Teaching

Teaching & executive education

Turning complex change into confident decisions

Garrick teaches senior leaders, graduate students, and multidisciplinary teams how to reason clearly about digital assets, artificial intelligence, financial innovation, macroeconomics, and geopolitical change.

Garrick Hileman teaching
University teaching, board-level briefings, and bespoke executive education.
Featured classroom conversation

AI, money & the new world order

Tetr College of Business · Business Class

The global power shift explained

In this wide-ranging conversation, Garrick examines how shifts in global power, artificial intelligence, and money are reshaping the assumptions leaders use to understand business and the world economy.

Current themes

Subjects taught

Geopolitics of cryptocurrency Economics of AI and the future of work Global macroeconomics Responsible AI and AI safety Technology in finance Blockchain and digital assets The rise and fall of empires
Learning design

Representative programmes

Each module can be adapted to the audience's existing knowledge, institutional context, and decision horizon.

Executive education

Digital assets: past, present & future

Builds practical understanding of how cryptocurrency and distributed-ledger technology may — and may not — affect products, services, processes, and business models.

  • 90-minute advanced briefing or two-to-three-hour foundation session
  • Institution-specific cases and decision questions
  • Suitable for live interpretation
University elective

Alternative Channels in Finance

Originally taught at Cambridge Judge Business School, this course examines how technology is reshaping payments, credit, insurance, capital formation, and the role of financial institutions.

  • Market structure and business-model analysis
  • Fintech, alternative finance, and blockchain
  • Evidence-led discussion of opportunities and risks
Economic history

Business & Economic Performance since 1945

Developed at the London School of Economics, this course places business performance and policy choices in international and historical context.

  • Comparative political economy
  • Institutions, productivity, and long-run change
  • Lessons for present-day strategy
Experience

Academic institutions

At Cambridge, Garrick developed and taught the UK's first university class on blockchain technology. Invited teaching and lectures have included the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Northwestern University, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, University of Chicago, University of Warwick, Imperial College London, and Master's Union.

Executive education

Institutional audiences

Previous programmes and lectures have included China Europe International Business School, Invesco, AIA, Sicredi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Deusto Business School, Oxford University Business Education Programme, and Penteo.

Teaching credentials

Academic training

PhDLondon School of Economics, 2015
PGCertHE / AssociateUK Higher Education Academy, 2015