HLS Blockchain & Fintech Initiative

Harvard Law School's leading student organization focusing on crypto, DeFi, and fintech.

2022-2023 Leadership Board

Louis Hunt, President

Louis is a third-year JD/MBA student at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Louis was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the Boston area during elementary school. Over the past few summers, Louis worked as an EIR at Pioneer Square Labs and led Special Projects for Lightning Labs. Prior to school, Louis worked as the COO of a fast-growth CPG company and a consultant at Bain & Company.

 

Farzam Karimi, Vice President of Research & Policy

Farzam is a second-year JD student at Harvard Law School. He worked as a software developer and analyst at Kapital Labs where he constructed Smart Contracts and performed on chain analysis. Farzam is currently a research affiliate for the Harvard & Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. He has also been a consultant for several Web-3 based projects and start-ups.

Jonathan Pock, Vice President of Research & Governance

Jonathan is an LLM student at Harvard Law School and a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, where he has co-taught a class on crypto-assets with Prof. Chris Thomale. Jonathan previously worked in the fintech investment team at Speedinvest and at Boston Consulting Group. He also served as the President of Vienna Law Clinics, advising early stage startups.

Jacek Czarnecki, Co-Vice President of Research

Jacek is an LLM student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of Oxford (MSc in Law and Finance) and University of Warsaw (Master of Law). Jacek has spent his professional career in the fintech and blockchain space, most recently as Global Legal Counsel at the Maker Foundation, a key entity behind a large Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project MakerDAO. He has been involved in many other business and academic projects and industry organizations around the globe and spoke at multiple crypto and blockchain conferences and events.

Madeleine Matsui, Vice-President of Communications

Madeleine is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School from Hong Kong. She graduated from Brown University where she majored in Urban Studies and International Relations. She spent her 2L summer at Gunderson Dettmer’s New York City office.

Katherine Ko, Treasurer

Katherine is a second-year law student at Harvard Law School. She graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa from Columbia University, where she double majored in Art History and French Language and Literature. She spent her 1L summer at Proskauer. Prior to law school, she worked at Sotheby’s in New York where she witnessed the rise of NFTs, sparking her interest in the intersection between art, technology and law. In her free time, Katherine is an avid artist, pianist and runner. She has run 38 marathons, participated in a 70.3 Ironman, and is the youngest person in Asia to finish the 6 Abbott World Marathon Majors (Boston, New York, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo).

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