New Editor

The International Journal of Community Currency Research welcomes its new Editor, Dr. Jens Martignoni.

Jens Martignoni was born 1963, trained as an engineer at the Technikum Winterthur, Switzerland, has an MBA in Nonprofit-Management from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland and a PhD in Cooperative Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a lecturer and senior researcher at ZHAW the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland. He has been working for many years on the development of alternative economic forms and better organizational models for currencies and new money systems. He is the author of the book “Das Geld neu erfinden” (reinventing money) and investigated and invented on complementary and community currencies since 1992.

He has published in the IJCCR: “A new approach to a typology of complementary currencies” and other articles.