Bruce Cahan is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University's Department of Management Science & Engineering, a Lecturer in Stanford's Institute for Design (the d.school), a Faculty Affiliate of Stanford's Center for Human Rights & International Justice, a CodeX Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Legal Informatics.
Bruce's research interests range from building a Periodic Table of Quality of Life using government finance data, to investigating financing mechanisms for the space economy.
Independent of Stanford, Bruce is an Ashoka Fellow creating GoodBank(TM)(io), as a teaching hospital bank for high-transparency, impacts-aware financial services, to shift the culture of banks and bankers and other fintech innovations.
Bruce was trained as an international finance lawyer at Weil Gotshal & Manges (10 years) and managing director at a Hong Kong-based merchant bank (2 years). As a social entrepreneur, Bruce acquired skills as a government technologist, emergency responder and someone who enjoys reconnecting meaning to how the world works.
Bruce graduated The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics & International Business 1976) and Temple Law School (J.D. 1979), and was admitted to practice law in California (2006), New York (1980) and Pennsylvania (1980).
