Kathrin Latsch is the executive director of monneta gGmbH, a journalist and freelance author for reports and documentary films eg for ARTE and NDR. In 2007 she received the Ekotop Film Prize for „International Sustainable Development Film“. In addition, she facilitates events on the topics of economics, education, environment and sustainable finance. Since the finance crisis of 2008 she has been working with the monneta.org network of experts, who advise on, research and develop sustainable monetary systems and social currencies. She developed the ‘environmental card’, an incentive scheme for environmentally friendly behaviour, which won a competition for citizens’ ideas in Hamburg in 2012.
One of her short films „Why diversity in currencies matter“ (2022) shows why currency diversity helps. In times of crisis, inflation, poverty, and inequality rise. But euros are scarce, and the large euro system cannot solve all monetary problems. Complementary currencies supplement the euro, but do not seek to replace it. They are more flexible, smaller, and serve specific purposes, such as promoting the regional economy, communities and environmental protection.
Kathrin Latsch lives in Hamburg and can be reached here: kathrin (at) monneta.org