Governance
How groups decide, fund work and hold people to account. My work here: the rules for MakerDAO’s contributor teams, operations for Sky’s capital-allocation entities, and a card deck to teach governance design.
Work
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International AI Governance Map
A map of 38 bodies that shape AI governance across borders, and 146 sourced links between them. A snapshot as of 24 October 2026.
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MakerDAO: Contributor Rules and the SES Incubator
The rules for how MakerDAO’s contributor teams were created, funded and held to account, and an incubator for new teams: eight teams, four voted in as independent Core Units.
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Operations for Sky’s Capital-Allocation Entities
The operations behind Sky’s capital-allocation entities, and later the operating team of a $2.5B capital-allocation mandate.
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Ori: A Knowledge Base Written by AI Agents
An open knowledge base on the Sky ecosystem. AI agents wrote the articles and cited their sources, and a human curator approved each change.
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Governance Cards
A deck of 54 cards about governance design, to teach it in a room.
Talks
2025
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Governance Geeks Hub at Devconnect
Talk Core organizer of the hub; gave a talk with the Governance Cards
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Governance Day at Devconnect (SEEDGov)
Panel Panelist: “AI Governance Panel”
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Zuitzerland Residency
Workshop Resident; ran a Governance Cards workshop
2024
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Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit
Talk Speaker: “Governance Frameworks in MakerDAO”
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Governance @ Web3Montreal
Workshop Ran a Governance Cards workshop
2023
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SEED Latam Governance Day
Workshop Ran a Governance Cards workshop: “Staking the Deck for Governing the Commons”
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Funding the Commons
Workshop Ran a Governance Cards session
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ETH Belgrade
Talk Speaker
DAOs and Governance track, for MakerDAO.
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Web3Tales (Alice in Blockchains)
Talk Speaker
MakerDAO and governance.
2022
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Devcon 6
Panel Panelist: “Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling: How Do We Fund Community and Ecosystem Growth”
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ETHDubai
Talk Speaker, as Co-Founder of the MakerDAO SES Core Unit
2021
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LisCon
Talk Speaker: “How to Scale a DAO”
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HAUS Party Live (DAOhaus)
Talk Speaker, with the SES Co-Founder: “MakerDAO SES Introduction”
2020
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MakerDAO Community Collateral Onboarding Calls
Calls Host
A weekly open call where projects pitched their assets as collateral for Dai. Presenters in 2020 included Aave, Gemini, Balancer, Uniswap, Curve, Crypto.com, Centrifuge, Set Protocol and Enzyme. 14 calls hosted, Sep to Dec 2020, with 9+ founder-level guests.
Notable Calls (9)
- 23 Sep 2020 · Call #9 Aave (Marc Zeller and Stani Kulechov) and Gemini (Tyler Winklevoss)
- 7 Oct 2020 · Call #10 Balancer (Fernando Martinelli) and tBTC (Matt Luongo)
- 14 Oct 2020 · Call #11 RenVM and Uniswap (Hayden Adams)
- 21 Oct 2020 · Call #12 EURS (Gregory Klumov) and Crypto.com
- 22 Oct 2020 · Special Edition Kleros Fellowship (Federico Ast)
- 28 Oct 2020 · Call #14 Curve Finance (Michael Egorov)
- 18 Nov 2020 · Call #16 Set Protocol and Index Coop
- 9 Dec 2020 · Call #20 Enzyme, formerly Melon Protocol (Mona El Isa)
- 16 Dec 2020 · Call #21 Real-world assets: the 2020 wrap-up, with three asset originators
Teaching
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2023 to 2025
Governance Cards Workshops
France, Canada, Switzerland and Argentina
Workshops with the printed deck.