fortnight; Financial Stability Board Financial Innovation Network, San Francisco; European Capital Markets Institute, Brussels.
2016 — US Army Special Operations Command Futures Forum, Fort Bragg.
2015 — Federal Reserve Virtual Currency Conference; Commonwealth Central Bank Governors Meeting; US Army War College lecture.
2014 — Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation; Fraud Advisory Panel.
2013 — US Naval War College; International Association of Deposit Insurers conference at the Bank for International Settlements.
Academic conferences & workshops, 2017–2012
2017 — Bitcoin and Blockchain Research Conference, Malta; Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Annual Conference; European Historical Economics Society Conference.
2016 — Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; WSBI-ESBG; interdisciplinary blockchain workshop, Barbados; Bank of Italy; Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
2015 — P2P Financial Systems Conference, Deutsche Bundesbank; Bitcoin Research Conference, Puerto Rico.
2014 — Free Market Forum, Indianapolis; Bitcoin Research Conference, Barbados.
2013 — Invited presentations and workshops on virtual currencies, sovereign risk, and economic history in Europe and North America.
2012 — Academic presentations on economic history, sovereign credit, and financial institutions.
Policy briefings, panels & research exchange
Briefings
Concise, evidence-led orientation for policy teams and institutional leaders.
Panels & roundtables
Independent framing, constructive challenge, and synthesis across disciplines.
Academic discussion
Research presentation, conference discussion, and programme-committee participation.
Earlier public speaking · 2013–2016
2016: Consensus (New York) The Royal Institution (London) FinTech R&D Innovation Conference (Luxembourg) Convoco (Salzburg) British Bankers Association (London) UBS Investment Conference (London) Seoul International Finance Conference (Seoul) 2nd Blockchain Global Summit (Shanghai)2015: Consensus (New York) Blockchain Workshops (London) Digital Catapult Cryptocurrency Pitstop (London)
2014: Guardian Activate (London) Coinsummit (San Francisco) Digital Currency Summit (Andorra) Adam Smith Economics Society (Glasgow) LSE Sociology Forum (London) LSE Economics Society (London)
2013: Le Web (Paris) Bitcoin London (London) Bitcoin 2013 presentation and panel (San Jose)