Christian Koch is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Dual Master of Archival Sciences & Library Information Studies program with a focus in innovative technologies. His research interests focus on how distributed ledger technologies can be leveraged for real world change and social good while incorporating information governance and archival best practices to better safeguard the integrity of records generated by those systems. He is currently the Systems Analyst & research assistant at Landano, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project seeking to empower land owners in Ghana and Mozambique to prove ownership of land by formalizing customary land allocation processes.

With work experience navigating diverse land administration systems, research competencies, and an academic background in information governance, Christian provide a unique perspective and value add to projects developing systems within the HLP domain.

Christian is familiar with several project management and agile methodologies. In his current system analyst role he has worked closely with the design team to test user interfaces for inconsistencies and have run culturally-informed quality checks on many user facing system elements.