Bill Maurer
individual
About
William M. Maurer is an American anthropologist and academic leader focused on money, finance, payments, financial inclusion, and related technologies. He serves as dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine and founded the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at UCI. His work spans Islamic finance, mobile money, alternative currencies, and cryptocurrencies, positioning him as a research and policy influencer rather than an investor.
Areas of interest
anthropology of financemoneypaymentsfinancial inclusionmobile moneyfintechIslamic financealternative currenciescryptocurrenciesblockchaineconomic anthropologyconsumer finance