April, 2010 Deputy Mayor of the City of Kawasaki (to the present)
January, 2006 Director-General of the General Planning Bureau
April, 2003 Director of the Planning Department, General Planning Bureau
April, 2002 M anager of the Financial Affairs Section, Finance Department, Finance Bureau
April, 2000 A ssociate Manager of the Financial Affairs Section, Finance Department, Finance Bureau
June, 1975 Employed by the City of Kawasaki

EDUCATION
Bachelor, Law, University of Deusto (1979-1984)
 Diploma in Economic-Legal Speciality, University of Deusto (1979-1984)
 Diploma in Public Policy Evaluation
Languages: Basque, Spanish and English
EXPERIENCE
County Council Deputy Chair, Lieutenant of General Deputy and Spokesman of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (2011 - 2012)
Attorney of General Assemblies of Bizkaia from July 2011 to December 2012
Foral Deputy for Social Action of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (2003-2007 and 2007-2011) .Spokesman since 2010
General Director of the Public Administration and Legal Department of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia(1994-2003)
Director of Services in the Home Affairs Department, Basque Country Government (1991-1994)
Officer of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia since 1986

Mrs. Neamtan is President/Executive Director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale, a non-profit organisation representing networks of social enterprises (cooperatives and non-profits), local development organisations and social movements. The mission of the Chantier de l’économie sociale is the promotion and development of collective entrepreneurship.

Mrs Neamtan was the founder (1997) and President of RISQ (Réseau d’investissement social du Québec), a 15$ million investment fund dedicated to the non-profit and cooperative sector. Since November 2006, she is President of the Fiducie du Chantier de l’économie sociale, a 53$ million investment fund for collective enterprises.

Ms Neamtan is also co-chair of the newly created Centre for knowledge transfer in social innovation TIESS, bringing together universities and social economy actors to share lessons from national and international experiences.

Mrs Neamtan is recognised internationally as an expert on the social and solidarity economy, working in collaboration with international organisations such as the International Labour Organisation and RIPESS, the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social and Solidarity Economy.

In 2012, Mrs Neamtan was appointed Officer of the Ordre National du Québec. In 2013 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Université du Québec.

Dr. Pascal van Griethuysen joined UNRISD in September 2014 to coordinate the Sustainable Development Programme. Trained in both conventional and heterodox economics, his research focuses on the intersection between economics and the environment, having published extensively on ecological, critical institutional and ownership economics as alternative perspectives on development.
Prior to joining UNRISD, Pascal worked for 15 years at the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies where he coordinated the teaching and research programme on sustainable development. During his time there, he conducted a number of research projects in collaboration with UN agencies, international civil society and national public agencies. Previously he acted as research consultant and policy adviser for public and private agencies at local, regional, national and international levels.
Pascal holds a M.Sc. in Political Economy from the University of Lausanne and a M.Sc. in International Relations from the University of Geneva. His Ph.D. is from the University of Geneva in which he investigated the potential of evolutionary economics for sustainable development, a process-oriented economic perspective that acknowledges the complex, multidimensional and evolving nature of interactions between human beings and their ecological context.

Sergio Arzeni is the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Local Development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France.

The Centre oversees the work of the Programme on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, the Tourism Committee, and the OECD-LEED Trento Center for Local Development in Italy.

His work focuses mostly on entrepreneurship and innovation, on job creation and social cohesion, on SME financing and internationalization, on business clusters and area-based approaches to economic development and community capacity building.

Mr. Arzeni has worked at the OECD for nearly 30 years as a senior economist publishing several reports and supervising a wide range of publications on the areas under his responsibility. He is also Senior Enterprise Fellow at the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex, U.K.

Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Arzeni served as an economist for the Italian Parliament, the Italian Trade Unions and the European Commission.
As an economic journalist he has contributed to several Italian and international newspapers.

He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Political Science from the University of Rome and specialised in Industrial Economics at the International University Institute of Luxembourg and in International Economic Relations at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., USA. He speaks French, Spanish, English, German and Italian.

Park Won Soon was born in a village in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, on March 26, 1956. He graduated from Kyunggi High School in 1974 and entered Seoul National University in 1975. Shortly after entering university, he was arrested for participating in a student rally against the militant dictatorship of President Park Chung Hee and imprisoned for 4 months and expelled from university. Later, he entered Dankook University and earned a bachelor’s degree in history.

Park passed the state bar examinations in 1980, and worked as a public prosecutor in the Daegu District Court in Gyeongsang Province from 1982 to 1983. Returning to Seoul from Daegu, he launched into private law practice. He worked as a human rights lawyer and defended many political activists in the 1980s and 1990s.


In 1991, Park traveled with his family to London and earned a diploma in international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the University of London in 1992. In 1993, he went to the US to take up a position as visiting research fellow in the Human Rights Program of the School of Law in Harvard University.

Back in South Korea, in 1994, Park founded the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, a non-profit, non-partisan civic organization formed with the purpose of promoting participatory democracy and securing human rights in South Korea.

