Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

All the previous interviews

• 2024
  • Interview with Mr. Maan Alangari, General Manager of the General Directorate for Cooperatives within the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Interview with Walter el Nagar, Executive Director of Fondazione MATER, Switzerland
  • Interview with Prof. Carmen Marcuello, Director of GESES and President of OIBESCOOP, Spain
• 2023
  • Interview with Julie Chartrand-Beauregard, Strategic Advisor and Executive Assistant, Directorate of Collective Entrepreneurship at the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Quebec, Canada
  • Interview with Leire Mugerza Garate, President of the Mondragon Congress and Eroski's Governing Council, Basque Country, Spain
  • Interview with Matthew Epperson, Business Director, Savvy Co-op, USA
  • Interview with Ekaterina Dimitrova, Project Manager, Monnaie Léman, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Interview with Beatrice Alain, General Director of the Chantier de l'économie sociale in Quebec, Canada
  • Interview with Yvon Poirier, Special advisor on advocacy and governance at the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS)
  • Interview with Marie-Josée Paquette General Director of the Quebec Council of Co-operation and Mutualism (CQCM), Canada
  • Interview with Orkun Doğan, Economist and Researcher/Partner at Yerkure Local Studies Cooperative and Dissensus Research, Türkiye
  • Interview with Chiara Carini, Senior Researcher at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE), and Massimo Lori, Senior Researcher at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
  • Interview with Carlos Gonzalez Blanco, Research Officer, Cooperatives of the Americas
  • Interview with Elizabeth Nzilani Peter – Machakos Cooperative Union, Kenya
  • Interview with Hyun-Gon Jung, President of KoSEA (Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency)
  • Interview with Akkanut Wantanasombut – founder of community-based social and solidarity economy platform
  • Interview with Lorraine Ndlovu, President of StreetNet International
• 2022
  • Interview with Juan Antonio Pedreño, the President of the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Enterprises (CEPES), the President of Social Economy Europe (SEE), and the General Coordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean Social Economy (ESMED) Network
  • Interview with Melih Toprak and Fatih Polattimur, Trade Experts at the Turkish Ministry of Trade
  • Interview with Sonia George, General Secretary of Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Kerala
  • Interview with Francesca Ottolenghi, Chief of International Relations, EU Policies, International Development Cooperation and Internationalization Office, and Chief of Sustainability and Cooperation Office Legacoop in Italy
  • Interview with Paul Hazen, the Executive Director of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council
• 2021
  • Interview with Lucas Mprechas, Founding Member and Coordinator of the Social Network for Social Solidarity and Regional Development (KAPA Network), Greece
  • Interview with Sung Ho Kim, International Cooperation Department, KFCC
  • Interview with Antony McMullen, Cooperative Development Expert
• 2019
  • Brightly® – Scaling up worker cooperatives through the franchise model
  • OCB: Promoting and innovating in cooperative enterprises in Brazil
  • GDA Pure Nature: Empowering rural women thorough a cheese making cooperative in Tunisia
  • StreetNet International: Organizing street vendors towards formalization and economic empowerment
  • Siôn Whellens: Incubating worker cooperatives in the changing world of work
  • Centre for Co-operative Studies: Building a solid knowledge base on the cooperative business model
  • GSEF: Promoting the social and solidarity economy for human-centred development
  • CLIMBS: Extending mutual protection and building resilience in the Philippines
• 2018
  • Interview with Mert, Expert at the Ministry of Trade on the Social Cooperatie Education and Promotion Train, Türkiye
  • NeedsMap: Visualizing and matching social needs through an online cooperative platform in Türkiye
  • Cooperative of Associated Work Planeta Verde: Improving living conditions of waste pickers in Colombia
  • Interview with Rudi Dalvai, President, World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO)
  • Redesol - Building sustainable and solidary links among waste pickers in the informal economy in Brazil
  • Interview with Trebor Scholz – connecting cooperatives to the future of work, digitally
  • Employment provision is among the biggest contributions of cooperatives to the sustainable development agenda
• 2017
  • Interview with Osamu Nakano, Chief of International Relation Unit of Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU)
  • Rokin Labour Banks: Financial cooperatives for workers in Japan
  • Rah-e-Roshd: The first cooperative school working to advance inclusive and quality education in Iran
  • Interview with Mirai Chatterjee, Chairperson of the SEWA Cooperative Federation and Director of the SEWA Social Security Team
  • Rural cooperative works to preserve the cultural heritage of Malta
  • Italian social cooperatives working together for the benefit of the communities
  • A social enterprise creating job opportunities for migrants and disadvantaged persons in Berlin
• 2016
  • Cooperative housing for refugees in Greece
  • iCOOP - Consumer cooperative in the Republic of KoreaiCOOP - Consumer cooperative in the Republic of Korea
  • Interview with Michael Koisen, Chief Executive Officer of Teachers Savings and Loan Society Limited (TISA), Papua New Guinea
  • Turkey’s first youth-led social cooperative