Alex Gladstein

ResearcherModern

Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, where he leads the Financial Freedom program training activists under authoritarian regimes to use bitcoin when banks and national currencies are turned against them. His book Check Your Financial Privilege documents how people from Cuba to Sudan to Afghanistan use open monetary networks to escape financial repression. Hidden Repression extends the analysis to the IMF and World Bank, tracing how their lending practices deepen currency dependence in poor countries.