User:Willruddick

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Community Currency Pioneer, Physicist, Founder Grassroots Economics Will Ruddick is a development specialist focusing on East Africa. He is dedicated to connecting communities to their own abundance, and is an advocate for, and designer of, Complementary and Community Currencies for poverty eradication and sustainable development. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he found his passion in alternative economics and development work which brought him to Africa. Since 2008 Will has lived in East Africa and managed several successful development programs in environment, food security and economic development as the Country Director for Green World Campaign. Will has been developing Community Currency programs in Kenya since 2010 and is the founder of the award winning Bangla-Pesa program which has inspired similar programs across Africa through his FOundation - Grassroots Economics. Will is also an associate scholar with the University of Cumbria’s Institute for Leadership and Sustainability and University of Cape Town's Economics Department.