Draft:Thomas Puschmann

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Thomas Puschmann, according to Handelzeitung, is one of the biggest FinTech experts in Switzerland and works at the junction of technology and business. His current research focuses on making the financial system more sustainable [1]. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Global Center for Sustainable Digital Finance at Stanford University and the University of Zurich, and the Head of the Swiss Fintech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich.

Biography[edit]

Thomas is a member of the Blockchain Taskforce of the Swiss Federal Council, member of the Swiss Innovation Council Innosuisse,[2] Founder and President of the Association Swiss Digital Trade Platform, Founder and Executive Director of Swiss Fintech Innovations, and Chairman of the Swiss Association for Standardization for Distributed Ledger Technologies as part of ISO[3].

He is also a professor at the University of the Fraser Valley in Canada, Co-Founder of the Swiss Green Fintech Network and Co-Founder of Extreme Tech Challenge Switzerland.[4]

He did five years of consulting where he was a member of the executive board at ESPRiT Consulting (now Q_Perior) and The Information Management Group.[4]

Thomas graduated with a master's degree in information systems engineering and a PhD in Business informatics engineering from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.[4]

Selected Publications[edit]

  • Puschmann, Thomas, and Marine Huang-Sui. "A taxonomy for decentralized finance." International Review of Financial Analysis 92 (2024): 103083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103083
  • Puschmann, Thomas, and Valentyn Khmarskyi. "Green fintech: Developing a research agenda." Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2675
  • Puschmann, Thomas, and Dario Quattrocchi. "Decreasing the impact of climate change in value chains by leveraging sustainable finance." Journal of Cleaner Production 429 (2023): 139575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139575
  • Cheng, Hsing Kenneth, Daning Hu, Thomas Puschmann, and J. Leon Zhao. "The landscape of Blockchain research: impacts and opportunities." Information Systems and e-Business Management 19, no. 3 (2021): 749–755. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-021-00544-1
  • Rajnak, Viktoria, and Thomas Puschmann. "The impact of blockchain on business models in banking." Information Systems and e-Business Management 19 (2021): 809–861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-020-00468-2
  • Puschmann, Thomas, Christian Hugo Hoffmann, and Valentyn Khmarskyi. "How green FinTech can alleviate the impact of climate change—the case of Switzerland." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (2020): 10691. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410691

External links[edit]

Stanford Homepage of Thomas Puschmann

Google Scholar Publications

References[edit]

  1. ^ "handelzeitung".
  2. ^ "The Innovation Council".
  3. ^ "UZH Blockchain Center".
  4. ^ a b c "Stanford Profiles: Thomas Puschmann".