About Concentric Complementary Currency Consulting
We welcome collaboration with others working in this field, see our Consultant's page to register. The Concentric Network Economy Consutling team is facilitated by Stephen DeMeulenaere, with extensive international consulting and collaboration experience with other leading practitioners in this cutting edge branch of new economics. Stephen has worked in worked in many countries in North America, Europe and Africa with a recent focus on Asia.

Third from left, Stephen spoke on the Panel Discussion at the
International Conference on Monetary Regionalization, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. (September 2006)
Public Speaking Engagements
May 16, 2007 , San Francisco , California. Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) . University of California at Berkeley . Pre-Conference Speaker and Panel Discussion Member
September 28-29, 2006 , Weimar , Germany. International Conference on Monetary Regionalisation Bauhaus University, Faculty of Architecture and Regional Planning. Guest Speaker and Final Panel Discussion member.
November 15-30, 2005 , Dakar , Senegal. International Conference on the Economy of Solidarity . RIPESS, the International Network for the Promotion of the Economy of Solidarity; Alliance21 for a Plural, Responsible and United World, and FPH, the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind. Representative of Alliance21 Social Money workshop and Presenter.
October 15-17, 2004 , Hong Kong , China. Community Economy Forum . Oxfam Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong . Guest Speaker.
April 20, 2004 . Bangkok , Thailand. Thammasat University , Faculty of Public Administration . Guest Lecturer.
January 16-21, 2004 , Mumbai , India. World Social Forum . Workshop and Seminar organizer, Presenter.
Nov. 10-15, 2003 , Paris , France. European Social Forum . Presenter.
March 9 2001 , June 7 2002 . Jakarta , Indonesia. University of Indonesia , Faculty of Psychology, MA Program on Social and Economic Intervention. Guest Lecturer.
Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 1999, Buenos Aires , Argentina. Founding Conference of the Latin American Socio-Economic Solidarity Network . University of Buenos Aires. Presenter.
Publications
Stephen has published over 25 articles in 6 languages in academic journals, magazines and books, and many more in the library on his website at www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php . Here are a few examples:
Der Herstellungsprozess von Tabu, Traditioneller “Muschel” Geldwahrung, Ost-Neubritannien, Papua Neuguinea (The Process of Producing Tabu – Traditional Shell Currency, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea). Der Primitivegeldsammler, Issue 27, January 2006. European Union to Search For, Collect, and Preserve Primitive and Curious Money (EUCOPRIMO), Landau , Germany . 2006.
Les Systèmes de Monnaie Complémentaire : des pratiques anciennes à une réponse moderne au problème de l'exclusion (Complementary Money Systems : from ancient origins to a modern response to the problem of social and economic exclusion). Exclusion et Liens Financiers : Monnaies Sociales. University of Lyon, Centre Walras. Economica Publishers, Paris, 2006.
Editor, English Translation of Poor Because of Money . Strohalm Foundation , Netherlands , 2004.http://www.strohalm.org/materials/
Co-Author with Bernard Lietaer, Sustaining Cultural Vitality in a Globalizing World: The Balinese Example . International Journal of Social Economics , Vol. 30, Issue 9, 2003.
Co-Author with Ngatidjo, Djuneidi Saripurnawan & Juni Thamrin. Kapasitas Ekonomi Lokal: Studi Penjajagan Penguatan Ekonomi Local Dengal Community Currency Systems . ( Local Economic Capacity: Field Study of Strengthening Local Economies with Community Currency Systems ). Puskopdit Bekatigade & Yappika. 180 Pages. Yogyakarta , Indonesia , 2001.
Reinventing the Market: Alternative Currencies & Community Development in Argentina , International Journal of Community Currency Research . University of Leicester , England . 2000.
Towards an Economy in the Hands of the People: Study of the Tianguis Tlaloc Local Currency System in Mexico City . International Development Research Centre . Ottawa , Canada . 1999.
Off the Hook: How Local Currency and Microcredit Systems Work , New Internationalist Magazine , London , England , 1998.
An Overview of Parallel, Local and Community Currency Systems in Asia, Africa and Latin America , 100 pages. Self-Published at http://www.appropriate-economics.org . 1997. |