Aaron Thornell Panellist
Aaron Thornell Panellist

Aaron is the Customer & Member Manager of both OREC and CoEnergy Co-operative. He is responsible for member & investor management, project development, and overall operations of both co-operatives.


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Aboma Anuma Getachew Panellist
Aboma Anuma Getachew Panellist

Panellist Parallel session 3.1 :For the Survival of the Planet Capacity Building and Cooperative Support Senior Expert, Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Ethiopia


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Aeng Min Panellist
Aeng Min Panellist

Aeng Min is the Executive Director of Korea Health Welfare Social Cooperative Federation, which has 25 Health Welfare Social Cooperatives (HWSC) as members in Korea.


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Ahyoung Kim Rapporteur
Ahyoung Kim Rapporteur

Ahyoung Kim is an iCOOP Fellow Research Professor in the Department of Management of Co-operatives at the Graduate School of Sungkonghoe University, Korea, and she is the General Affairs Chair of the  Korean Society for Cooperative Studies.


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Ainara Udaondo Panellist
Ainara Udaondo Panellist

Ainara Udaondo is the Director of LANKI – The Institute of Cooperative Research, at the Faculty of Humanities & Education Science, Mondragon University in the Basque Country of Spain.


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Akira Kurimoto Panellist
Akira Kurimoto Panellist

Akira Kurimoto currently serves as the Chair of the ICA Asia Pacific Research Committee and is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Cooperative Monitor. 


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Alejandro Simón Panellist
Alejandro Simón Panellist

Alejandro Simón is the CEO of Grupo Sanco Seguros, where he has worked since 1998. He is also President of CITES (Centre for Technological, Business and Social Innovation), and President of FISO (Latin American Foundation of Security and Occupational Health).


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Alexandra Wilson Facilitator
Alexandra Wilson Facilitator

Alexandra Wilson discovered a passion for cooperatives in 1974, when she led her neighbours in a successful fight to create the Bain Apartments Cooperative, putting a stop to the landlord’s plans to evict 260 low-income households. This involvement as a teenager in saving her own home led to a career in the development, management and provision of association services to housing cooperatives. After nine years with the Cooperative Housing Federation of Toronto, five as managing director, and 15 years at the head of the Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada, Alexandra started up the Agency for Cooperative Housing, serving as CEO from 2005 until her retirement in 2021.


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Aline Mugisho Panellist
Aline Mugisho Panellist

Aline Mugisho is the Executive Manager for the Innovative Youth in Agriculture Project (I-Youth) at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Before joining IITA, she worked as a Senior Project Manager for the European Youth Education Centre (EJBW) in Germany where she is also completing her doctoral studies at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt.


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Alireza Banaeifar
Alireza Banaeifar

Alireza Banaeifar is the International Affairs Manager of the Iran Chamber of Cooperatives (ICC) and is a Global Youth Network executive committee member. He is also the Vice-Chairperson of the youth committee in Asia-Pacific (ICYC).


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Ana Aguirre Panellist
Ana Aguirre Panellist

Ana Aguirre is a co-founder and worker owner at TAZEBAEZ S.Coop where she leads the cooperative development area. She is the Vice President for the International Cooperative Alliance Youth network in Europe, where she also serves in the youth executive committee.


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Ana Džokić Panellist
Ana Džokić Panellist

Ana Džokić is an architect, with over 20 years of experience pioneering unconventional approaches to the challenges of contemporary urban development. Ana is a founding member of two civil associations that deal with the unsustainability of the current housing condition.


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Ander Etxeberria-Otadui Rapporteur
Ander Etxeberria-Otadui Rapporteur

Ander Etxeberria-Otadui has been the head of Mondragon’s cooperative outreach program for the last five years. Annually, he serves approximately two thousand people who want to become acquainted with the Mondragon Cooperative Experience. He also lectures in universities and other fora around the world.


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Anders Lago Facilitator, Panellist
Anders Lago Facilitator, Panellist

Anders Lago is the President of Cooperative Housing International.


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Ann Hoyt Speaker, Panellist
Ann Hoyt Speaker, Panellist

Ann Hoyt is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was a consumer cooperative specialist with a focus on cooperative governance.


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Anna Biondi Panellist
Anna Biondi Panellist

Anna Biondi is the Deputy Director of the International Labour Organization’s Bureau for Workers Activities (Actrav).


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Anne Chappaz Panellist
Anne Chappaz Panellist

Anne Chappaz is Chief of Institutions and Ecosystems for the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva.


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Anne Laure Desgris Panellist
Anne Laure Desgris Panellist

Anne Laure Desgris is the Co-Director of the Smart cooperative group in Belgium. Her professional career began in the logistics and international transport sector.


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Ariel Guarco Panellist
Ariel Guarco Panellist

Ariel Guarco is the ICA president and has served as a member of ICA’s Global Board since 2013.


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Azaratou Sondo Panellist
Azaratou Sondo Panellist

Azaratou Sondo is a graduate of Higher Studies from the Technical Institute of Banks in Paris, with a Masters in Sociology, Masters in Business Communications and Communication for Sustainable Human Development.


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Bahman Abdollahi Panellist
Bahman Abdollahi Panellist

Mr. Abdollahi is a confident cooperator with over 30 years of experience in the cooperative sector as the Member of the Board of Directors of IRIB, Managing Director of the National Consumer Union of Iran (ESCAD), and the President of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives since 2014.


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Balasubramanian Iyer Rapporteur
Balasubramanian Iyer Rapporteur

Balasubramanian (Balu) Iyer, is ICA’s Asia-Pacific’s Regional Director based in New Delhi, India. ICA, a member-based organization, advances the cooperative social enterprise model and provides a global voice and forum for cooperatives. The ICA Asia-Pacific’s 110 members from 32 countries are national apex organizations, sector federations and government departments.


