Speaker

Dr. Joachim Schwerin
Principal Economist, Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dr. Joachim Schwerin is the Principal Economist in the unit responsible for the Digital Transformation of Industry within the Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs(DG GROW) of the European Commission. He is responsible for developing the policy approach of DG GROW towards the Token Economy and Distributed-Ledger Technologies as well as their applications for industry and SMEs. Moreover, he coordinates initiatives to foster the development of digital skills for the European industrial ecosystems. In 2020, he contributed to the Digital Finance Strategy, including the MiCA Regulation. Joachim holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Dresden University of Technology and was a Research Fellow at the Economic History Department of the London School of Economics before he joined the European Commission in 2001.