Will Ruddick, a grassroots economist, combines traditional practices and economic innovation. After graduate school in high-energy physics at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Economics at the University of Cape Town, his passion shifted to grassroots economics. Since 2008, based in East Africa, he's implemented successful programs in resource coordination with local groups across Kenya and engaged in activities such as ecosystem restoration, food and water security, connecting communities with their abundance, skills and talents. Founder of Grassroots Economics Foundation, he's a pioneer on commitment pooling, an economic protocol inspired by ancestral wisdom. Globally, he consults on economics and collaborates with organizations like the World Food Program, the Red Cross, and the University of Cape Town's Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit as well as with several community leaders around the world. He's an associate scholar with the University of Cumbria's Initiative