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Béatrice Alain Panellist
Béatrice Alain Panellist

Béatrice Alain is Executive Director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale, an independent organization dedicated to the consultation of actors and partners of the social economy in order to promote collective entrepreneurship and develop sectors and tools capable of supporting the emergence of this development model based on the values of solidarity, equity and transparency.


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Ben Reid Facilitator, Panellist
Ben Reid Facilitator, Panellist

An accountant by profession, Ben Reid began his cooperative career with a small cooperative in Ilkeston, UK. By 1988 he had become Deputy CEO of West Midlands Co-operative and CEO in 1992. In 2005 West Midlands Co-operative Society and Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Society merged forming Midcounties Co-operative.


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Bill Cheney Panellist
Bill Cheney Panellist

Bill Cheney is the president and CEO of SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, the largest credit union in California and the fifth largest in the nation, with almost 1.2 million Members and $26 billion in assets. 


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Bitange Ndemo Panellist
Bitange Ndemo Panellist

Bitange Ndemo is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. His research centres on the link between ICTs and small and medium enterprises with emphasis on how ICTs influence economic development in Africa. Professor Ndemo chaired the Kenya Distributed Ledgers and Artificial Intelligence Taskforce that developed the country’s road map for digital transformation.


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Bokyung Moon Panellist
Bokyung Moon Panellist

Bokyung Moon has been the Director of Gyeonggi Social Economy Center since 2020 and is creating a model for a leading intermediary organization for social economy for  Public-Private Partnership.


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brandon king Panellist
brandon king Panellist

brandon king is a community organizer, dj, visual artist, overall creative from Hampton Roads Virginia USA.  


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Bruno Dunkel Speaker, Rapporteur
Bruno Dunkel Speaker, Rapporteur

Bruno is Managing Director of Inpulse Investment Manager, a Brussels based Fund Manager affiliated with the French Credit Coopératif Group.


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Bruno Roelants Speaker
Bruno Roelants Speaker

Bruno Roelants has been Director General of the ICA since 2018. He was Secretary General of CICOPA between 2002 and 2018 and of its regional organization CECOP CICOPA-Europe as of 2006.


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Camila Piñeiro Harnecker Facilitator, Panellist
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker Facilitator, Panellist

Camila Piñeiro Harnecker is the Director at NCBA CLUSA’s Strengthening Cooperatives and Producer Groups Practice Area.


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Cerge Servando Perualila Panellist
Cerge Servando Perualila Panellist

Cerge Servando Perualila, born in 2009, is a student at the Integrated School for Exceptional Children, South Fundidor Molo, Iloilo City.


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Chikako Futamura Panellist
Chikako Futamura Panellist

Ms. Chikako Futamura has been the Executive Director of the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) since June 2021 and joined JCCU in 1991.


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Chris Oluoch Panellist
Chris Oluoch Panellist

Chris has over 17 years’ experience in development work in both small holder and plantation set ups. An HR generalist and Manpower Development professional, he has helped set up management systems for business sustainability, compliance and project management.


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Christine Merkel Panellist
Christine Merkel Panellist

Christine M. Merkel is an expert in international relations, strategy development and public policies in arts, media and culture. She is the head of the Division of Culture, Communication, Memory of the World at the German Commission for UNESCO.


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Clara Maffia Panellist
Clara Maffia Panellist

Clara Maffia is the Institutional Relations Manager at OCB – Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives. She has a degree in Political Science from the University of Brasilia and a Postgraduate qualification in Organizational management. Over the last 10 years she has worked in the field of relations between cooperatives and the Brazilian government.


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Danila Curcio Facilitator
Danila Curcio Facilitator

Danila Curcio lives in Rome and works for Confcooperative, member of the Italian Cooperative Alliance as Head of the International Institutional Relations at the  Brussels Office in the Political Union Department.


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Danilo Gutiérrez Panellist
Danilo Gutiérrez Panellist

Danilo Gutiérrez est le directeur exécutif de l’Institut national de coopérativisme d’Uruguay (INACOOP).


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Danilo Salerno Rapporteur
Danilo Salerno Rapporteur

Danilo Salerno is the ICA Cooperatives of the Americas’ Regional Director. Born in Italy, Danilo Salerno is an International development expert with a passion for multilateralism and a deep sense of Justice, Fairness, Equality.


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David Avina Panellist
David Avina Panellist

David Aviña is an Assistant Director at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), where he coordinates energy services programs and other technical assistance work with the Member Services department. He provides cost-savings and useful tools to the limited-equity Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) co-op community.


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David Smith Panellist
David Smith Panellist

David Smith is a lifelong co-operative activist. He was elected Director of the Co-operative Group’s Main Board, Specialist Board & National Values & Principles Committee; Co-operative Foundation Trustee.


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David Venegas Panellist
David Venegas Panellist

David Venegas is an educator specializing in studies in youth and adult education, and solidarity economy. He has extensive experience in management and work with NGOs and projects of social development and international cooperation.


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Diana Dovgan Rapporteur
Diana Dovgan Rapporteur

Diana Dovgan is the Secretary General of CICOPA (International organization of cooperatives in industry and services) and CECOP (European confederation of cooperatives in industry and services).


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Dinara Chochunbaeva Panellist
Dinara Chochunbaeva Panellist

Dinara Chochunbaeva is an artist, expert on traditional handicrafts and conductor of art and social projects. Since 2004, she coordinates in Central Asia, the UNESCO/World Crafts Council Program’s “Award of Excellence for Handicraft Products”.


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Dirk Vansintjan Panellist
Dirk Vansintjan Panellist

Dirk Vansintjan has been fighting for a citizen-based energy transition for more than 30 years. In 1991, Dirk co-founded the renewable energy cooperative Ecopower to promote the development of renewable energy in Belgium.


