Henk van Arkel

Description

Henk van Arkel is CEO of the Social Trade Organisation (STRO). In the 30 years of his STRO leadership, the organization expanded to an internationally operating organization with offices in Brazil, Uruguay, and the Netherlands and with an award winning software department. Van Arkel was responsible for successful projects of STRO in the Netherlands, UK, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador.
An important quality Van Arkel demonstrates in both his work and in his books and publications is his capacity to think out of the box and find solutions where others do not.
Henk van Arkel developed several innovations to make money serve society better, some of these piloted in the Digipay4Growth projects such as the Sardex network in Sardinia and the Circular Money Cooperative in the Netherlands that are now ready for scaling.
Henk van Arkel dedicates his life to the realization of his longtime dream: to contribute to a behavior of money as a system, to make use of the organizational function of money in the economy to provides better opportunities for the poor and reduce the stress on the environment.