Anne Connelly

Anne Connelly is passionate about harnessing blockchain and decentralized technology to transform the lives of people in emerging economies.

Anne has been a leader in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector since 2012. She is Faculty at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, where she teaches blockchain-based business models for social impact. She has also lectured at Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business on Innovations for Impact Finance.

She is the co-author of “Bitcoin and the Future of Fundraising”, a guide for charities on crypto donations, and the co-author of ‘Trust’, a graphic novel that teaches young Africans about blockchain. She is certified from the Institute of Corporate Directors and sits as a steward on the Gitcoin DAO, a decentralized organization that supports the creation of public goods.

Anne previously worked with Doctors Without Borders as a field worker in Central African Republic and the DR Congo. She has a Bachelor of Life Sciences from Queen’s University, an MBA from McMaster University, and is certified in Strategic Disruption from Harvard Business School. She was honoured as one of CBC’s 12 Young Leaders Changing Canada and one of the Fifty Most Inspirational Women in Technology in Canada.