Co-Pierre Georg joined EDHEC Business School from the University of Cape Town, where he was an Associate Professor and South African Reserve Bank Research Chair in Financial Stability Studies. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from the University of Jena and later joined the Deutsche Bundesbank Research Centre, where he held a part-time position after joining the University of Cape Town in 2013. At UCT, Co-Pierre established a master's degree in financial technology and launched the UCT-Algorand Financial Innovation Centre. His research focuses on financial and social interconnections, and in his recent work he is particularly interested in how technology shapes a new financial system.