Martijn Jeroen van der Linden

Martijn Jeroen van der Linden

Future|Money Awardee, Professor of practice in new finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Martijn Jeroen van der Linden

Martijn Jeroen van der Linden explores the digitization of money and new economic structures. Van der Linden is a professor of New Finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and obtained his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in 2022. In his research, he developed design guidelines for the monetary and financial system in the digital age. Currently, his research focuses on 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. He regularly publishes, participates in public debates, and gives tens of lectures and keynotes a year.

Future|Money Open Studio

FUTURE|MONEY Was the first open grant opportunity for 2023. The goal was to seek artists of any discipline to reimagine outdated financial systems that currently exclude 1.7 billion people from accessing essential services to make and receive payments. Imagining the Future is often based on our own memories and imaginations of our surroundings. We asked the artists to dive into their imagination …

Future|Money Open Studio Day 2

FUTURE|MONEY Was the first open grant opportunity for 2023. The goal was to seek artists of any discipline to reimagine outdated financial systems that currently exclude 1.7 billion people from accessing essential services to make and receive payments. Imagining the Future is often based on our own memories and imaginations of our surroundings. We asked the artists to dive into their imagination …

The Waterworks of Money and Future Scenarios for the Monetary System

The Waterworks of Money is a metaphorical representation of our money system, made by cartographer Carlijn Kingma, financial journalist Thomas Bollen, and professor New Finance Martijn Jeroen van der Linden. The Waterworks of Money is an artistic attempt to demystify the financial world, boost ‘systemic financial literacy’ and explore alternative future architectures of the monetary system. The…