Sheila Warren is the Chief Executive Officer of the Project Liberty Institute and the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer of Project Liberty.
Previously, she served as the inaugural CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, the premier global alliance advancing responsible crypto innovation worldwide.
Prior to that, Sheila founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the World Economic Forum, where she served on the Executive Committee. As the Deputy Global Head of the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, she oversaw strategy across 16 countries to advance the adoption of new technologies in the global public interest.
Sheila began her career as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore after earning her J.D. at Harvard Law School. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Economics and spent a decade in civic technology, including as an attorney, entrepreneur, product head, and TechSoup senior executive. She was the founding Executive Director of civic tech platform NGOsource, and she has dedicated her career to ensuring new technologies are built equitably and ethically.
Sheila has testified in front of Congress and various state legislatures and frequently comments in print, pod, and television, with appearances in Bloomberg, CNBC, PBS, NPR, FT, NYT, the Washington Post, Politico, Yahoo Finance, Roll Call, Morning Brew, and others. She has been on stages on five continents, she has lectured at Wharton, Stanford, Cal, and Oxford, and she was named one of Washingtonian’s Most Powerful Women in Washington in 2023.
Connect:
- LinkedIn: Sheila Warren
- X: @sheila_warren