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Doug O’Brien Rapporteur
Doug O’Brien Rapporteur

Doug O’Brien is the president & CEO of NCBA CLUSA, where he works with the cooperative community, both in the U.S. and internationally, to deepen its impact on individuals and communities.


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Dr. Carlos Zarco Facilitator, Panellist
Dr. Carlos Zarco Facilitator, Panellist

Dr. Carlos Zarco has a degree in Medicine and post-graduate studies in quality management and senior management of health institutions. He has master’s degrees in Planning and Quality Management, Science in Health, and Advanced Clinical Management. Dr. Zarco is a member of the Board and Director-General of Fundación Espriu, President of the International Health Cooperative Organisation, IHCO, and member of the Board of the Alliance for Health Promotion.


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Dr. Chanho Choi Facilitator
Dr. Chanho Choi Facilitator

Dr. Chanho Choi was an employee of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF), Korea for 32 years, Secretary General of the International Agricultural Cooperative Organization (ICAO) from 2008 – 2009, Professor at the Agricultural Cooperative University (ACU) from 2005 – 2008, and ICA Asia and Pacific’s Regional Director from 2010 – 2014. He also has a Ph.D. in Development Communication from University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB, 1988).


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Dr. Chiyoge B. Sifa Rapporteur
Dr. Chiyoge B. Sifa Rapporteur

Dr. Chiyoge B. Sifa is the Regional Director and CEO of the International Cooperative Alliance – Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and has had over 25 years of work experience cutting across communication, aviation, humanitarian services, academia, agriculture, and cooperative development across Africa.


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Dr. Gilberto Quinche Panellist
Dr. Gilberto Quinche Panellist

Dr. Gilberto Quinche is currently the General Manager of the Health Sector of Coomeva.


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Dr. Giuseppe Maria Milanese Panellist
Dr. Giuseppe Maria Milanese Panellist

Dr. Giuseppe Milanese has been the President of Confcooperative Sanità Confcooperative since 2010. He has a medical degree with specialization in infectious diseases and a postgraduate Master in Health Management.


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Dr. Graciela Fernández Facilitator
Dr. Graciela Fernández Facilitator

Dr. Graciela Fernández is the President of ICA’s Cooperatives of the Americas, and has served as Vice President of the ICA since October 2018. She has more than 20 years of experience in leading and promoting the cooperative business model, social economy and associative path of working and representation.


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Dr. Onofre Cezário de Souza Filho Facilitator
Dr. Onofre Cezário de Souza Filho Facilitator

An ICA Board Member, Dr. Onofre Cezário de Souza Filho graduated in Medicine from the Universidade Federal de Goiás, specialist in Cooperative Business Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.


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Dr. Saji Gopinath Facilitator
Dr. Saji Gopinath Facilitator

Dr. Saji Gopinath is the Vice-Chancellor of Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology set up by the Government in the southern state of Kerala in India. He has a long career as a Professor of Management with the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode where his research is primarily in the area of Operation Excellence in a variety of social and commercial organizations.


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Dr. Seunghyun Cho Panellist
Dr. Seunghyun Cho Panellist

Dr. Seunghyun Cho is Assistant Research Fellow of NH Economic Research Institute (NH ERI) at 솓 National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF) of Korea. Dr. Cho studied the risk management of commodity markets and earned his Ph.D in Agricultural Economics at Seoul National University.


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Dr. Youngkon Koh Facilitator
Dr. Youngkon Koh Facilitator

Dr. Youngkon Koh studied agricultural economics in Seoul National University in Korea and Oklahoma State University, USA. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University in 1991.


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E.G. Nadeau Panellist
E.G. Nadeau Panellist

Emile (EG) Nadeau graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His co-op career began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal in 1970.


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Ela Bhatt Speaker
Ela Bhatt Speaker

Activist Ela Bhatt to speak at Congress.

Activist Ela Bhatt will join the cadre of speakers at Congress this year, and set the stage for discussions on Committing to our Cooperative Identity.


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Elena Perez Panellist
Elena Perez Panellist

Elena Pérez is the current Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security of the Government of the Basque Country in Spain. She has a degree in Law and Business, specializing in Economic and Public Sector. She later obtained her master’s degree in Gender and Equality Policies.


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Elisa Carolina Torrenegra Cabrera Panellist
Elisa Carolina Torrenegra Cabrera Panellist

Elisa Torrenegra has served as the Director General of Gestarsalud (Association of Health Insurance Management Companies) since 2002. She is trained as a surgeon at the Universidad Libre de Colombia.


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Elizabeth Salazar Rapporteur
Elizabeth Salazar Rapporteur

Elizabeth Salazar is an international development practitioner and gender advisor. She is a Technical Specialist for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (NCBA CLUSA). Her work focuses on international development programs in the areas of economic growth and livelihoods, cooperative business development, and food security and agriculture.


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Eric Bidet Facilitator
Eric Bidet Facilitator

Eric Bidet is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business Administration of Le Mans University-LMU (France). Here, he has directed the Master of Social and Solidarity Economy program for 12 years and has been Chair of the Social and Solidarity Economy department since it was created in 2014. 


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Federico Li-Bonilla Panellist
Federico Li-Bonilla Panellist

Frederico Li-Bonilla is the Director (Dean) of the School of Administration Sciences at Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED).


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Francesca Martinelli Panellist
Francesca Martinelli Panellist

Francesca Martinelli is in charge of institutional communication and international relations at the Italian cooperative Doc Servizi.


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Gerardo Almaguer Facilitator
Gerardo Almaguer Facilitator

Gerardo Almaguer has been President and CEO at Développement international Desjardins (DID) since January 3, 2019.


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Gianluca Salvatori Panellist
Gianluca Salvatori Panellist

Gianluca Salvatori is the Secretary General of Euricse, an international research center on cooperative and social enterprises.


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Giovanna Barni Panellist
Giovanna Barni Panellist

Giovanna Barni is the President and Business Development Manager at CoopCulture since 2010.


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Giuseppe Guerini Panellist
Giuseppe Guerini Panellist

Giuseppe Guerini is President of CECOP-CICOPA Europa, the European Confederation of Industrial Cooperatives and Social Cooperatives which represents some 50,000 companies with more than 1.3 million workers in Europe.


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Guido Schwarzendahl Panellist
Guido Schwarzendahl Panellist

Guido Schwarzendahl has been Managing Director of Bauverein, Halle & Leuna in Halle, Germany since 2001. After merging with another housing cooperative, it is now one of Germany’s largest with over 7,500 flats in four cities.


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Guilherme Brady Panellist
Guilherme Brady Panellist

Guilherme Brady is the Head of the Unit for Family Farming Engagement and Parliamentary  Networks within FAO Partnerships and the UN Collaboration Division. He is the officer responsible for the Joint Secretariat FAO – IFAD for the United Nations Decade of Family Farming. 


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Guy Ryder Speaker
Guy Ryder Speaker

Born in Liverpool (UK) in 1956, Guy Ryder studied Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool. He speaks French and Spanish as well as his mother tongue, English. He started his professional career in 1981 as assistant at the International Department of the Trade Union Congress in London.


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Guy Tchami Panellist
Guy Tchami Panellist

Guy Tchami has been working for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for the past 20 years.


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Gwangseog Hong Master of Ceremony
Gwangseog Hong Master of Ceremony

Proudly representing the Korean cooperative movement, Gwangseog Hong will be one of two MCs at Congress. He is the team leader of the international cooperation office at the Korea National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF), and deputy secretary general of the International Cooperative Agricultural Orgnisation (ICAO) Secretariat.


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Hotaka Hara Panellist
Hotaka Hara Panellist

Hotaka Hara is a physician specializing in family medicine at Ehime Health Co-operative Hospital, which he joined in 2002 after graduating from Ehime University. He currently serves as the Assistant Director of the hospital and the Manager of the Internal Medicine & Family Practice Department. Since 2006, he has been in charge of training programs on family medicine organized mainly by Ehime Health Co-operative Hospital. From June 2019 to June 2021, he served as a board member of the Japanese Health and Welfare Co-operative Federation (HeW CO-OP JAPAN), a national federation of health and welfare co-operatives in Japan with 105 affiliated member societies comprising 2.97million individual members (as of March 2020).


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Howard Brodksy Speaker
Howard Brodksy Speaker

Co-Founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of CCA Global Partners, one of the largest cooperatives in the United States with sales of over 10 billion.


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Hugo Villalta Solano Panellist
Hugo Villalta Solano Panellist

Hugo Villalta Solano is the Commercial Director for CS Group. He has more than 27 years of experience in the financial sector, in the definition and implementation of strategic plans, and in leading and developing high-performance work teams focused on the marketing and comprehensive sale of results-oriented banking services.


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Hyeonggeun Yoon Panellist
Hyeonggeun Yoon Panellist

Mr. Hyeonggeun Yoon is the executive director of the Hansalim Cooperative Federation. He chooses coexistence, cooperation, and solidarity as the values the cooperative movement should pursue. 


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Ibrahima Keïta Panellist
Ibrahima Keïta Panellist

Ibrahima Keïta is the Director General of the Kafo Jiginew cooperative financial network in Mali and has been involved with this organisation for nearly 25 years.


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Idoia Mendia Speaker, Panellist
Idoia Mendia Speaker, Panellist

Idoia Mendia is second vice president and Labor and Employment minister of the Basque Government (Spain), which has, among her attributions, competences in matters of social economy in the cooperative model that is a world reference. Se will be speaking alongside Iñigo Albizuri – MONDRAGON’s Global Head of Public Affairs on “Strengthening Our Cooperative Identity”


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Ilana Gotz Facilitator
Ilana Gotz Facilitator

Ilana Gotz is a project manager at Euricse, working primarily on initiatives and research related to the cooperative movement at the international level. For Euricse she manages the World Cooperative Monitor, Stories.coop, and contributes to various projects related to international training and network building, such as Youcoope and Ecoope.


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Ilcheong Yi Panellist
Ilcheong Yi Panellist

Ilcheong YI is a Senior Research Coordinator of Alternative Economies for the Transformation Programme / Transformative Social Policy and Development Programme at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).


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Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal Facilitator, Speaker, Panellist
Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal Facilitator, Speaker, Panellist

At the Congress, Mr. Albizuri will be speaking alongside Idoia Mendia, Deputy President and Regional Minister for Labour and Employment in the Basque Government, on ‘Strengthening Our Cooperative Identity’.


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Isabelle Gagné Panellist
Isabelle Gagné Panellist

Ms. Isabelle Gagné has more than 20 years of experience in the field of communications. Involved in event management, strategic thinking and content development, and she is an excellent team collaborator, so that it can carry out its mandate in a professional, efficient and consistent manner – this is a priority for her


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Ivan Asiimwe Panellist
Ivan Asiimwe Panellist

Ivan Asiimwe is the GEneral Secretary and CEO of the Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA). UCA was established in 1961 as the Apex/Umbrella body for over 30,000 cooperatives in Uganda serving over 15 million people, 90% are farmers.


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Jaeho Lee Panellist
Jaeho Lee Panellist

Jaeho Lee is the general manager for the NH Economic Research Institute. Prior to this, he served as the deputy general manager of the NH Bank FX Business Department.


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Jane Kathuku Panellist
Jane Kathuku Panellist

Dr. Jane Kathuku is a career banker, cooperative movement enthusiast, certified engagement and productivity coach and a strategic management expert with a bias in medium and small enterprises growth with 18 years of experience in banking and cooperative leadership.


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Javier Goienetxea Panellist
Javier Goienetxea Panellist

Javier Goienetxea is the president of the MONDRAGON Congress and the Permanent Commission (Comisión Permanente) since 2014. He serves as the president of the main social organ of the MONDRAGON Corporation.


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Jen Horonjeff Panellist
Jen Horonjeff Panellist

Jen Horonjeff is the founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first and only patient-owned public benefit co-op that helps innovators connect directly with diverse patients in order to get the insights they need to build better and more inclusive healthcare solutions.


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Jeonghee Kim Panellist
Jeonghee Kim Panellist

Jeonghee Kim joined iCOOP as a consumer member and obtained a master’s degree on Cooperative Management at Sungkonghoe University Graduate School in 2014.


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João Marcos Silva Martins Rapporteur
João Marcos Silva Martins Rapporteur

João Marcos Silva Martins is International Relations of the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives – OCB.


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John Houston Speaker, Panellist
John Houston Speaker, Panellist

Film Producer and Director
Atautsikut/Leaving None Behind

John Houston will help launch the start of Congress by sharing his stories at the celebratory event, kicking off the three days of discussion, debate and conversations on the theme, Deepening our Cooperative Identity.


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Jose Mari Luzarraga Panellist
Jose Mari Luzarraga Panellist

Jose Mari Luzarraga is the Co-Founder of Mondragon Team Academy (MTA World), an international community of 2,122 team entrepreneurs & young leading changemakers through the definition and implementation of a new vision of education & coop-entrepreneurship.


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Jose Pérez Rapporteur
Jose Pérez Rapporteur

Jose Pérez has been working on the promotion of health cooperatives since 2000. Currently, he is Deputy Director of Fundación Espriu, Spanish organisation gathering health cooperatives in Spain, and Secretary-General of the International Health Cooperative Organisation.


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Juan Pablo de Leon Murillo Panellist
Juan Pablo de Leon Murillo Panellist

Juan Pablo is the head of Corproate Communications in Caja Popular Mexicana, a financial cooperative serving 3 million members in Mexico.


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Juhee Lee Rapporteur
Juhee Lee Rapporteur

Juhee Lee serves as the Manager of International Cooperation and Activities of iCOOP, the federation of consumer co-ops in Korea. She leads an international team and works with cooperatives, social solidarity economy, and fair-trade organizations.


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Julie LaPalme Rapporteur
Julie LaPalme Rapporteur

Julie LaPalme is Secretary General for Cooperative Housing International, one of the International Cooperative Alliance’s eight sectors. Since 2014, Julie has been raising awareness about housing cooperatives at a global level, facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges, and sharing good practices through a comprehensive communications program.


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Karen Zimbelman Facilitator
Karen Zimbelman Facilitator

Karen Zimbelman is the National Co+op Grocers’ Senior Director for Membership and Cooperative Relations.


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Karina Lehoux Facilitator
Karina Lehoux Facilitator

Since her debut on stage and in television in the early 2000s, Karina Lehoux has been a facilitator in more than 850 events, including: seminars and conventions, annual general meetings and public forums. More recently, she has been using her experience in television to facilitate virtual conferences, awards and international events. Last October, she was the spokesperson for the Conseil québécois de la coopération et de la mutualité. Karina Lehoux is a graduate of Laval University (bachelor’s degree in business administration) and HEC Montréal (DESS in communication-marketing).


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Laurence Kwark Facilitator
Laurence Kwark Facilitator

Laurence Kwark is the Secretary General of the GSEF Secretariat. Prior to joining GSEF, she served as UN representative for Pax Romana ICMICA in Geneva, where she also served as the Secretary General for five years.


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Lizzie Hieron Panellist
Lizzie Hieron Panellist

Lizzie has spent her career working in Utilities and Telecoms, leading high-performance teams to deliver exceptional customer experience to both domestic and commercial customers.  


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Louis Cousin Panellist
Louis Cousin Panellist

Louis Cousin is a researcher and consultant in cooperative digital innovation.


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Lucia Lacuesta Panellist
Lucia Lacuesta Panellist

In 2017, working with 11 entrepreneurs from Spain, China, Korea, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and United States of America, Lucia Lacuesta established a company called Fun, where they develop divergent projects related to their individual passions and current global trends. 


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Luz Adriana Izquierdo Hincapié Panellist
Luz Adriana Izquierdo Hincapié Panellist

Luz Adriana is a social communicator and journalist specializing in Organizational Communication.


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Manuel Felipe Issa Abadia Panellist
Manuel Felipe Issa Abadia Panellist

Manuel Felipe Issa Abadia is the Corporate Manager of Human Management and is in charge of Corporate Management of Marketing and Services at the COOMEVA Group in Colombia.


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Marc Noël Rapporteur
Marc Noël Rapporteur

Marc has been working in the cooperative movement since 2004. He started working in coffee and cacao cooperatives in Nicaragua for a year, before joining the European Confederation Cooperatives Europe in 2006. He currently acts as ICA’s International Development Director, coordinating the #coops4dev Partnership with the European Commission.


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Maria Eugenia Pérez Zea Facilitator, Panellist
Maria Eugenia Pérez Zea Facilitator, Panellist

Maria Eugenia Pérez Zea is the Chair of the International Cooperative Alliance’s Gender Equality Committee and Vice President of the Regional Committee on Gender Equality (CREG). She is the Executive Director of the Colombian Association of Cooperatives (ASCOOP).


