the UN. Also in 2008, the Paraguayan President, Fernando Lugo, called on his experience to launch a debt audit for Paraguay. In 2008, he also advised the Venezuelan Minister for Economic Development and Planning. In September 2010, Toussaint spoke in New York at a UN Special Assembly to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals. Since 2010, he has been involved in citizens' debt audit initiatives in Europe, in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France and Belgiums. He was consulted by the Brazilian Parliamentary Congress on the debt in 2011 and by the Brazilian Economic Commission in 2013. In 2012, and in 2013, he was invited by Alexis Tsipras, the President of SYRIZA to discuss the Greek debt situation. In October 2014, he was invited by the majority Members of Parliament of the Argentine National Congress, working to establish the debt audit commission mentioned in the Argentine "Sovereign payment law" passed in September 2014, to speak in a debate on "Debt and National Sovereignty in Latin America". Between April and November 2015, Éric Toussaint was the Scientific coordinator of the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt set up and terminated by the President of the Hellenic Parliament. Teaching career Between 1975 and 1994, Toussaint taught several subjects in many public institutions of technical and vocational education of the city of Liege, including history. Between 1980 and 1984, he also taught economics at the André Renard Foundation, the training school for FGTB (General Federation of Labour of Belgium, biggest union in Wallonia and Brussels) activists, in Liège. Between 1994 and 2014, his trade union, the General Confederation of public services – education branch (affiliated to the FGTB), released him to focus entirely on CADTM activities. Meanwhile, he resumed university studies in political science and was awarded a doctorate from the Universities of Liège and Paris VIII in 2004. Since 1998, he has taught at the Belgian Technical Cooperation on the subject of alternatives to debt and global financial flows. During the academic years 2010–2011, 2011–2012, and 2013–2014, he taught a course at the University of Liège on north–south relations. He is also a fellow of the politically progressive International Institute for Research and Education. Bibliography (2020) Greece 2015 There was an alternative, Resistance Books, the IIRE and the CADTM, London, 2020 (2019) The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019 (2015) Bankocracy, Resistance Books, the