Neha Narula selected for Rockefeller Foundation's 2025 Bellagio Center Residency

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy

Neha Narula, Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), has been selected for the Rockefeller Foundation's 2025 Bellagio Center Residency.  In participating in this prestigious fellowship, she will join the ranks of such alumni as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Maya Angelou. "Coming from all over the world and representing a wide cross-section of expertise, these residents are some of the most ambitious, innovative, and committed leaders of our time," says the residency program on its website. During the residency, each fellow works on a project that will advance a breakthrough in their field. Neha’s project will apply distributed systems theory to monetary and payment systems, taking a computer science approach to money as a system.