Building Sustainable Financial Systems and Running Smart Urban Systems

The first set of creative concepts presented in this book deals with a macro-level issue on how a global financial community could design a sustainably effective financial industry and promote reliably efficient financial-service institutions amid either a volatile or a sluggish environment in a global financial arena from the perspectives of public-policy formulators and private decision-makers. The second set of innovative ideas introduces a new approach to comprehensive developmental programs for a sophisticated urban system that aims at creating, enhancing, and sustaining values for its changing population profiles, economic activities, social diversity, and ecological compatibility in a dynamically and optimally balanced way. The SmartBalances® approach suggests three practical strategies, each with three corresponding deployable activities. Together, these creative propositions would allow all global-, national- and city-level policy planners alike to leverage and optimize their policy-making resources for sustainable impacts on their financial and urban systems while smartly governing their policy deployment to achieve better outcomes and exemplary results.

Autorentext

Worapot Ongkrutaraksa is the Fulbright Scholar and associate professor of financial technology with broad theoretical exposures and in-depth practical experiences. His professionalism beyond academia spans Shell Oil, Ministry of Finance, and Adelaide Bank as a modeling expert in risk simulation, project scenariorization, and portfolio optimization.