Ekin Genç
DPhil Socio-Legal Studies (Part-time)
Other affiliations
Keble College
Biography
Ekin is a DPhil candidate researching decentralised finance (DeFi) as a form of private order.
He holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford, where he graduated with Distinction, and in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics as a Jean Monnet Scholar.
Ekin is editor-in-chief of DL News and has previously covered the crypto industry for Fortune and VICE. He has worked in public policy in Brussels, London, and Washington, D.C., and co-directed a judicial review against the UK government over a retrospective policy change, which was heard by the Court of Appeal.
His research at Oxford is supported through a grant from Kleros, a decentralised arbitration platform.