Ben Delo is a British entrepreneur, mathematician and philanthropist. He is a major donor to a number of causes, including maths education, neurodiversity, the Commonwealth and organisations or individuals that support rationalism and free thinking. Before pivoting to focus on his philanthropy, Ben co-founded BitMEX, the world’s first crypto-currency derivatives trading platform. He is acknowledged as the primary architect of the platform’s flagship “bitcoin-dollar perpetual swap,” which was characterized in Bloomberg as “one of the most important financial innovations to come out of the crypto space”. Before this Ben developed high-frequency trading systems at the innovative hedge-fund GSA Capital and global investment bank J.P. Morgan, prior to which Ben worked as a software engineer at IBM, where he was granted patents for several inventions. Ben graduated from the University of Oxford in 2005 with a double first-class honors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. In recognition of Ben’s work in computing and his philanthropy, Ben’s Oxford alma mater, Worcester College, made him an honorary fellow in 2018.