Bernard Lietaer is currently a Research Fellow at the 
Center for Sustainable 
Resources of the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book on 
the Future of 
Money, about which a free online 
conference has coalesced, was published in January 2001 and is now available online. (For a German version, see http://www.futuremoney.de/.)
His professional background afforded him access to five different (and 
usually mutally 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.
  
 
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