In 2000, Park founded the Beautiful Foundation, with the aim of promoting a culture of philanthropy in South Korea. And in 2002, he founded the Beautiful Store, a second-hand store aiming to spread the culture of giving and sharing with others.

In 2006, Park founded the Hope Institute, a think-tank with the goal of applying policy alternatives based on the ideas of ordinary citizens.

Park was elected as Mayor of Seoul, South Korea on October 26, 2011. He was elected as an independent candidate, with the support of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Labor Party. He joined the Democratic United Party on February 23, 2012.

“Sustainability in Social Economy: Seoul Case Study”

Seoul has devised and is implementing a comprehensive supporting policy to build a sustainable ecosystem, rather than the existing social enterprise development policy focusing on quantitative growth. It is promoting various policies such as enlargement of public purchase, establishment of a systematic interim support system, local development business for creation of regional ecosystem, discovery of innovative social enterprises solving social problems, and marketing support for excellent social enterprises, etc.

These various social enterprise policies consistently aim at mutual solidarity and cooperation, and building of confidence. By doing so, Seoul tries to suggest alternatives and hopes for solving all sorts of our society’s issues such as jobs and local welfare.

Diplômes et formation
1975 : Bac C, mention TB
1980 : diplômé de l’Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
1986 : reçu au concours d'Ingénieur des Services Techniques - Ponts et Chaussées de la Ville de Paris
2004 : auditeur à l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN - 159ème SR)

Parcours professionnel
2012 : Directeur Général de la SEMAEST, Société d’Economie Mixte d’Animation Economique au Service des Territoires et Président de la Foncière Paris Commerces fondée avec la Caisse des Dépôts

2008: Directeur Général de la Propreté et de l’Eau (DPE)

direction de 8000 agents, dotée d’un budget global de 400 M€ hors personnels et exerçant des missions de service public et de salubrité 24h/24 : collecte des déchets et gestion des déchets, entretien de l’espace public, verbalisation des insalubrités, exploitation du réseau d’assainissement, définition de la politique des eaux…

2006: Directeur adjoint des Achats, de la Logistique, des Implantations administratives et des transports

gestion, modernisation et développement de toutes les composantes d’une direction transversale de service, forte de 2000 agents, avec notamment la rationalisation de l’achat public et la mise en œuvre d’un Schéma Directeur des Implantations Administratives visant au regroupement immobilier des services centraux des directions municipales.

2000 : Ingénieur général, chef du service technique des Transports Automobiles Municipaux

modernisation, management et gestion d’un service industriel et commercial (500 agents) doté d’un budget annexe et certifié ISO 9001 ; mise en œuvre de la politique municipale en matière de transport dans un cadre de rigueur, de transparence, d’économies et de développement durable ; mise en place des structures de réponse 24h/24 aux situations de crises et urgences.

1996 : Ingénieur en chef, à la Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements, adjoint au Directeur et délégué général du Club du véhicule électrique de Paris

1993-96: détaché au Brésil, à Curitiba (capitale de l’Etat du Paraná), dans le cadre du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (statut diplomatique)

Directeur exécutif de l'Institut International de Gestion Technique du Milieu Urbain (formation de troisième cycle pour les élus et les gestionnaires de ville)

Vice-président de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie franco-brésilienne

Conseiller auprès du gouverneur de l'Etat du Paraná – Brésil, en charge du développement économique et de l’attraction d’investissements industriels étrangers

négociateur pour l’Etat du Paraná dans le cadre de l’appel d’offres inter-Etats lancé par l’entreprise Renault en vue de son l’implantation au Brésil, le succès du Paraná ayant permis l’implantation d’un grand pôle industriel dédié à la construction automobile et la création de plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’emplois directs et indirects.

1991-92 : Conseiller technique, puis Directeur de cabinet de l’adjoint au Maire de Paris chargé de la circulation, du stationnement, des transports et de la voirie

définition, approbation en Conseil de Paris puis mise en place de la nouvelle politique de partage de l’espace public.

1987-90 : Ingénieur des Services Techniques, chargé des 3ème et 4ème arrondissements à la Direction de l'Architecture de la Ville de Paris (SLA 1234)

construction-réhabilitation de bâtiments publics (musées, collèges, écoles…), entretien du patrimoine bâti municipal, relations avec les SEM

1986-87 : formation en génie urbain et action publique à l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, devenue en 1987 Master d’Action Publique

1981 : Ingénieur des travaux à la direction de la voirie de la Ville de Paris

Autres activités professionnelles
Certification qualité

• auditeur interne qualité ISO 9001

Actions de coopération technique internationale

• responsable de missions à l’étranger, dans le cadre de la coopération technique de la Ville de Paris : montage de projets sur financements multilatéraux et gestion des opérations correspondantes (Asie, Amérique latine…)

• directeur du projet « réhabilitation urbaine du quartier de São Cristovão » à Rio de Janeiro sur financement MAE et Ville de Paris…


