Donna Redel

Donna Redel

Professor

Donna Redel is a NYC-based advisor/investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain, and emerging technologies. a professor of blockchain-digital assets, an angel investor, and a philanthropist. She was the managing director of The World Economic Forum, the foremost global organization combining business, political, academic, and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Ms. Redel was the first woman to chair a USA exchange, The Commodity Exchange. She is an active participant in the startup community with New York Angels, serving as a board member, the co-chair of the Blockchain Committee, and chair of the Education Committee. Ms . Redel developed and is teaching at Fordham Law School two courses on Blockchain-DeFi-Crypto and joined the Wharton faculty to teach Blockchain-Crypto Currencies-Digital Assets. Highlights of Donna’s committee memberships are the NYS Committee for the Advancement in Women’s Leadership in Financial Services, the MoMA Photography Committee, and a Board Member of The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, The focus of her public service efforts are the arts, health and promoting women’s leadership. She has a J.D. from Fordham Law School, an MBA from Columbia University, and a BA from Barnard College (Columbia).