Cessiah Lopez

Cessiah Lopez is an Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

She has worked for multiple industries such as International Trade and Investment for the Philippine Embassy. Cessiah has also grown and developed multiple small businesses as a serial entrepreneur, and is a committed philanthropist.

Holding an LLM from the University of East Anglia, her thesis focused on the applicability of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) to modern e-commerce. She has since worked as an Operations and Strategist for crypto and web3-based projects and is a recent ex-Founder at Entrepreneur First.

Cessiah’s work lies at the intersection of law, web3, and startups, where she places significant emphasis on the importance of social impact and social mobility. Now, she is a Crypto Research Fellow for VentureESG, working to make ESG a standard part of due diligence for VCs in the web3 space.