Gestion de crises

• nombreuses missions humanitaires au nom de la Ville de Paris (au Nicaragua et Honduras, après le passage du cyclone "MITCH», en Turquie après le séisme de 1999, au Pérou : identification des projets de reconstruction et suivi des programmes retenus et subventionnés)

• gestion opérationnelle de la canicule d’août 2003 (notamment prise en charge des corps)

• mise en place du dispositif municipal de gestion opérationnelle des crises et des urgences

• expert du programme européen SETRIC de gestion des risques - Security and Trust in Cities

Langues pratiquées
portugais et anglais lus, écrits et parlés couramment
espagnol lu et compris, bases d’allemand et notions d’italien

Erdem joined Social Finance in June 2014 as a consultant. He works on international Social Impact Bond market development and explores different partnerships and services which have the potential to facilitate social impact bonds in new markets, as well as advising governments, investors and social organizations. Erdem has worked on initiatives to develop the Danish and Brazilian markets, and prior to joining Social Finance advised the municipality of Copenhagen on economic outcomes and available interventions for health and wellbeing, with a focus on increased physical activity. Erdem’s previous experience is as an entrepreneur whose company, Wedecide.com, facilitated citizen engagement on local and national policy; as business development manager of MYC4.com, a peer-to-peer lending microfinance platform; and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Istanbul. Erdem has a Master of Public Policy from Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley.

Geraldine’s background is community research and development, with a focus on engaging communities in improving public services and regenerating neighbourhoods. From 1993-2003 she set up and ran a community consultancy, GAP Research, specialising in training and supporting residents and public sector agencies to collaborate on service improvement. During this time she chaired the award winning Get Set regeneration programme, which supported local people to develop ‘Citizen’s Strategies’ to tackle long standing local problems.
In 2003, Geraldine joined Community Links, an innovative community organisation that tackles the causes and consequences of exclusion in east London. She set up Links UK, which shares experience from the ground up with practitioners and policy makers nationwide through a programme of publications, events, research and campaigning, and practitioner led consultancy and training. In 2009, Geraldine became Chief Executive of Community Links, and since then has led the organisation through significant changes as public sector funding has rapidly reduced, doubling independent and earned income whilst consolidating and redesigning services to the community.
In 2010, Geraldine was awarded the BITC Marks & Spencer Sieff Award for individuals who have best collaborated with business to benefit society. Geraldine chairs the London Region of Locality, and is also a Director of the Employment Related Services Association.

Ken Ito works for AVPN as Regional Head (East Asia). He has a bachelor degree in economics and MBA in International Management from The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in the United States. Ken spent ten years in the private sector, with his last position at GE Capital. He subsequently joined the Institute for Strategic Leadership (ISL) to launch the Center for Social Innovation, to promote social innovation through its leadership training programs.

He has also organized the Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) in Japan award, part of the global SEOY program of Schwab Foundation in Switzerland. Ken had been a partner at Social Venture Partners Tokyo from 2005 to 2012, running its venture philanthropy fund to support and nurture local social entrepreneurs. He has been actively promoting SVP’s model in Japan and other Asian countries and successfully supported the launch of VP organizations in Singapore and Hong Kong. He is visiting senior researcher at SFC Research Institute at Keio University since 2007. Ken teaches at Graduate School of Media and Governance as Lecturer and conduct research programs as Project Research Associate from 2010.

Linda Gibbs served as New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services from 2005-2013.
Supervising the city’s human service, public health and social justice agencies, she spearheaded major initiatives on poverty alleviation, juvenile justice reform and obesity reduction. “Age Friendly NYC”, a blueprint for enhancing livability for older New Yorkers; and “Young Men’s Initiative”, addressing race-based disparities facing Black and Latino young men in the areas of health, education, employment training and the justice system, are two of the collaborative efforts she shaped to address significant social challenges. Gibbs also improved the use of data and technology in human service management, contract effectiveness, and evidence-based program development. During her tenure, New York City has been the only top-20 city in the U.S. whose poverty rate did not increase while the national average rose 28%.
Prior to her appointment as Deputy Mayor, Gibbs was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Homeless Services and held senior positions with the Administration for Children’s Services and the Office of Management and Budget

Dr Linda Shaw is Vice Principal at the Co-operative College in Manchester where she is responsible for the research and international programmes. The College currently works with co-operatives in more than 15 countries including the UK to deliver education and capacity building programmes; work with schools and young people; manage the Rochdale Pioneers Museum and the National Co-operative Archive as well as carry out research. The College works in partnership with the co-operative movement, universities, UN agencies, NGOs and African Co-operative Colleges.
She has experience in developing and teaching a wide range of programmes for the co-operative movement in the UK and internationally for both members and staff. She has also carried out research into co-operative development in the UK and Africa. Linda has published extensively on co-operatives, labour studies and ethical trade. Her current research interests include co-operatives and their history in international development as well contemporary gender challenges for the movement. Linda has contributed at many co-operative and academic conferences in the UK and internationally.
Prior to joining the College, Linda taught at the University of Manchester. She has also held positions with the International Labour Organisation in India and with the Open University in the UK as an associate lecturer.

