Emily Parker is an author and expert on global crypto regulation, particularly in the US and Asia. She was CoinDesk's executive director of global strategy. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Emily has lived in China and Japan and speaks Chinese and Japanese.