Sheila brings more than 20 years of experience leading social change efforts at the intersection of technology, law, diversity, civil rights and the Web3 ecosystem.
Warren is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Project Liberty Institute. Previously, she served as the inaugural CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, the premier global alliance advancing crypto innovation worldwide. She co-hosts “Money Reimagined,” a CoinDesk TV show and podcast, is an advisor to the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, serves on the Steering Committee of the DeFi Education Fund, and is an early stage investor in a range of Web3 efforts focused on equity and inclusion.
Earlier in her career, 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.