Dimitrios Psarrakis is Advisor of Economic and Monetary Policy at the European Parliament. He works mainly on files related to the Capital Markets Union, FinTech, and Financial Innovation. Recently he was the leading draftsperson of the Blockchain Resolution and the Industry Committee’s Opinion on the extension of the European Fund of Strategic Investments. Prior to his work in the European Parliament he worked as credit risk specialist in the banking sector and he was also economic policy advisor at the Parliament of Greece during the years of the Greek debt crisis. His research interests are related to financial industry transformation, banking innovation, digitalization of financial services and crypto-crowdfunding. He is affiliated with Universities in Europe, USA and Asia, and he studied Finance in Harvard University