Filippo Zatti

Filippo Zatti is an associate professor of Economic Law at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, where chairs a working group project — aka BABEL — about AI and blockchain technology for business, economics, and law.

He currently lectures in Economic Law, Business Law, Innovation and Sustainability, Blockchains and Economics and Law of Digital Assets. He coordinated the professional development course in Economics and Law of Digital Assets for three editions. Likewise, he is a lecturer for the Master in Digital Transformation.

He is a supervisor at the National PhD in Blockchain & DLT, as well as the coordinator at the University of Florence of the research unit for DeTOKoDE project. Recently, he collaborated with the Bank of Italy, participating in the evaluation body of the Fintech Milano Hub 2022 call for proposals. He consulted the bicameral commission of the Parliament of the Italian Republic (18th Legislature) on banking and the financial system.

He is a collaborator in two research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation dealing with the effects of the use of blockchain technology on company law and monetary and financial law.

His research commitments abroad include those as an academic fellow member of the European Banking Institute and individual fellow of the European Law Institute. In addition, he is an academic advisor for INATBA.

He has been a visiting scholar at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh; in addition, he has been invited for seminars at UCL CBT, University of Zurich, IALS (University of London), University of Neuchatel, University of Valencia, University of Alicante and the EUI.

His research interests focus on the legal nature of digital assets and the phenomenon of CBDCs.