Donna Redel
Board Member
Donna Redel is a businesswoman, a professor of blockchain-digital assets, an angel investor and a philanthropist. She was the managing director of The World Economic Forum, the foremost global organization combining business, political, academic, and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Ms. Redel was the first woman to chair a USA exchange , The Commodity Exchange. Following her work in global organizations, Ms. Redel began a second career as a New York City based advisor and investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain and emerging technologies. She is an active participant in the startup community with New York Angels, serving as a board member , the co-chair of the Blockchain Committee and the Israeli Investment Committee and chair of the Education Committee. Ms . Redel developed and is teaching at Fordham Law School two courses, one on Blockchain-Crypto Currencies-Digital Assets and the other on DeFI and Smart Contracts. Highlights of Donna’s committee memberships are the NYS Committee for the Advancement in Women’s Leadership in Financial Services , the MoMA Photography Committee, a Board Member of The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance , The focus of her public service efforts are the arts, heath and promoting women’s leadership. She has a J.D. from Fordham Law School, an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from Barnard College (Columbia).
