Thomas H. (Tom) Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, writer, networker, and consultant, who, for almost three decades, has been working at the leading edge of transformational restructuring. A former college professor, he is currently Director of the non-profit Community Information Resource Center, a networking hub, which provides information access and administrative support for efforts in community improvement, social justice, and sustainability.
He is regarded as one of the leading experts in monetary theory and history, credit clearing systems, complementary currencies, and community economic development, He is a patron and contributor to Fourth World Review and has written for a wide range of other journals including, The Whole Earth Review, World Business Academy Perspectives, At Work, Earth Island Journal, The Catholic Worker, The Permaculture Activist, Permaculture Drylands Journal, Green Revolution, and other publications.
He has authored three books:
His latest book on complementary currencies and exchange systems, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, was published by Chelsea Green Publishers in 2001. New Money for Healthy Communities (1994) describes voluntary alternatives to conventional money that empower communities and reward people fairly; Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis (1990) explains how conventional money malfunctions and how an ideal money would be structured.
He was the organizer of the Fourth World Assembly and New Economics Symposium held in San Francisco in 1987. He was the keynote speaker at the conference on Sustainability: From Vision to Practice, held at Sirius Community In 1998, and was a Forum Leader for the Radical Consultation Forum on Globalization, Money & Trade held in Swindon, UK in 2001.
He has traveled widely in Europe, South America, and Asia, lecturing, networking, and teaching. In September of 2005 he taught English to first year graduate students at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. In 2006, he was a presenter at the conference on Knowledge, Business and Consciousness held at the international community of Auroville, India.
He was the keynote speaker at the 2006 annual convention of the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA), the trade association for the commercial "barter" industry.
He was honored to be a resident in October 2006 of the Mesa Refuge writer's retreat in Point Reyes, CA where he continued work on his next book.
In 2007, he completed a world tour that included numerous presentations
including:
He also assisted in the organization of a Bioregional Economic Development program for southeast India based at Auroville.
Mr. Greco holds an MBA (Business Administration) from the University of Rochester and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Villanova University. He spent a year in residence doing doctoral study in Management, and Instructional Technology at Syracuse University. His work experience includes 5 years as an aerospace engineer and 14 years in academia, mainly at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he held a tenured faculty position. His expertise includes monetary theory, complementary currency and exchange systems, computer applications, statistical analysis, and survey research.