Bernard Lietaer is an economist and author who was one of the designers of the Euro. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from the creation of new "concurrent currencies". The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ... A monetary system secures the proper functioning of money by regulating economic agents, transaction types, and money supply. ...

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. The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational...

He is the inventor of an alternative currency called the "Terra".

External links

• An interview with Bernard Lietaer
• Community Currencies: A New Tool for the 21st Century
• Another interview with Bernard Lietaer
• A discussion about these interviews
• Excerpts from his book, "The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World"