Katharina Serafimova

Katharina Serafimova is a social entrepreneur who lives her dream to co-create projects to re-connect nature, money and community. As a speaker and moderator, she facilitates events and processes that enable the transitions towards a value- and needs-based paradigm. After graduating from environmental natural sciences at ETH Zürich in 2004, she entered the corporate world. In 2010 she graduated with a Master of Advanced Studies in Business Communication and decided to “change sides” and work for an NGO to translate sustainability into the finance sector. Since 2014 she is lecturing at the Institute of Banking and Finance at University of Zürich. She was a presenter and panelist at the 2018 Swiss conference “Our Money, Our Banks, Our Country – Money Creation in the Modern Economy” pleading in favor of the Swiss monetary reform referendum. Recently Katharina delivered the keynote adress at the Just Money Festival organized by the Alliance For Just Money.

The title of her presentation with Arie Ben-David is "Beyond Chicago Plan, CBDC, Blockchain and UBI: A resource based monetary ecosystem of the commons".