Martijn Jeroen van der Linden is researching the digitization of money and structural liberalization reforms in money and banking.

Van der Linden holds a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology and is a Professor of practice in New Finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. In his Ph.D. research, he developed design guidelines for the monetary and financial system in the digital era.

His current research centers around public digital money (called central bank digital currencies, CBDCs by central bankers), stablecoins, deposit banks, cryptocurrencies, financial instability, monetary policy, and the liberalization and re-regulation of banking.

Since the beginning of 2021, he has been collaborating intensively with cartographer Carlijn Kingma and financial investigative journalist Thomas Bollen on ‘The Waterworks of Money’ project. They have developed detailed maps and animations of the current monetary, financial and fiscal system, and possible future scenarios. Their works have been exhibited at various financial institutions, universities, museums and the Venice Biennale, and has won several awards.

In addition, he publishes regularly, engages in public discussions, and gives tens of lectures and keynote speeches annually.

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