Mercina Tillemann-Dick currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Global BlockchainBusiness Council (GBBC). Experienced in strategic planning and communications, she has spenther career translating complex ideas for broad audiences in the public and private sectors.Tillemann-Dick has advised state and national governments on issues involving public health andyouth. Whether crafting pandemic plans for the City of Houston, initiating paradigm-shiftingpublic health legislation or introducing and organizing the TED conference at Yale, Tillemann-Dickis used to building things from the ground up. While working with Janssen’s Global Public HealthGroup, she drafted congressional testimony, authored publications and spearheaded multiplepublic information initiatives. She has worked in the offices of the former Speaker of the U.S.House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and for the Human Rights Commission of the U.S.Congress. In 2013, Tillemann-Dick co-founded A Curated Dialogue, a consultancy dedicated tosharing and shaping ideas through precise and approachable media. She has a degree inBioethics, Political Science and Law from Yale University.