Andy Yee is a public affairs executive with experience in the financial services and technology sectors. He is currently Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Asia at Sun Life, and was previously with Visa and Google. He has also held roles in public institutions including the Hong Kong Government and the European Union Delegation to China. He started his career in investment banking and capital markets.

He is a published author on finance, technology and geopolitics, and his works have appeared in leading academic and policy journals. He is an Industry Associate at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a former Payments Committee Co-Chair of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, and a 2017 AILA International Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and a master’s degree in Pacific Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He speaks Mandarin, English, Japanese and Cantonese.

University of Cambridge

Information Engineering MEng '05, University of Cambridge

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Pacific Asian Studies MA '10, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Industry Associate, University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies

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Decentralized Science (DeSci) Outlook 2024

What lies on the horizon for DeSci in 2024? Below is a list of notable predictions, and the prevailing sentiment leans towards optimism.NGC Ventures' Tony Gu:With DeSci, we've seen a few interesting DAOs [decentralized autonomous organizations] come up, but one particular area that is untapped, as far as we know, are decentralized efforts to fund open-source projects. I think there is a lot of potential there, coupled together with AI, for example, with decentralized machine learning models.Messari:Finally, there’s decentralized science. Some 50% of the DeSci projects we track were built in the past year. One of the best OG crypto investors I know has been dedicating 100% of his time here. It’s a market where crypto incentives make sense: trust in our scientific establishment may be at all-time lows, and the current system is riddled with bureaucratic inefficiencies, poor data methodologies, and piss-poor incentive schemes (peer-reviewed papers that lead to tenure!), whereas crypto has already demonstrated a proven ability to fund…science experiments! At a massive scale. Token sales and DAOs were built to revolutionize how we do research, and there is enough interest in longevity, rare disease treatments, and space exploration alone to drive development in this sector.Binance founder CZ:Been reading about biotech, thinking about how to use crypto to accelerate research funding there. Keep building!SwissBorg:DeSci has emerged as a promising shift from traditional science. By leveraging blockchain technology and Web3 principles, it can solve different problems such as funding inequality, issues around intellectual property or a lack of collaboration within the scientific community. The bull case for DeSci is that it has become the new GitHub of science.Yet, DeSci remains an evolving experiment. The ecosystem is nascent and has yet to reach its inflexion point. Challenges persist, from technological complexities, limited adoption, credibility issues, and legal uncertainties.Despite the obstacles, DeSci holds significant promise. It will likely transition toward greater mainstream adoption in the coming years with real and new use cases for improving science.Spartan Group:DeSci getting more traction as a strong use case of Blockchain — using Web3 technology to establish a secure, lasting record of scientific contributions that enables fair credit allocation, simplifies transactions, allows worldwide resource sharing, and overcomes economic barriers.@gradivis:#DeSci - The New Crypto Darling? Decentralized Science (DeSci) is poised to become the next significant trend in blockchain, mirroring the amount of  attention and funding going in to biotech etc through traditional  funding mechanisms. OGs like @DataLakeToken , @GenomesDAO and relative newcomers like @ResearchHub are ones to keep an eye (or two) on. 

Decentralized Science (DeSci) Outlook 2024

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