Dilin Massand is an Associate Talent Booker for CoinDesk TV, where he is responsible for pitching and booking guest interviews, as well as producing segments for daily news and special events programming. Massand graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs and a minor in Media Arts and Culture. He received the 2021 Young Award for Most Innovative Thesis from the Diplomacy and World Affairs department for his research on settler colonialism in big tech. Massand developed a keen interest in emerging markets having grown up between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. He holds several cryptocurrencies below CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold.