Martin Wilding Davies

Who is Martin Wilding Davies?

Martin Wilding Davies is a Welsh screenwriter, political theorist, and designer noted for his design of the Welsh street fashion label, The Red Dragonhood.

Davies is the economic theorist responsible for the Uned, a negative interest complementary currency system he proposed to stimulate economic activity in the moribund Welsh economy, and with economist Chris Cook of the Nordic Enterprise Trust, a proposal to establish the Royal Mint as a capital partnership.

A social activist, Davies is the founder and leader of Newid, a progressive political party in Wales. Newid is the world's first popular movement for demarchy, a form of democracy in which government policy is decided by representative groups of citizens randomly selected by sortition rather than by career politicians chosen in elections.