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Maria Rita Valencia Molina Panellist
Maria Rita Valencia Molina Panellist

Maria Molina has more than 40 years of experience in cooperative sector enterprises, with competencies in the areas of education, cooperative promotion, democracy and social responsibility. She is a Social Worker with a specialist in Business Administration, master in Education and Human Development, and is a mobilizer of initiatives, programs, projects and work teams in the areas indicated. Maria is a leader with listening skills and the managerial competencies needed to execute projects and skills to facilitate educational processes with different population groups by their educational level, by social stratum, ages and leadership.


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Marie-Josée Paquette Panellist
Marie-Josée Paquette Panellist

Marie-Josée Paquette, Director General of the Quebec Council for Cooperation and Mutuality (CQCM), is a proud ambassador of the cooperative model.


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Marjaana Saarikoski Speaker, Facilitator
Marjaana Saarikoski Speaker, Facilitator

Marjaana Saarikoski is representing Finnish cooperatives at the Board of the International Cooperative Alliance since 2017. She is also the Vice-President of the Euro Coop – the European Community of Consumer Cooperatives. 


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Martin Lowery Speaker, Facilitator
Martin Lowery Speaker, Facilitator

Martin Lowery is the U.S. representative to the board of the International Cooperative Alliance and chairs the ICA Cooperative Identity Committee.


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Masahiro Higa Panellist
Masahiro Higa Panellist

Masahiro Higa was appointed in 2020 as the Representative Senior Managing Director of the Japan Cooperative Alliance (JCA), which was established in 2018 to promote cooperation among cooperatives of various sectors in order to create sustainable communities with better living and better working.


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Mayuko Asahina Panellist
Mayuko Asahina Panellist

Mayuko Asahina joined Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) in 1995, and worked in the Information System Department, and was in charge of building the product specification database.


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Minsu Kang Speaker, Panellist
Minsu Kang Speaker, Panellist

Minsu Kang is Head of the Seoul Cooperative Support Center and is active in continuing research on the social economy and cooperatives.


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Mirai Chatterjee Panellist
Mirai Chatterjee Panellist

Mirai Chatterjee is the Director of the Social Security Team at Self-Employed Women’s Association, (SEWA).


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Musa Sydney Sibandze Facilitator
Musa Sydney Sibandze Facilitator

Musa Sibandze is the President of the Eswatini Farmers Cooperative Union (ESWAFCU), Founder & Managing Director of SMS General Supplies and Services (PTY) LTD which was established in 1999. He is also the Founder and Senior Pastor of the Redeemed Christians Revival Center Church based in Eswatini.


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Nancy Heinrichs Panellist
Nancy Heinrichs Panellist

Nancy Heinrichs is the Executive Director of NorWest Co-op Community Health, a non-profit health cooperative and community health agency in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Nancy has defined her career by a philosophy of openness, integration and collaboration viewed through a community lens.


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Nazik Beishenaly Speaker
Nazik Beishenaly Speaker

Nazik Beishenaly is a researcher at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where she works on the role of cooperatives in international development and cooperative entrepreneurial ecosystems.


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Neil Calvert
Neil Calvert

Neil joined the Co-operative College as CEO and Principal in July 2021, and brought with him a wealth of experience gained in roles from across the education and charitable sectors.


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Nina Elomaa Panellist
Nina Elomaa Panellist

Nina Elomaa is passionate about sustainability and believes in positive development in the role businesses. She is tackling the sustainability challenges facing the globe in collaboration with different actors along the value chain.


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Olivier De Schutter Speaker, Panellist
Olivier De Schutter Speaker, Panellist

UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights


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Om Devi Malla Facilitator
Om Devi Malla Facilitator

Om Devi Malla is the Senior Vice-Chair of the National Cooperative Federation of Nepal, and sits on the global board of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). She has been involved in the cooperative sector since 1997, having been an active campaigner for women’s empowerment through cooperatives particularly in her role as a member of the legislative Parliament of Nepal.


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Osamu Nakano Facilitator
Osamu Nakano Facilitator

Osamu Nakano is the Director of International Relations Department at Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU), a position he has held since July 2017. He concurrently serves as a board member of the JWCU.


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Patrick Develtere Panellist
Patrick Develtere Panellist

Patrick Develtere is professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.


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Patxi Olabarria Panellist
Patxi Olabarria Panellist

Currently, Patxi is the President of the Basque Cooperative High Council, Vice President of KONFEKOOP – the Basque Confederation of Cooperatives, Coordinator of the Teaching and Education cooperatives of the Basque Country that gathers 89 cooperatives, 57.513 members, 6.950 workers and 73.696 students.


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Paulo Martelli Panellist
Paulo Martelli Panellist

Paulo Martelli is the Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for FinDev Canada where he is responsible for originating and structuring debt and equity transactions throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. 


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Pete Westall Panellist
Pete Westall Panellist

Pete Westall is the Chief Values Officer & part of the Executive team for The Midcounties Co-operative, (www.midcounties.coop), where he has worked for over 30 years.


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Peter Hunt Panellist
Peter Hunt Panellist

Peter Hunt is the Founder and Managing Partner of Mutuo. He successfully led the successful
industry alliance to develop the Australian Treasury Laws Amendment (Mutual Reforms) Act
2019, and is an advisor to the UK Government on mutual business, to include leading the
Parliamentary teams which piloted five private members bills through the UK Parliament.


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Phil Ponsonby Panellist
Phil Ponsonby Panellist

Phil took up the role of Group CEO for the UK’s largest independent Co-operative Society, The Midcounties Co-operative, in August 2018 having originally joined to run its Food Retail business in 2015.


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Philippe Vanhuynegem Panellist
Philippe Vanhuynegem Panellist

Mr Philippe Vanhuynegem (Belgium) is the Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch of the ILO Governance and Tripartism Department since April 2021.


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Raul Colombetti Panellist
Raul Colombetti Panellist

Raul Colombetti is President of Sancor Foundation, Argentina.


