About Bernard Lietaer

Few people have worked in and on the money system in as many different capacities as Bernard Lietaer. He spent five years at the Central Bank in Belgium, where his first project was the design and implementation of the single European currency system. He was president of Belgium's Electronic Payment System, and has developed technologies for multinational corporations to use in managing multiple currency environments. He has helped developing countries improve their hard currency earnings and taught international finance at the University of Louvain, in his native Belgium. Bernard Lietaer was also the general manager and currency trader for one of the largest and most successful offshore currency funds. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resource Development at the University of California at Berkeley.

Links

• Beyond Greed and Scarcity, an article from Yes/Futurenet magazine
• An interview of Bernard Lietaer from the Colorado Holistic Journal (July 2003)
• Access Foundation (Alliance of Complementary Currencies Enabling Sustainable Societies)
• The Future of Money, his reference book
• The Terra: new currency privately with a built-in circulation incentive that could play a significant role in getting the world out of recession. It would systematically stabilize the effects on the business cycle and re-align financial interests with long-term sustainability.
• Power point presentation about the Future of Money from Bernard Lietaer