Anna Laycock: The Power in our Hands: Breaking the Myths about Money
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Anna Laycock: The Power in Our Hands: Breaking the Myths About Money

Video with Anna Laycock on Tuesday 6th June 2017

Talk given by Anna Laycock at the Advaya event Alternative Economies: The Banks, The Myths & The Earth, 6 June 2017.

Talk given by Anna Laycock at the Advaya event Alternative Economies: The Banks, The Myths & The Earth, 6 June 2017.

ANNA LAYCOCK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE FINANCE INNOVATION LAB

Anna leads the Finance Innovation Lab’s work for a financial system that serves people and planet. The Lab incubates the people and ideas with the potential to positively disrupt finance: innovators developing new business models, campaigners changing the rules of the game, and professionals seeking to change the system from the inside out.

Anna is an Associate of the St Paul’s Institute, a Trustee of the Just Finance Foundation, an Associate of the Institute for Social Banking, and a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). She has been a judge for the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards and Young Banker of the Year, and in 2017 she was recognised as one of the leading Women in Social Enterprise and on the Women in Fintech Powerlist.

Prior to joining the Lab, Anna worked in sustainable finance in the UK and internationally. She has previously worked in international development, campaigning, impact assessment, and community development. She holds an MSc in Global Ethics and has written for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, Stir to Action, Pioneers Post and the New Statesman. @anna_luise www.financeinnovationlab.org

About the event:
We all know that our current economic system isn’t working. It is an economy based on ravaging the Earth’s finite resources and on immense social injustice. To ensure a more democratic, sustainable and prosperous future we need to look to radical, ethical solutions that go beyond the debt-growth trap. We need to find an economic system where ecological sustainability, social justice, and financial stability go hand in hand: an economy that meets the needs of all, not just the privileged few, and allows us to thrive.

At this event we were joined by David Clarke from Positive Money and Anna Laycock from The Finance Innovation Lab to get your head around our economic and banking systems. We brought questions and concerns to learn more about the role we can play as individuals in turning the tide.

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Anna leads the Finance Innovation Lab’s work for a financial system that serves people and planet

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