Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Jonathan Ledgard, Financial Innovation

Who: Jonathan Ledgard, a book author and former foreign and war correspondent for The Economist, is Co-founder and CEO, Tehanu-Interspecies Money, a venture that seeks to build a new digital infrastructure that would allow many species to participate in the human market economy. He was a speaker at the September 12-13-DLD Nature conference in Munich organized by Burda Media,

Topic: Interspecies money and the innovations in the global financial system needed to underpin it.

Quote: “We need to develop an economic system that is equitable for other species and recognize the value of things that will exist longer than our lifetime.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.