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Robby Tulus Rapporteur
Robby Tulus Rapporteur

Robby Tulus is the Special Advisor to the Indonesian-Canadian Congress (ICC), based in Ottawa, Canada. He pioneered and co-founded the Credit Union Movement in Indonesia in the late 1960s. He pioneered and founded recent establishments of the National Association of Socio-Economic


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Rosa Lavin Panellist
Rosa Lavin Panellist

Rosa Lavín Ibarra, is the president of KONFEKOOP Confederación de Cooperativas de Euskadi (Confederation of the Cooperatives of the Basque region), that is home to 1,300 cooperatives from the worker owned, education, retail, finance- credit, agriculture and food, transport and housing sectors.


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Roz Henry Panellist
Roz Henry Panellist

Roz Henry took the role of CEO for Cooperative Business NZ in 2019, the peak body for New Zealand’s member owned businesses.


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Ruth Jelimo Kosgei Panellist
Ruth Jelimo Kosgei Panellist

Ruth Jelimo Kosgei is the Treasurer of the Lelechego Marketing Cooperative Society in Kenya. She previously led Sales and Marketing at Lakestar Insurance Company, Ltd. She has a great deal of experience working with dairy cooperatives and savings and credit cooperative organizations (SACCOs).


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Ryota Koyama Panellist
Ryota Koyama Panellist

Born 1974 in Tokyo, Dr. Ryota Koyama completed his doctorate at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University in 2002.


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S. P. Singh Panellist
S. P. Singh Panellist

GH is Managing Director of the unique cooperative i.e. Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative (IFFDC).


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Sally Bonnar Panellist
Sally Bonnar Panellist

Chief Operator Officer (COO) for Little Pioneers and Co-op Childcare (Part of the Midcounties Co-operative, UK).


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Sangyoun Lee Facilitator
Sangyoun Lee Facilitator

Dr. Sangyoun (“Youn”) Lee currently works at the Division of Business Administration, Sungkonghoe University (SKHU) in Korea.


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Santosh Kumar Rapporteur
Santosh Kumar Rapporteur

Santosh Kumar works as Director of Legislation at the ICA Global Office and staffs the ICA Cooperative Law Committee. He previously worked at the ICA Asia and Pacific office. Santosh completed his post-graduation in international trade law from the University of Turin, Italy, and is a lawyer admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi in India.


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Sarah Alldred Panellist
Sarah Alldred Panellist

Sarah joined the Co-operative College in 2012 as their International Programmes Manager, after four years working at Co-operatives UK, and over 10 years working in the peace movement, doing her PhD research on post conflict reconstruction.


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Sarah de Heusch Speaker, Panellist
Sarah de Heusch Speaker, Panellist

Sarah de Heusch is an Institutional Affairs Officer and Chair of Smart’s ethical committee. Smart is a cooperative of freelancers and entrepreneurs that provides them with tools and services to develop their activity autonomously while in solidarity.


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Savriti Singh Rapporteur
Savriti Singh Rapporteur

Mrs. Savitri Singh has more than 30 years experience working with national and international cooperative organisations in various capacities at higher management level.


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Seungkwon Jang Panellist
Seungkwon Jang Panellist

Seungkwon JANG is a Professor of Organization Theory, teaching management and organization theory at the Department of Management of Co-operatives, Graduate School & Cooperative MBA, Graduate School of Social Economy, Sungkonghoe University (Seoul, Korea).


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Shaun Tarbuck Panellist
Shaun Tarbuck Panellist

Shaun joined the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) in 1995 and was appointed Chief Executive in 2005.


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Sido Hyemin Kim Panellist
Sido Hyemin Kim Panellist

Sido is Chairperson of Minsnail Housing Coop and has been living in Snail Houses for five years. Sido means “try” and “all regions” in Korean. Because work, culture and social infrastructure are all concentrated in Seoul, Sido has worked to alleviate this inequality between Seoul and “the regions.”


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Simona Cavazzutti Panellist
Simona Cavazzutti Panellist

Simona Cavazzutti is the President of Confederation of Rural Cooperatives (CONCOPAR) of Paraguay, President of Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Vice President of the National Central Cooperative, Vice President of the Agro-industrial Production Cooperative and Treasurer of the Federation of Production Cooperatives.


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Siôn Whellens Rapporteur
Siôn Whellens Rapporteur

Siôn Whellens is a Vice President of CECOP-CICOPA Europe, the federation of cooperatives in industry and services. His working life has been in worker cooperatives in the graphic design and printing industries.


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Sokchiveneath Taing Chhoan Panellist
Sokchiveneath Taing Chhoan Panellist

Sokchiveneath Taing Chhoan is the Socio-Economic Development Senior Manager and sits on the Management Committee at FCNQ (Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec), where he has held several positions over the past 29 years.


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Stefania Marcone Facilitator
Stefania Marcone Facilitator

Stefania Marcone is the Vice President of Cooperatives Europe, chair of the Gender Equality Working Group, and also  serves on the ICA’s Gender Equality Committee. She also is a member of Legacoop National Commission for Equal Opportunities and the Italian Alliance Commission on Women and Equality. Ms. Marcone was appointed in 2012 to serve on the UN Committee for the International Year of Cooperatives. 


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Stéphane Pfeiffer Panellist
Stéphane Pfeiffer Panellist

As Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge of SSE, Stéphane Pfeiffer, 31, has been involved in the social and solidarity economy for almost 10 years.


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Sungsoon Park Rapporteur
Sungsoon Park Rapporteur

Sungsoon Park is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Management of Cooperatives at Sungkonghoe University’s Graduate School. The Department of Management of Cooperatives is for students who have experience in the social economy and work in cooperatives, and want to study more about the social economy. Park’s major is strategy and studies the networks, ethical practices of social economy, and self-support business. Park teaches people who want to start a social economy and how to run the business.


