His professional background afforded him access to five different (and usually mutally exclusive) hands-on experiences with money systems, listed here in chronological order:

• For multinational corporations, he developed the first models of global currency management;

• He has consulted with developing countries on four different continents about improving hard currency earnings;

• His academic history includes a Professorship of International Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium;

• For five years he was head of the Organization and Planning Department at the Central Bank of Belgium, where he was President of the Electronic Payment System; and

• Finally, in the speculative domain, he served as general manager and currency trader of the most successful offshore currency fund.

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