Prof. Bill Roscoe
Director, University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre
Professor of Computer Science at Oxford 1997-2024, now Emeritus. Head of Department 2003-14. Leading authority on Computer Security, Concurrency, Verification and Blockchain. Founder of several companies including TBTL (Security and Blockchain), Cocotec (Verification) and Iothic (Network Authentication). Author of over 200 academic papers and several books including the forthcoming Understanding Decentralised Systems — a reinvention of blockchain for the mainstream world.