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Sylandi Brown Panellist
Sylandi Brown Panellist

Sylandi is the Marketing and Communications Specialist for Middle Georgia Electric Membership Corporation (Middle Georgia EMC), an electric cooperative in Georgia, USA. She works closely in developing marketing campaigns for the newly launched broadband services the cooperative provides. Recently, she was featured in the ICA’s 25 Voices campaign which recognizes and tells the story of members of the cooperative movement under the age of 25. Sylandi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication, with an emphasis in Organizational Communication. She is currently obtaining her Master’s degree at the University of Georgia’s Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program.


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Sylvia Okilay-Paraguya Panellist
Sylvia Okilay-Paraguya Panellist

Sylvia Okilay-Paraguya is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Confederation of Cooperatives or  NATCCO.


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Tamela Blalock Rapporteur
Tamela Blalock Rapporteur

Tamela Blalock serves as the Vice President (of) Cooperative Relations with NCBA CLUSA, where she enhances engagement and impact with the trade association among the collective cooperative leadership community.


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Tarun Bhargava Panellist
Tarun Bhargava Panellist

Mr. Tarun Bhargava, the General Manager in charge of the Sustainable Cooperative Development team at the Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative, is First Chairperson of International Cooperative Entrepreneurship Think Tank of the ICA. He  is also an Executive Member of ICAO, Agricultural Sectoral organization of ICA. 


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Thomas Boisvert St-Arnaud Panellist
Thomas Boisvert St-Arnaud Panellist

Thomas Boisvert St-Arnaud is an entrepreneur, cooperator and business researcher who seeks to better understand how governance can help create value.


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Thomas Knubben Panellist
Thomas Knubben Panellist

Prof. Dr. Thomas Knubben teaches at the Institute of Cultural Management, University of Education Ludwigsburg, Germany. He will speak on Idea, Strategies and Chances of Cooperatives in Cultural Heritage Management during the Congress.


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Thomas Mende Panellist
Thomas Mende Panellist

Thomas Mende is the Vice President and Head of Committees and Communication at DZ Bank, the central bank for cooperative banks in Germany.


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Todor Ivanov Rapporteur
Todor Ivanov Rapporteur

Since January 2014, Ivanov has served as the Secretary-General of Euro Coop – the European association of consumer cooperatives uniting and representing 19 national organisations of consumer co-ops, predominantly active in food retail.


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Toru Nakaya Panellist
Toru Nakaya Panellist

Mr. Toru Nakaya is President of JA Zenchu (Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives) of Japan, the apex organization of all the primary agricultural cooperatives and their federations with over 10 million members.


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Victor Van Vuuren Panellist
Victor Van Vuuren Panellist

Victor is currently the chairman of COPAC (The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives), the UNTFSSE (United Nations Task Force of the Social and Solidarity Economy), chairman of the PAGE Management Board (Partnership for Action in the Green Economy) and member of the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board.


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Violetta Nafpaktiti Rapporteur
Violetta Nafpaktiti Rapporteur

Violetta Nafpaktiti is the Managing Director of DotCoop LLC, providing the .coop domain and COOP Marque to thousands of cooperatives around the world, who are using these tools to promote their cooperative identity.


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Woonjeong Baek Panellist
Woonjeong Baek Panellist

Woonjeong Baek joined iCOOP in 2008 as a consumer-member to purchase healthy and organic food for her family. She has been actively involved in cooperative activities and contributed to establishing a co-op in her community. In 2012, she became Director of the Dongrae iCOOP, one of the member co-ops of iCOOP, and in 2016, she was elected as Chairperson of Geumjeong iCOOP. In 2019, she became a board member of iCOOP and currently serves as the Vice Chairperson.


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Xiomara Núñez de Céspedes Panellist
Xiomara Núñez de Céspedes Panellist

Xiomara Núñez de Céspedes is the Vice President of the ICA Gender Equality Committee of the International Cooperative Alliance.


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Yanio Concepcion Panellist
Yanio Concepcion Panellist

Mr. Yanio Concepcion is the Executive President of Cooperativa Vega Real, advisor to the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Development and Credit Institute IDECOOP and to the National Council of Cooperatives-CONACOOP. 


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Youngbum Park Speaker
Youngbum Park Speaker

Youngbum Park has served as Vice Minister of the MInistry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for the Republic of Korea since 2020. In 2019 he was the Secretary of Agriculture and Fisheries, Office of Presidential Secretary for Economy in the Presidential Office, and in 2018, he was a member of the Self-Evaluation Committee of the mInistry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. 


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Younghyang Kim Panellist
Younghyang Kim Panellist

Younghyang Kim served as the representative of the members’ association of Anseong Medical Association in 2003 and the first chairperson of Anseong Dure Consumer’s Cooperative (a member cooperative of Dure Consumer’s Cooperative) in 2009.


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Youngmi Choi Panellist
Youngmi Choi Panellist

Youngmi Choi is representative of the Korean Domestic Workers Association (KDWA) and an activist for the rights of workers in non-standard forms of employment.


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Zuraidah Hoffman Master of Ceremony
Zuraidah Hoffman Master of Ceremony

Joining Mr. Hong as co-MC is Zuraidah Hoffman. She leads the World Cooperative Congress communications team, after joining the ICA in 2019 as the interim communications director. With more than 20 years of experience in communications, she spent the last decade working closely with NRECA International, a global rural electrification NGO that takes its roots from the American electric cooperative movement. An experienced storyteller, producer and communicator, Zuraidah has travelled the world to produce stories on the impact rural electric cooperatives have on improving lives. A trained journalist and alumni of The George Washington University, she has experience in both written and visual media, international community outreach programmes and strategic communication.


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