Megan Golden is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Child Success, a U.S.-based NGO, where she provides technical assistance to jurisdictions seeking to use SIBs to improve outcomes for children. She conducted a feasibility study on SIB financing for an early childhood program in South Carolina, served on the advisory group for McKinsey & Company’s work on social impact bonds, and has published extensively on SIBs and performance measurement. She is also a Fellow at the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service’s Innovation Labs. From 1999-2011, Megan was the Director of Planning and Government Innovation at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she worked in partnership with government to implement innovations in criminal justice, juvenile justice, child welfare, school safety, mental health, and eldercare. In addition to creating and launching eight innovative programs, she led a major reform of New Orleans's criminal justice system and helped Chinese academics and officials pilot criminal justice reforms. In addition to her work at Vera, Megan directed the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service from 2006 - 2009. Megan practiced law from 1992-1994 as a Skadden Fellow at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. In 1994, she was awarded a White House Fellowship. Megan began her career working for New York City government as an Urban Fellow. She has a BA in political science from Brown University and a JD magna cum laude from New York University School of Law

･Enter Shinjuku municipal high school in evening classes.
･Oct. 1996 - Oct. 2003 and Sep. 2005 - Aug. 2009: Member of the House of Representatives (as third term).
･Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2010: Counselor of the Ministry of Public Management.
･Apr. 2011 - Present: Mayor of the City of Setagaya

1. EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Year School / Institution
1969 - 1971 Tumpat Primary School, Kelantan
1972 - 1974 Ketereh English School, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
1975 - 1977 Ketereh Secondary School, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
1978 - 1979 Sultan Ismail College, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
1983 - 1985 Kota Bharu Teachers’ Training College, Kelantan
2009 – 2012 The National University of Malaysia

2.ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

MALAYSIA CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION - 1979
TEACHING CERTIFICATE - 1985
DEGREE IN EDUCATION MANAGEMENT - 2012


3. WORKING EXPERIENCE

Year Position / Work location

1986 – 1991 Teacher / Chong Hwa Secondary School, Kuala Lumpur
1992 – 1996 Afternoon Supervisor / Chong Hwa Secondary School, Kuala Lumpur
1997 – 1998 Teacher / Chong Hwa Secondary School, Kuala Lumpur
1999 - 2000 Teacher / Seri Melati Primary School, Kuala Lumpur
2000 – 2008 Supervisor (co-curricular)/ Kuala Lumpur Education Department
2008 - 2009 Senior Assistant (Students Affair) / Pasar Road Primary School ( 1 ), Kuala Lumpur
2009 - 2011 Headmaster / Bukit Pantai Primary School, Kuala Lumpur
2011 – 2013 Senior Supervisor / Co-curricular and Arts Division
Ministry of Education, Malaysia
2013 to Present Assistant Director /Co-curricular and Arts Division
Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Rashed is a Software Engineer and ICT4D Specialist at BRAC Social Innovation Lab where he assists the development programmes to adopt appropriate technology. Besides managing the technology components of the projects of Social Innovation Lab, he develops and customizes softwares to fit the unique need of BRAC. Currently he is leading the software development of Innovation Fund for mobile money project and is also a member of the data management advisory committee at BRAC. Before joining BRAC he contributed in the Mozilla Bangladesh community and openSUSE Bangladesh. He has deep interest in data science and data management. Rashed studied Computer Science and Engineering at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

Anjali is an Officer with the BRAC Social Innovation Lab and helps BRAC programmes to conduct due diligence on new innovations, and to incorporate new ICT4D solutions BRAC's activities. She also does field-based explorations to identify scope for new processes and technologies with a focus on mobile based and open source tools. Before joining BRAC she completed a Diploma in Social Innovation at Lund University Internet Institute, Sweden. She also worked at Ashoka as a consultant and relaunched Ashoka Bangladesh. She spoke at TEDx events in Hong Kong and Netherlands about social entrepreneurship. Anjali has a Bachelor in Business Administration with a major in Finance from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Anna Randle is Head of Strategy at London Borough of Lambeth, an inner London council. She has responsibility for implementing Lambeth's 'cooperative council' ambitions, focused on tranforming the way the council works to create a more equal relationship between citizens and the state. Anna is responsible for leading a number of projects which are exploring new ways of empowering citizens to influence decisions in their local area and build stronger communities. Anna has a background in policy development and research, partciculalry focused on modermising local government and public service reform. She has worked for a number of UK based think tanks including the Royal Society of Arts (www.theRSA. org) and the New Local Government Network (www.nlgn.org.uk) and has written a number of pamphlets and articles on issues such as re-shaping the relationships between public services and citizens, managing demand for public services, and new models of governance and finance for local government. Anna also spent two years working as a Special Advisor to the Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Local Government and the Secretary of State for Transport under the Labour Government.

