About Initiative Q

Initiative Q is the brainchild of Saar Wilf, a serial entrepreneur who started his first payments start-up in 1997, and later founded Fraud Sciences, which redefined the payment security space and was acquired by PayPal in 2008.

Wilf has compiled a team of experts from a variety of disciplines, including mathematics, economics, and other social sciences. The economic and monetary models were developed with Economist Lawrence White, a professor of monetary theory and policy at George Mason University, and reviewed by our advisory board members listed below.

Initiative Q is supported by an
Economic Advisory Board

Lawrence H. White

Professor of economics at George Mason University, specializes in the theory and history of banking and money.

Professor White is the author of The Clash of Economic Ideas (2012), The Theory of Monetary Institutions (1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed., 1995), and Competition and Currency (1989). He has been a visiting research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, a visiting lecturer at the Swiss National Bank, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a senior scholar of the Cato Institute Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives.

Marc Rysman

Professor of economics at Boston University. Rysman’s research focuses on industrial organization and competition, and the related issues of antitrust and regulation.

In particular, he specializes in issues of network effects, two-sided markets, standardization and compatibility.

William J. Luther

Director of the American Institute for Economic Research’s Sound Money Project, an assistant professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University, and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives.

Luther’s research focuses primarily on questions of currency acceptance.

James Caton

Faculty fellow at the North Dakota State University Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise (PCPE) and an assistant professor in the NDSU Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics.

He specializes in research related to entrepreneurship, agent-based computational economics, market process theory, and monetary economics.

The idea behind Initiative Q is to first create a critical mass of users, which can then be harnessed to create the world’s best payment network. Therefore, our primary focus is to get millions of Q members registered, after which we will continue recruiting the world’s top professionals in payment systems, macroeconomics, and Internet technologies. For more information, contact info@initiativeq.com.

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