Paolo Dini (PhD Aerospace Engineering, Penn State, 1990) taught undergraduate physics and worked as a wind energy consultant in the US, and was a Principal Scientist at Philips Research Laboratories, UK, and at MIT Media Lab Europe, Dublin. In 2003, he joined the LSE Department of Media and Communications to lead EU projects on ICTs and SME-led socio-economic development. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the University of Hertfordshire School of Computer Science. Since 2010, he has been working on complementary currencies for sustainable development and collaborative finance instruments for greater resilience of SMEs and economies at the margin.