Timothy Massad, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Director of the Center’s Digital Assets Policy Project, seeks a Research Assistant to assist with research on topics pertaining to financial sector innovation, including in particular (i) the regulation of digital assets, including implementation of the GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins and digital asset market structure legislation, (ii) digital asset innovation and market developments, (iii) prediction markets (or event contract markets), and other topics.
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.
Students who are joint degree candidates at the law or business school, are especially welcome to apply. Please email a cover note and CV to Mr. Massad’s assistant, Erik Nolan, at erik_nolan@hks.harvard.edu.