AUTHORS: Bernard Lietaer

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The late Bernard Lietaer was an international expert in the design and implementation of currency systems. He studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years in a wide range of roles including:
  • Central Banker 
  • Fund manager 
  • University professor 
  • Consultant to governments in numerous countries, multinational corporations, and community organisations. 
He co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism to the single European currency system (the Euro) and served as president of the Electronic Payment System at the National Bank of Belgium (the Belgian Central Bank). He co-founded and managed GaiaCorp, a top performing currency fund whose profits funded investments in environmental projects.

A former professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, he also taught at Sonoma State University and Naropa University. He was latterly a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley, and a Visiting Professor at the Finance University under the auspices of the Russian Federation in Moscow. He was also a member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Business Academy, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He wrote widely on money systems and regional currencies. 
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