19th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2023

Alphecca Muttardy

Contact info: 5155 Summit Dr., Fairfax, Va. 22030 USA; amuttardy@gmail.com; Landline: (703) 931-2616; Cell: (703) 341-9331 (As of September, 2023). Macroeconomic assessment of the United States economy, including the development of a major policy initiative to finance unmet infrastructure needs while promoting job creation and economic growth....

Eric Encina

Country: PH

Eric V. Encina is an a Filipino Practical Christian, And ecumenical/Non-Sectarian Freelance Writer / Author–Of The Living Remnant & His Family On Monetary Reform policy, Organic / Permaculture Farming Advocate, Wild Food Forager, and an independent natural health organic farming advocate in support of the new science of ecological economics...

Frans Verhagen

Frans Verhagen is a Dutch-American sustainability sociologist with a Ph.D. in the sociology of international development, and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. In the sixties he worked as a missionary priest in Ghana. In 2009 he founded the International Institute for Monetary Transformation and is now pursuing the...

Georg Schmerzeck

Georg is a Ph.D. Candidate in Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses on the ethical evaluation of monetary systems in ideal and non-ideal theory. It assesses whether existing monetary institutions are justifiable or in need of reform, and clarifies the advantages and drawbacks of various...

Govert Schuller

Govert Schuller is a Dutch-American author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti, Theosophy and philosophy. He studied philosophy in the Netherlands and studied under the Heidegger scholar Theodore Kisiel at Northern Illinois University. He has a masters degree from the University of Wales on the topic of narrative identity theory and is now a...

Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is a Tennessee architect working in eco-friendly building methods and builds energy efficient, healthy, homes and has presented at the International Materials Research Congress. He is a founding member and was co-chair of the Green Party of Tennessee 2002-2003, serving many terms on the Green Party’s National Committee as a...

Jakob Feinig

Jakob Feinig is a sociologist who interrogates the historically changing politics of money creation in British colonial America and the United States. In a series of articles and a book (Moral Economies of Money, Stanford University Press), he shows how that for centuries, large groups understood money creation as a political practice and...

Joe Bongiovanni

Joe Bongiovanni is a second-generation monetary reformer, Co-founder and Director of the Kettle Pond Institute (KPI) in Vermont, a Co-founder and Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM) of Bloomington, IL, and a Member of the Green Party U.S. Banking and Monetary Reform Committee...

Joseph Huber

Joseph Huber is Professor emeritus of economic and environmental sociology, Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is the founder of the monetary reform organization Monetative e.V. Berlin and is the editor and main author of the web site

Kiril Bojiloff

Kiril was born in Bulgaria, studied Business Administration in Germany, and worked in Switzerland. His jobs, among others, were 15 years with financial services companies (insurance, venture capital, private equity, bank), 10 of which with Credit Suisse in the quantitative analysis in the credit risk management. He left the bank few years before...

Michael Hudson

I have known Steve Zarlenga for many years, going back to before he organized the AMI. We were introduced by Nic Tideman. Steve showed me his wonderful article countering Carl Menger’s barter theory of money. I urged him to make this the first chapter of his Lost Science of Money, because the conflict between the Barter Theory and the State...

Nick Egnatz

When I first read that our money was created out of thin air by banks when they made loans, I began a desperate search to find out if this could possibly be true. As a Vietnam vet, turned into a peace, social justice and environmental activist, I needed answers. It was probably about fourteen years ago that I fortuitously came across the American...

Randy Cook (USA)

Randy Cook has operated a fruit farm in Charlotte, Michigan, since 1975. Over the last ten years production techniques have focused on eliminating synthetic fertilizers and pesticides while increasing freshness and nutritional quality. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree, with honor, and a provisional teaching certificate for high school...

Robert Hockett

Hockett is the Edward Cornell Endowed Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York; Annual Visiting Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Faculty of Law in Paris, France; and Senior Counsel with Westwood Capital Group in New York City. His principal interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics...

Sam Hummel

Sam Hummel is a graduate student in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program at Duke University. His research focuses on pathways for monetary system transformation that advance sustainability and social equity. Sam worked for 10 years for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, which benchmarked hundreds of...

Samuel Färdow Kazen

Samuel Färdow Kazen is the chairman of the association for Digital Democracy and works for Positiva Pengar in Sweden. He has a master's degree in practical philosophy, but has studied cognitive science, psychology, statistics, philosophy, political science and anthropology as well. Samuel has written a report about the monetary system for the...

Steven Walsh

Steven Walsh’s background is primarily in anthropology and education. He has a working knowledge of Spanish and has lived with indigenous people of Alaska. In Alaska, he taught and wrote Alaskan heritage curriculum. In 1985 he came back to Chicago and spent the next 30 years as a curriculum coordinator for Chicago Public Schools and as a School...

Sue Peters

Sue Peters has degrees in History and Education and was an information technologist specializing in finance. Having spent 35 years on Wall Street, the last 15 at a multinational bank, she has an insiders knowledge of the relationship between Wall Street and money. She gave a public in-depth class on the book, The Lost Science of Money, by Stephen...

Sumal Raj

Sumal Raj is an electrical engineer with a diploma from Central Polytechnic, Trivandrum, and with a degree from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum. He pursued further to learn Control Systems Engineering and also has Master's degrees in Human Resources Management, and Economics. Beyond academics, he is a ‘right to information’ activist and...

William Ruddick

William "Will" Ruddick is a trailblazing development economist with a background in high-energy physics, who has dedicated over a decade to empowering East African communities through innovative and indigenous economic models. Founder of the award-winning Sarafu-Network and Bangla-Pesa programs, Will has pioneered Community Asset Vouchers and...

Young Sik Kim

Young Sik Kim is an independent thinker, learner and writer about the monetary system since 2001. He is now 72 years old and had moved to Canada from Korea at age 45. In Korea he had a career in the field of life insurance (v.p. of ManuLife Korea; Head of New York Office of Samsung Life Ins. co.). In Canada hew was the sales manager of Canada...