International Cooperative Alliance ICA 2013
Member of the Global Board 2010-2013
Consumer Cooperatives World Wide CCW
President 2010-2013
Cooperatives Europe
Vice Chair 2002-2010
Euro Coop
Member of the Presidency 2010-2013
President 2006-2010
Vice President 2003-2006
Member of the Board 1999-2003
SOK Corporation, Helsinki, Finland
Director international relations and public relations 1999
Member of the SOKL Association board 2008-2009 Responsible for Sponsorship agreements and market awareness actions for entire S- Group Development and co-ordination of all market research activities on corporate level Lectures and training on marketing for management Director
Marketing Services 1990-1999
Responsible for the internal advertising agency of over 30 people
Managed successfully the implementation of desk-top publishing network
Responsible for all nationwide media and printing contracts
In charge of customer loyalty program, biggest and most successful in Finland, the S-Card Exceeded operational and financial objectives every year
Advertising Agency Markkinointi Topitörmä Oy (at present Publicis Törmä Ltd.)
Director, Market Research 31.1.1990
Leader of market research activities
In charge of new customer acquisitions
Finnish Rails / Passenger Traffic 1.4.1988-31.10.1989
Marketing Manager, Passenger Traffic
Leader of nationwide marketing and sales team
Development of service products through branding (e.g. concept 'InterCity')
Finnish Rails / Cargo 21.4.1980-31.3.1988
Manager, Marketing Planning
Development of new cargo service products and associated advertising and sales campaigns (member of the team which successfully launched 'Transpoint' service) Market research studies Activities for development of company brand and imago
Marketindex Oy (at present A.C. Nielsen) 19.12.1972-17.4.1980
Market Researcher 1968-72
Responsible for special analysis and testing Short term tasks during University's summer breaks: Finnish Foreign Ministry, Union Bank, Sinebrychoff

Present

Founder & CEO - Orgdot Corp. (Ethical Fashion Company / Social Enterprise)
Founder - Ethical Fashion Network Korea
Board of 'Social Enterprise Association of Korea, Seoul' President of 'Social Economy Network of Mapo'

Past

Experienced IT and On-line business 2004. Empas corp. : Search Engine Planning 2007. Naver Corp. : Application Plannin

A designer, entrepreneur and local manufacturing advocate with 10 years experience in the apparel industry, Ms. Bland founded Manufacture New York, a fashion incubator/factory hybrid, in 2012 to provide independent designers with the resources & skills to streamline their production process & transform local manufacturing into the most affordable, innovative option for all.
Ms. Bland founded contemporary streetwear brand, Brooklyn Royalty, in 2006 with the specific purpose of making the entire collection in New York City. She was inspired by the fiercely independent spirit and highly individual aesthetic of King’s County residents. A professional apparel + graphic designer by trade, her previous experience includes Marc by Marc Jacobs, Triple Five Soul, Rugby by Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Banana Republic. Bob combines timeless design principles, premium materials and hand-printed graphics to create garments that are meant to look and wear better over time.

Carlo Dellasega has been General Manager of the Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione since 2004. His human and professional paths has always been inspired by cooperative values. Graduated with honors at the Department of History of the Credit Cooperative Movement at the University of Urbino (central Italy), he has been working in the credit union sector since the early 80s as consultant, auditor, deputy director and general manager of credit unions. His sense of responsibility, perseverance and firm adherence to the cooperative values have also inspired volunteering experiences in Africa and South America. He cooperated with the cooperative societies of those countries for the establishment of local credit unions, in collaboration with the Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione and the solidarity cooperative ‘Il Canale’ (the channel). Carlo Dellasega demonstrates his strong civil and social commitment by being member of several local administration bodies. He also serves the community as promoter and vice-president of the 1985 Stava Foundation, a commemorative body of the Stava tragedy that hit the Trentino region in 1985.

1999 Graduated from Seoul National University 2000 Planning team leader and founding director of ANSAN MEDICAL COOPERATIVE 2009 ~ present Chairperson of Ansan Medical Welfare Social Cooperative 2010 ~ present Co-CEO & Policy Commissioner of Korea Central Council of Social Enterprise 2014 ~ present Co-CEO of Korea Medical Welfare Social Cooperative Association 2014 ~ present Co-CEO of Gyeongido

Mr. Yoo has served at France’s Lancôme Cosmetics in Seoul, Korea for a several years as Marketing Manager, and joined the Canadian Embassy, Seoul in 1991 as Attaché commercial of the Québec Government representation in Seoul, Korea.

In April, 1997, Mr. Yoo was named as Representative of the Québec Government in Korea.

Cliff is one of the founders of the Social Enterprise movement in the UK and manager of England’s first Community Cooperative. He also set up a successful managed workspace company in the 1980s. He has pioneered work on legal structures, social auditing and licensing and new practices on social enterprise governance and management. As Managing Director of Social Enterprise Europe Ltd he introduced the concept of social enterprise to many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. He is currently the UK representative on the Board of the Euclid network of third sector leaders.

