Michael Casey is a journalist, author, podcaster, business leader, public speaker and event host. His work sits at the intersection of technology, money and society.

Michael is Chairman of the Advanced AI Society (DAIS), a non-profit bringing together entities that deploy technologies such as blockchains and cryptography to build an open, privacy-preserving, self-sovereign internet for the AI age. He is also founder of Tell, a Web3 audience-engagement platform empowering documentary filmmakers to fund and distribute their films. 

Michael has published six acclaimed books and is currently working on a seventh: FULL CIRCLE: Inside the Battle for the Future of Money, which was acquired in an advance by St. Martin’s Press. It will cover the history of Circle and the impact of stablecoins on the disruption of the global financial system. His previous book, OUR BIGGEST FIGHT:  Reclaiming Liberty, Dignity and Humanity in the Digital Age, was co-authored with the civic entrepreneur and Project Liberty founder, Frank McCourt. 

Michael is an advisor to a handful of decentralized projects, including on-chain real-estate company Propy and “Internet of AI” pioneer Hypercycle, which recently signed a large investment and development contract in South Korea. Previously, he was CoinDesk’s chief content officer, overseeing an award-winning newsroom. He was also Chairman of Consensus, CoinDesk’s annual conference, and co-host, with Sheila Warren, of its Money Reimagined podcast. He was a founding staffer at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative - where he remains an advisor - and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT, he was a senior columnist covering global economic affairs at The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for almost two decades. 

A native of Perth, he is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and has higher degrees from Cornell University and Curtin University.