Bernard Lietaer - Co-Architect of the Euro - Author of the Future of Money - Keynote Speaker at the Future of Money Summit
Speaker: Bernard Lietaer was one of the original architects of the Euro and will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Future of Money Summit. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book, Future of Money, was published in January 2001 and is now available online. His professional background afforded him access to five different (and usually mutually exclusive) hands-on experiences with money systems, listed here in chronological order:
- For multinational corporations, he developed the first models of global currency management;
- He has consulted with developing countries on four different continents about improving hard currency earnings;
- His academic history includes a Professorship of International Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium;
- For five years he was head of the Organization and Planning Department at the Central Bank of Belgium, where he was President of the Electronic Payment System; and
- Finally, in the speculative domain, he served as general manager and currency trader of the most successful offshore currency fund.