Dong Su Yang is the Standing lawyer of Dongcheon Inc. He is a adjunct professor of several law schools including Korea University Law School and a board member of Seoul Social Economy Network and Social Innovation Space ‘There.’

Dongjin Lee, the Mayor of Dobong-gu, has considered “People come first” as the core value of his second term. He has also put an emphasis on education, culture, ecology, welfare as well as economy. By participating in the Association of Korean Local Governments for Social Economy and Solidarity, he has continually interacted with other local governments for the development of social economy in Dobong-gu. He holds his Bachelor degree from the Department of English from Korea University and his Masters degree from the Graduate School of Urban Science from the University of Seoul.

Dongrok Suh started his career at the Ministry of Finance and Economy and was a Deputy Director at Financial cooperation division when he left the ministry to pursue his MBA at Yales School of Management. He worked at McKinsey and Company Partner until 2014 and is now sitting as a Deputy Mayor for Economic Planning at Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Dongwei Liu is TrustLaw Programme Director of Thomson Reuters Foundation. He is based in Beijing and works mainly on introducing TrustLaw to China and East Asia, which connects high-impact NGOs and social enterprises with the best law firms willing to provide free legal assistance. Dongwei is the first person from Thomson Reuters Foundation to oversee and develop the programme in China and East Asia. Currently there’re about 150 organisations in the region using TrustLaw service.
Before joining the Foundation in 2011, Dongwei was a journalist in China reporting social issues, financial news, Chinese foreign affairs and emergencies such as Sichuan Earthquake. Dongwei holds an LLB from Peking University in International Cross-Cultural Communication and a BA from Tianjin Polytechnic University majoring in English.

Dwinita Larasati was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, and moved to Bandung when she started studying industrial design at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB). She pursued her study at Design Academy Eindhoven and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, focusing on the issues of bamboo, appropriate technology, community development and sustainability. She returned to Bandung in 2007, and currently works as a lecturer and researcher at the Industrial Design Program, Faculty of Arts and Design ITB. She became one of the founders of Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF) that was established in 2008, and has since been active in this organization, as coordinator of Creative Entrepreneur Network – BCCF (2008-2012) and General Secretary (2013-2017). She also belongs to The Climate Reality Project and is the Indonesian liaison for O2 Global Network, next to having an independent publication company that focuses on graphic diary.

Euiyoung Kim is a political science professor at Seoul National University. His main researches include comparative politics, civil society and governance. He is leading the studies on cooperatives and social economy at Asia Research Institute, Seoul National University as the director of Democracy and Economic Development Program. He wrote many books including <Politics of Governance> (2014).

She graduated from Ewha Woman’s University majoring in Social Welfare Studies both as BA and MA. She is now studying for PhD at graduate school of business administration at the same university. She had spent ten years establishing and managing ‘Mixed Stakeholder’s Day Care Cooperative.’ At the same time, she was promoting for amendment of ‘Child Welfare Act’ and enactment of ‘Infant Care Act’ under the mission called ‘Giving Right to Work to the Women, Right to Receive Protective Education.’ Confronted with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, she concentrated herself on ‘Creating Alternative Works for the Jobless and Women without Family through Social Economy’, thus pioneering in establishment of ‘Social Enterprise Finance’, ‘Social Enterprise Business School’ and ‘Conglomerate’s CSR and Partnership’ at Work Together Foundation which is the main backup institution in Korea. In 2010, she established SEED:S corporation, encouraging the youth to become the main agents of local social innovation through social economy. She also participated in the works of Presidential Committee on Social Inclusion as an expert adviser and in TFT of Social Enterprise Promotion Act pushing forward with policy suggestions. Since the beginning of the year 2013, she has been in charge of the role of supporting inclusively the social economy institutions and policies of Seoul.

EunKyung is a research fellow of the Hope Institute. She earned Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research area focuses on digital diaspora on the Internet, migrants and media use, and mediated practices of tourism in global/digital media era

Deputy Minister of Ministry of labor Professor, National Chung Cheng University Ph. D., Jura, Universite de Droit, d’Economie et de Sciences sociales (Paris 2), France

Fiki Satari was born and raised in Bandung, Indonesia, and gained his degrees in the field of Management from the Faculty of Economy, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, where he currently lectures. In 1998, he established AirplaneSystm, a clothing brand that thrives up to today. He is experienced in a number of organizations and communities: as co-founder and head of Independent Clothing Community (KICK), a representative for creative design commission of West Java Trade and Industry Chamber (KADIN), head of the management team that prepares Bandung to become a member of UNESCO Creative City Network (since 2012), and one of the founders of Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF) in 2008. He held the position as the program director of BCCF (2008-2012) and chairman (2013-2017)

Florence Hui is currently Under Secretary for Home Affairs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The key policy areas covered by the bureau include culture and sports, district administration, youth development and social enterprises.
Prior to joining Government, Florence was Head of Business Planning and Development for North East Asia of Standard Chartered PLC, responsible for strategy development and corporate governance. Before Standard Chartered, she was management consultant with McKinsey & Company advising international and regional institutions.
In 2007, Florence served the industry body, Hong Kong Association of Banks, as Secretary and was Part-Time Member of Government’s Central Policy Unit in 2008.
Florence was graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Cambridge University in the UK. She further completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School and Tsinghua University.

