Dr. Morshed Mannan is a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, working in the framework of the ‘BlockchainGov’ ERC Project. His research focuses on blockchain governance and, more broadly, on cooperative governance. He received his Ph.D. from Leiden Law School, Leiden University for his dissertation entitled: The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles and the Path Ahead. He has published several articles in academic journals such as Policy & Society, Ondernemingsrecht, Georgetown Law Technology Review, Technology and Society, Topoi and Erasmus Law Review on topics pertaining to blockchain governance and the formation of a nascent type of cooperative business: platform cooperatives.

He is currently co-authoring a book on blockchain governance with Dr. Primavera de Filippi and Dr. Wessel Reijers, under contract with a leading academic press. He is also editing a blockchain reader, containing primary materials and commentary from key developments and moments in the history of blockchain, with Dr. Primavera de Filippi and several colleagues. As a corporate law researcher, he has earlier published a book Freedom of Establishment for Companies in Europe (EU/EEA) with his PhD supervisor, Iris Wuisman. Morshed is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School in New York City, a CLARITY International Fellow of NCBA Clusa International, and has been called to the Bar of England & Wales and Bangladesh. He has also acted as a consultant on matters regarding decentralized autonomous organizations, and cooperative law and governance for the International Cooperative Alliance and NCBA Clusa International, and as an expert for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the OECD, the European Commission, as well as several local and national government bodies