Sheila Warren

Previously, Sheila founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the World Economic Forum, where she served as a member of 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. During that time, she built NGOsource, the groundbreaking web service used by leading US foundations to reduce their administrative costs on cross-border grants.

Sheila frequently comments in print, pod, and television, with recent appearances in Bloomberg, CNBC, FT, Politico, Yahoo Finance, Roll Call, Morning Brew, Intelligence Squared, and others. Sheila and her family live in San Francisco.