In 2014, François Comet joined GROUPE SOS (www.groupe-sos.org), a leading non-profit organization in the field of social entrepreneurship in Europe, as a Vice President for International Development.
Prior to this appointment François was deputy to the Chief Regulatory Officer of the France Telecom Orange Group and before that held various executive positions in the France Telecom Orange Group related to international business development and strategy.
François’s credentials include also large account management, innovation strategy and venture management. He served as a Senior Vice President for France Telecom Orange Corporate Innovation and as a CEO for France Telecom Capital Development
François worked in the United States and served four years in Telecom Argentina before becoming responsible for the European development and roll out of France Telecom activities in Europe.
François served as a board member for both startups and large companies including Telmex.
Born in Nice, France, François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He is fluent in French, English, Spanish, German and Russian.

1998: Graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Mineyama High School
2002: Started career at Computation System Division at Mineyama Town Office
(2004: Six towns were merged into Kyotango City.)
2004: Officer for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities at Mineyama Citizens Bureau at Mayor Department of Kyotango City
2006: Officer of livelihood Protection at Living Welfare Division at Health Welfare Department at Mayor Department
2011: Officer of "Life" and "Job" Support Center
2013: Head Counselor at "Life" and "Job" Support Center

Chairperson of the Korea Council of Fair Trade Organizations (KFTO)
CEO of Asia Fair Trade Network
Former secretary general of Beautiful Coffee
Former secretary general of Beautiful Store

Director, Global Political Economy Institute. He has been under the heavy influences of Karl Polanyi and Thorstein Veblen for two decades and is trying to mold a framework of historical and institutional economics that can better explain the ongoing evolution of capitalism. He is the author of Ernst Wigforss: Provisionary Utopia in Swedish Social Democracy; Key Concepts, Capitalism; For the Livelihood Economics. He is also an ardent translator of Karl Polanyi’s work into Korean. Among the works by Polanyi translated by him are The Great Transformation, Dahomey and the Slave Trade, For a New West. His selection/ translation of Polanyi’s work, Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning, includes some of Polanyi’s unpublished writings. He also edited and translated Thorstein Veblen’s On the Nature of Capital.

Grace is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Hub Singapore, a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs in Singapore and the Advisor to the Malaysian Government (MaGIC) on its national initiative for Social Entrepreneurship.
She is regarded as the node of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Asia and speaks widely on that topic. Interested in ecosystem building and policy development for social enterprises, she has been invited by the Prime Minister’s Office in Singapore to share her inputs and is a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD and a TEDx Singapore speaker. She is also the founder of Books for Hope, a social enterprise in childrens' education in Indonesia. Currently advising the Malaysian government on its national strategy for Social Entrepreneurship. Under a wider entrepreneurship fund, the national initiative includes venture support, education, community building, policy and ecosystem design to elevate social entrepreneurship as a strategy for economic and societal sustainability.

Mayor for Information Technology and CIO (Chief Information Officer) of Seoul Metropolitan City. His expertise is planning big data- based services for city administration and sustainability.
Prior to joining Seoul City, Dr. Kim led the Daumsoft Inc., a text mining / big data company, for twelve years as CEO and successfully analyzed customer demands to provide customized marketing and planning strategies to major companies.
He is in his second year with Seoul City since February 2013 and has led the e-government policy-making and project implementation. Under the slogan of ‘Communicate on Mobile and Innovate with Big Data,’ he is pushing forward the development of the citizen-centered mobile services and the transformation into the mobile-based public service delivery. Recently, he led the application of big data for the post-midnight bus route design, drawing attention from home and abroad. New challenges of applying big data to public transportation are underway which include taxi matchmaking service and reduction of car accident.
He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in Korea and studied for PhD. the natural language processing for human-machine interaction.
Introduction Myeong Sin Kim was the 8th Seoul city councilor (Education Committee, Free School Meal Special Committee). She was co-representative of Citizen Movement for Educational Reformation and Cultural Action, and the member of Private Cchool Disputes Mediation Committee and Planning Advisor Committee, Ministry of Education.

Co-representative / Mapo People’s House Executive Director / Mapo Medical Cooperative Chief Director / Woori Animal Hospital Cooperative

Present
Social science professor at Sungkonghoe University (82-2-2610-4235) Academic Background Graduated from the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University MA, PhD. in Sociology at Texas State University (Austin, US)


Career
1994 Visiting researcher at Seoul Research Institute
2002 Visiting researcher at California State University (Riverside)
2008 Visiting researcher at York University and Toronto University in Canada

Gyeyeol Lee is the chief of Social Innovation Department, Seoul Metropolitan Government. He began his public career as the public relations team leader of Public Relations Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government. He is currently working for the Social Innovation Division and trying to solve various social issues that Seoul faces by realizing sharing economy.

