Christopher Giancarlo is senior counsel to the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He served as 13th Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Considered one of the most influential individuals in the field of financial regulation, Christopher has also been a member of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Committee, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, and the executive board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. Christopher's new book, CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money, will be released on October 26, 2021 by John Wiley & Sons. CryptoDad is an account of his oversight of the world's first regulated market for Bitcoin derivatives and the coming transformation of financial services, including the most valuable thing of all: money. He is a board director, advisor and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. Christopher is also a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a US Central Bank Digital Currency.