Thomas Siderius is a researcher working at the City of Amsterdam, for the Community Wealth Building team in the Nieuw-West district. This approach places a strong focus on the local circulation of money flows and the creation of a more resilient local economy, enabled by democratic ownership and progressive procurement.
Additionally, he is a PhD candidate at Drift (Dutch Research Institute For Transitions, Erasmus University), researching the transformative potential of local currency systems. In other words: how does a local payment system influence the fundamental dynamics of a (local/regional) economy? In what ways do they contribute to social and economic transitions, and what can we learn from existing examples?
Thomas is a structuralist and systems thinker: always seeking new ideas that challenge the foundations of the current economic model and inspiring examples of alternative currencies or other ‘system bridges.’
