Timothy Massad, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, seeks Research Assistants to assist with research on topics pertaining to financial sector innovation, including (i) the regulation of digital assets, including in particular stablecoins as well as tracking the changes that may be implemented by the Trump Administration and the development of frameworks to regulate stablecoins; (ii) the role that communication on social media has played in financial markets, not only in digital asset markets but also in traditional markets as illustrated by the dramatic movements in the trading of Gamestop stock in 2021 and the run on Silicon Valley Bank in 2023; and (iii) the effects of artificial intelligence on the ways that regulators do their job, including the challenges it poses and how it might be employed to improve regulatory processes.
Mr. Massad was chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017, and Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability at the U.S. Treasury from 2010-2014. He is currently the director of the Digital Assets Policy Project at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center and has written extensively about the regulation of digital assets.
Please email a cover note and CV to Timothy_Massad@hks.harvard.edu