Antti Heinonen has been the chairman of Banknote Ethics Initiative since its inception in 2013. He was the chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group between 2008 and 2012 and the Director, Banknotes at the ECB from 1998 until 2008. He chaired the Banknote Committee of the European System of Central Banks for more than 10 years and the Eurosystem Cash Changeover Co-ordination Committee in 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the ECB he was the chief cashier for the Bank of Finland. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Helsinki, and has recently written two books, one on the history of Finland’s markka banknotes, and another on euro banknotes. The latter is also translated in English (The First Euros) and German (Die Ersten Euros).

Antti Heinonen has been the chairman of Banknote Ethics Initiative since its inception in 2013. He was the chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group between 2008 and 2012 and the Director, Banknotes at the ECB from 1998 until 2008. He chaired the Banknote Committee of the European System of Central Banks for more than 10 years and the Eurosystem Cash Changeover Co-ordination Committee in 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the ECB he was the chief cashier for the Bank of Finland. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Helsinki, and has recently written two books, one on the history of Finland’s markka banknotes, and another on euro banknotes. The latter is also translated in English (The First Euros) and German (Die Ersten Euros).

Aleksi Grym is head of fintech at the Bank of Finland. He leads a team that manages a portfolio of projects related to fintech, new payment technologies and digital currencies. He is a member of the Eurosystem's digital euro project steering group. Before joining the Finnish central bank he worked in the consulting and technology investment industry for 15 years in London and Helsinki.

Amir Safranovich has been with the Bank of Israel since 1997. Mr Safranovich has headed the Cash Management Division in the Currency Department of the Bank of Israel since 2003.

He is responsible for determining and implementing cash management policy in Israel and among other things, he is responsible for the supervision of cash centre, the regulation of the cash market, the contingency plan for cash, the banknotes quality standards, the reduction of counterfeits in circulation and the BOI cash centres operation.

Previous to this appointment, Mr Safranovich worked in the Banking Supervision Department in the Bank-Customer Relations Unit (1997-2003). He has a Master of Science degree in Economics from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.

Mr Rosbert Humphrey has been employed at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) for the past twenty two (22) years, twenty one (21) of which have been in the Currency Management Department, where he is currently the Director. His main duties include Forecasting, Ordering and Monitoring of currency stocks, and general management of the Currency Management Department. He is a certified Banknote Forensic Expert Witness and a Trainer in the delivery of Expert Witness Training in the Eastern Caribbean countries. Rosbert has been a presenter and discussant at several banknote and currency seminars, workshops and training courses.

Rosbert is a native of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Economics and Accounting and a Masters of Science Degree in Finance.

Antti Heinonen has been the chairman of Banknote Ethics Initiative since its inception in 2013. He was the chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group between 2008 and 2012 and the Director, Banknotes at the ECB from 1998 until 2008. He chaired the Banknote Committee of the European System of Central Banks for more than 10 years and the Eurosystem Cash Changeover Co-ordination Committee in 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the ECB he was the chief cashier for the Bank of Finland. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Helsinki, and has recently written two books, one on the history of Finland’s markka banknotes, and another on euro banknotes. The latter is also translated in English (The First Euros) and German (Die Ersten Euros).

Leif Veggum joined Norges Bank in 1986 and has worked in the Cashier’s Department since 2000, becoming Director of the unit in 2017.

Leif has played a central part in the changes that Norges Bank implemented in the cash area in order to increase the overall efficiency in cash distribution. This included both redefining Norges Bank’s role and responsibilities, and reorganizing the services and tasks for which the central bank is responsible.

Prior to that, Leif served in Norges Bank’s Financial Markets Department and Payment Systems Department.

Octavia Gibson joined the Central Bank of Barbados on December 29, 1975. Between 1975 and 2005, she worked in several departments in the Bank including Foreign Exchange, Banking, Accounts, Currency, Bank Supervision, Internal Audit and the Projects Unit.

Between 1998 and 2004, she spearheaded the Y2K Project, the RTGS and ACH Projects for the Bank and the financial sector.

In 2007, she was seconded to set up the Barbados Deposit Insurance Corporation and managed that entity until the appointment of its first CEO.

As Deputy Director, Currency, having been appointed to that post in 2005, she has been leading the Currency Team in a number of firsts including:
• Exhibition of world currencies
• Development of a royalty programme for numismatic coins
• Changeover to different materials for our coins
• Introduction of a new banknote series
• The One Cent Charity Drive done in association with the Rotary Club of Barbados, South and the Alzheimer’s Association.
• Withdrawal of the one cent
• Revamping of the Know Your Money Programme
• Introduction of an APP to assist with the authentication of the 2013 Banknote Series

Martin Münd was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1964. He started printing at the age of 12 in a voluntary workshop at school and went on to establish his own little print shop as a side business in the cellar of his parents‘ house. He studied printing technology at the “Fachhochschule für Druck” in Stuttgart, Germany and graduated as a printing engineer in 1995. For four years he was employed in the process engineering department of a major manufacturer of electric appliances as an expert on printing and marking technologies. In 1999 he followed his life long passion and fascination for banknotes by joining the counterfeit money department of Deutsche Bundesbank. In 2001 he moved on to the European Central Bank and has since been working at the ECB’s Counterfeit Analysis Centre (CAC) as an expert on counterfeit banknotes. 

Boyd Laanstra is a Senior Analyst, Visual Content, with the Currency Department at the Bank of Canada, where his main role is to research and recommend visual content for new Canadian bank notes, and to help oversee the integration of this content throughout the design and production phases. While with the Bank, he has helped to develop two new notes - the Canada 150 commemorative bank note issued in 2017 and the vertical $10 note featuring Viola Desmond issued in 2018.

Prior to joining the Bank, Boyd led public history projects with the Department of Canadian Heritage and the National Capital Commission. This included the creation of an award-winning sound and light show that was projected onto the façade of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa each evening of the summer months. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from McGill University in Montreal and a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto.

Diana Posada works at the Bank of Spain as a senior economist. She joined the banknotes directorate in 2019 and since then her research has focused on access to cash, financial inclusion or the use of payment methods among others. She has been part of different workstreams on access to cash of the Eurosystem. Additionally, she is a member of the financial exclusion advisory group of the Bank of Spain.

Gregorio is an industrial engineer, with a master’s degree in quality assurance, he has broad experience in the banknote production and distribution processes. During the last year he was in charge of the issuing (issuance) of the last 2 denominations of the new Mexican banknote series, as well as the R&D activities in Banco de México. He also has been in charge of the implementation of Lean Six Sigma in the Mexico City printing works and improvement of the Mexican coin series.

He has collaborated in Banco de México for 22 years, and currently holds the position of Deputy Manager of Industrial Engineering.

Antti Heinonen has been the chairman of Banknote Ethics Initiative since its inception in 2013. He was the chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group between 2008 and 2012 and the Director, Banknotes at the ECB from 1998 until 2008. He chaired the Banknote Committee of the European System of Central Banks for more than 10 years and the Eurosystem Cash Changeover Co-ordination Committee in 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the ECB he was the chief cashier for the Bank of Finland. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Helsinki, and has recently written two books, one on the history of Finland’s markka banknotes, and another on euro banknotes. The latter is also translated in English (The First Euros) and German (Die Ersten Euros).