Welcome
Hi, I’m Michel – a researcher, advisor, and educator exploring the curious world of money, credit, and alternative finance.
I’m particularly interested in how proven tools and mechanisms from banking and traditional finance can be repurposed to help build non-extractive, localised, and resilient economies; as well as commons-based models that de-commodify essential resources and services by placing them under collective stewardship.
Currently
- Paradigma: an independent consulting firm providing research, advisory, and education on alternative monetary and financial systems design.
- Commons Lab: a non-profit developing robust commons models for key provisioning sectors across economic, legal, and social dimensions.
- Growing the Commons: a collaborative project for advancing commons that comprises a Substack blog, a wiki-powered knowledge base, and a forum.
Before this, I led digital assets research at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (University of Cambridge Judge Business School). More on the Work page.
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Published: 2025-11-24
Last updated: 2026-04-08