Jón Egilsson

Co-founder and Chairman at Monerium

Jon is a Co-founder and Chairman of Monerium, the first company to issue fiat onchain. Prior to this, he served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank's Supervisory Board from 2013 to 2017. He was appointed to reinstate the economy after the Icelandic financial crisis. Jon has also been involved in the cryptocurrency industry since 2012. Back then he developed a model to estimate the power consumption and profitability of mining Bitcoin. When Ethereum was launched, he recognized its potential to revolutionise finance and co-founded Monerium after six months of research. Throughout his career, Jon has held leadership positions in various financial, innovation, and IT companies. Jon holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a master's degree in engineering. He is a former adjunct professor at Reykjavik University and lectured at the University of Iceland in the economics and engineering departments. Additionally, Jon was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. Fun fact: Jon wrote the all time most read paper on “Journal of Applied Economics”.