Chris Berg is a Professor of Economics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Professor Berg is one of Australia’s most prominent voices for free markets and individual liberty, and a leading global authority on regulation, technological change, and civil liberties. He is the author of eleven books, including The New Technologies of Freedom (American Institute for Economic Research, 2020), Understanding the Blockchain Economy (Edward Elgar, 2019), and The Libertarian Alternative (Melbourne University Press, 2016).  He has appeared in front of more than twenty government and parliamentary inquiries. He has also been an advisor to a large number of firms and startups in frontier technology, and has a long-standing advisory role with the blockchain firm Agoric. He is a member of the board of Shielded Labs, a non-profit focused on advancing the privacy cryptocurrency ZCash.