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  • Dr Katharina Lasota Heller
    President
    Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association

ABOUT

Dr. Katharina Lasota Heller has over 20 years of experience in IT, IP and FinTech law. Founding Partner of LEXcellence–Swiss Law Firm in Baar (Zug). President of Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association. Founding Member of Polish Professional Women in Switzerland.

Dr. Lasota deals with issues related to Blockchain, FinTech, NFTs and Metaverse on daily basis. As visiting professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw she lectures on Blockchain, IP and Technology Law; attorney at law admitted to practice in Switzerland and in Poland.

Kasia received the doctoral degree in 2003 from Ludwig Maximilian University as a scholar of the Max-Planck Institute in Munich. She is an alumnus of McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento California, where she finished her LL.M. Studies in 2004. Over the years, she has worked for several large law firms in Munich, Warsaw and Vienna. Between 2010 and 2015 led a global compliance program of a South African Company and was President of EDiMA.

Katharina is passionate about economic disruption and data driveneconomy.

Wife, mother of a teenage daughter, she loves hiking in the Swiss Alpes, occasionally plays golf.