Patrick J. Schena
Patrick J. Schena covers crypto for Fortune, using his background in sovereign wealth funds and global capital markets to frame digital assets in the context of public investment and long-term economic change. He is BLR Professor of Practice in the Department of Economics at Tufts University and holds additional appointments in international business and finance that keep his reporting grounded in institutional practice and policy. His work stands out for treating new technologies and asset classes as issues of governance, capital allocation, and social impact rather than narrow market speculation.
AI, labor displacement, and public wealth
In his commentary on artificial intelligence and the labor market, Schena focuses on how large-scale technological shifts affect workers and the distribution of economic gains. In one recent Fortune piece, he examines warnings from Nobel laureates about AI-driven job displacement and connects those concerns to broader questions of who owns and benefits from the technologies reshaping the economy. He highlights the idea of using a national investment fund as a mechanism to share returns from AI across the population, treating public wealth vehicles as a policy lever rather than a purely financial instrument.
The analysis blends macroeconomic risk, social justice, and institutional design, showing how debates over AI and automation intersect with the structures that manage public capital.
Sovereign wealth funds and global capital markets
Schena brings deep expertise in sovereign wealth funds and state investors to his coverage of crypto and other emerging asset classes.
Across his professional work, he studies how sovereign investors allocate capital, manage risk, and shape global markets, with particular attention to governance standards and long-horizon investment strategies. His research and advisory roles include detailed reviews of how sovereign wealth funds apply principles meant to ensure transparency, accountability, and sound investment practice, which inform his perspective on regulatory and policy debates. When he writes about financial innovation, he tends to ask how these funds will respond, what constraints they face, and how their choices reverberate through global capital flows.
Institutional investment, infrastructure, and governance standards
Beyond financial markets in the abstract, Schena has written extensively on the social impacts of direct infrastructure investment by institutional and sovereign investors.
His work examines how large public and quasi-public funds participate in infrastructure projects, the frameworks they use to evaluate social and economic outcomes, and the governance structures that oversee these investments. He has contributed independent reviews of sovereign wealth fund practices against the Santiago Principles, giving him a granular view of how funds implement global best-practice standards and how those standards evolve over time.
This focus on infrastructure, standards, and accountability shapes his approach to stories about new technologies and asset classes, where he looks for the mechanisms that connect investment decisions to real-world social and economic effects.
Crypto through the sovereign investor lens
On the crypto beat, Schena approaches digital assets as part of a broader shift in how institutional and sovereign investors navigate innovation, risk, and regulation. He is interested in how crypto sits alongside traditional asset classes in large portfolios, how governance codes and principles adapt to new forms of risk, and how public wealth vehicles might engage with or respond to digital assets. Rather than centering retail trading or short-term price moves, his coverage is distinguished by its focus on policy frameworks, institutional behavior, and the distributional consequences of financial innovation for workers and citizens.
For communications teams, he is relevant when a story touches crypto and AI, but also when it raises questions about sovereign wealth strategy, global capital flows, or the social impact of large-scale investment decisions.
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Allie Garfinkle
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Anastasia Chernikova
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Anushka Basu
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