Bill Maurer

Maurer in 2014

William M. Maurer (born March 31, 1968) is an American academic scholar of legal and economic anthropology. He currently serves as the dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He has conducted research on money, finance, economy, and law, including the off-shore financial services industry in the Caribbean, alternative currencies, Islamic finance, mobile money, and traditional and emerging payment technologies, as well as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies. He has been called the “doyen” of the subfield of the anthropology of finance.[1] Maurer is also the founding director of the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion, a research institute at UC Irvine funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,[2][3] and a fellow of the Filene Research Institute.[4][5] He was previously the founding co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing, also at UCI.[6]

  1. ^ Hann, Chris; Hart, Keith (2011). Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique. Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 160.
  2. ^ Tan, Shiow Chin (August 10, 2008). "New institute to assess mobile banking in developing world". SciDevNet. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  3. ^ Iliff, Anna (August 13, 2013). "All roads lead from social sciences". OC Register. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Filene selects Bill Maurer as Emerging Technology Research Fellow - CUInsight". CUInsight. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  5. ^ "Bill Maurer selected as Filene emerging technology research fellow | School of Social Sciences | UCI Social Sciences". www.socsci.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  6. ^ Barke, Sam (July 10, 2012). "Intel Funds New Research Center". New University. Retrieved 29 November 2015.