Professor Richard A. Werner - Interview - Mallorca Blockchain Days

Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon), is an LSE and Oxford-educated economist, Professor of Banking and Finance at De Montfort University, UK. Professor Werner is an expert in money, banking, central banking and high growth economic systems. He is also a proponent of decentralised finance via community banking. As founding director of Local First Community Interest Company he is engaged in promoting the establishment of local not-for-profit (but profitable) community banks that lend to SMEs and boost productivity.

In 1991, Professor Werner warned of the coming banking crisis and depression in Japan. In 1995 he proposed a new policy to end banking crises which he called ‘Quantitative Easing’. His book ‘Princes of the Yen’, on central banking, was a top bestseller in Japan in 2001. The 2003 English edition warned of the coming credit bubbles, banking crises and recessions. His 2005 book ‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ (Palgrave Macmillan) presents reality-based economics. His academic research is among the most downloaded scientific work in the world (see www.professorwerner.org).

Previously, he was professor of banking at the University of Southampton, Professor of Economics at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Assistant Professor of Economics at Tokyo’s Sophia University, chief economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. in Tokyo, for over a decade member of the ECB Shadow Council, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asset Management in London, and a member of the asset allocation committee of TelWel, a multi-billion dollar Japanese corporate pension fund. Earlier, he was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan, European Commission Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar at the Ministry of Finance, Japan, and the first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan.

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This interview was taken at the Mallorca Blockchain Days 2022
Interview Team: Thanks to Alyssa, Veronika and Aliska.