Christian Catalini is the head economist for Calibra, the subsidiary of Facebook's digital currency Libra. He is currently on leave from his role as associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he founded the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and designed the MIT Digital Currency Research Study. Christian is also a faculty research fellow in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and an MSc in economics and management of New Technologies from Bocconi University, Milan.