Coordinator
Administrator of Victoria LETS from 1992-1997. Asia Program Coordinator of the Strohalm Foundation, based in Bali, Indonesia (Credit Union/CC System in Yogyakarta, and assist efforts in Thailand, Hong Kong, Philippines and other countries in Asia as coordinator of Strohalm's Worldwide Helpdesk for Complementary Currency Systems).
> www.complementarycurrency.org
> www.appropriate-economics.org.

Academic with a strong interest in complementary currencies. In 1994 published the first ever empirical study of a LETS, and since then studied Time Banks, micro-credit, and other community-based social-economic initiatives for sustainable development.

Joined South Africa's first LETS group in 1993. Administrator and chief programmer of the SANE Community Exchange System (CES), the first international CC network. This is becoming a huge project and very pioneering because we are building a new model that has no precedent.

Community development work in the University of Newport and co-founder of the Wales Institute for Community Currencies (WICC). Is working mainly on time banks for young people, time banks in adult learning, community and arts centres run on time, currency design typology and tool, international links to Sri Lanka.

DJapanese Ph.D. student who has been working on the research of complementary currency systems since 1999 and founder of ccPedia, a website similar to Wikipedia focused on this movement and of the Multilingual Complementary Currency Discussion Group, published two introductory books in Japanese as well as other articles. Currently working to network actors of this domain, especially those between different cultures, to help those who don’t share a language communicate each other.

MscEcon. in International Development. Member of the Schumacher Society. Organized the 2004 Bard conference on CCs. Is working at the implementation of BerkShares. Chairman of the Fund For Complementary Currencies of the Rudolph Steiner Foundation.

Annette Riggs is a founder/board member and the Executive Director of Current Innovations (CI), a non-profit, public benefit corporation. She has over 20 years experience and in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure and processes of non-cash trade, complementary currency and exchange systems. She is an educator and conference speaker, including, Industrial Ecology 2000, Health and Harmony Festival, Planetwork 2003 and 2004, 2004 Green Festival and the 2005 and 2006 International Balle Conferences.
> http://www.currentinnovations.org.

Is currently working with the Wales Institute for Community Currencies, developing, testing and researching models of time currency that celebrate and increase levels of active citizenship in communities.