LEE Haesik, the Mayor of Gangdong-gu, considered ‘warm-hearted people of Gangdong’ as the principle of Gangdong-gu in 2008. He has done his best to make ’a community with warm-hearted people.’ Mayor LEE was elected as the youngest member of Gangdong-gu Council by the largest number of votes and built a career in the field of civil society. He has also concentrated on community sustainability by practicing local community and urban agriculture. He has participated in the Association of Korean Local Governments for Social Economy and Solidarity as a member to make an exchange with local governments for the development of social economy. He received his Masters degree from the Department of Political Science from Seogang University and his Ph.D from the Department of Urban Administration from University of Seoul.

Professional Activity: Vice President of CIRIEC International 2010 to date, Member of the Scientific Committee of Mont-Blanc Meetings 2013 to date, Invited Professor, Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université Louis Pasteur,France. 2004, Chairman of the Labor division of the evaluation committee for Incorporated Administrative Agency of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, 2011 to date
Research Field: Social Enterprise, Labor Economics, Social and Solidarity Economy
Recent Publicaions and Accademic Presentations :
“The Institutional and legislative development of social economy in Asia,” Invited Speech for the 30th International Congress of CIRIEC International, Buenos-Aires, 29-31 October, 2014, ”The significance of human capital and social relations in the management of social enterprise and for the solidarity of plural organizations,” Invited speech for the 2014 Social Entrepreneurship International Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 12‐13, 2014, ”The significance of human capital and social relations for the solidarity of plural organizations in Urban and Regional Regeneration,” Invited speech for Social Enterprise Forum in 2014, “The Subject of Social Economy and Social Enterprise,” Seoul, Thursday, July 3, 2014, “Social Economy and Public Policy in Japan”, in Chaves, Rafael and Demoustier, Danièle eds. The Emergence of the Social Economy in Public Policy. An international analysis, Peter Lang Eds.. June, 2013, pp.311-334, . ”Relational skills for horizontal solidarity in Japan: Unique relational development in co-production among social economy, for-profit, and governmental organizations,” EMES-SOCENT Conference Selected Papers, 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, 2013.

Hee Yeon Cho is an educator and sociologist. He was the first secretary general at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, co-chairman of Professors for Democracy and professor at Sungkonghoe University.

Research Professor, Institute for Human Society, KyungHee University, PhD. in Political Science. Major research area includes NGO, governance, social innovation, peace studies, and public philosophy. He is a principal researcher of the SNU Asia Center co- operatives and social economy research project.

Ms. UEHARA Hiroko was born in 1949 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. After studying at the graduate school at Hosei University, she has held various posts successively as follows.

1989: Leader of Tokyo Citizens Network (Tokyo Seikatsusha Network)
1991: Member of the Municipal Assembly of Kunitachi City, Tokyo
1999: Elected to the Mayor of Kunitachi City. She was the first female mayor in Tokyo, and served two terms (8 years) until 2007.
Present: Secretary General of the Mayors for a Nuclear Power Free Japan (Datsu Genpatsu wo Mezasu Shuchō Kaigi)
She is also the author of many books and articles

Mr. Chua Hoi Wai is the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), which represents more than 400 non-governmental social services organisations. He set up the HKCSS – HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre in 2008 to provide capacity building, joint marketing and an exchange platform for local social enterprises.
Mr. Chua has participated in a number of advisory or statutory bodies of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He is currently a member of the Commission on Poverty and chairs its Special Needs Group Task Force, a Member of the Housing Authority and an Associate Member of the Central Policy Unit.
Mr. Chua is a social worker by profession. He was the President of the Hong Kong Social Workers Association (2004 – 2008), and also Founding Director of Dialogue-in-the-Dark Hong Kong.

Hong Seop Kim was the director of School Planning, Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development, president of Seoul Eduction Research & Information Institute and director of the Lifelong Education Bureau, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

Professor at Graduate School of Public Policy & Civic Engagement, Kyunghee university Director of International

Development Cooperation Research Center, Kyunghee university

Vice-president of Korean Association of International Development Cooperation

Former Global Facilitating Group member, Open Forum

Hyeonsuk Gang started her career in LG Group and took charge of service strategy, marketing and CSR in a leading internet online company in Korea. She is interested in the realization of an internet ecosystem rather than online intellectual properties.

I Gede Edy Purwaka was born in Yogyakarta, which is also known as student city. As student city Yogyakarta has eight public universities and more than one hundred twenty private universities.
My involvement in the community started when he was a volunteer in SATUNAMA’s mobile library for children. The library program campaigns for the rights of children using popular education media such as books with good moral values and telling stories. This approach become a model of integrated program where children and their parents get simultaneous treatment. During the periode this program conducted in four distric and municipality of Yogyakarta. While during the tsunami recovery process in Aceh 2004, Mobile library for children plays important role as a medium for children trauma healing tsunami’s victims.
In 2007-2009, I responsible for a education program called Resource Development Center. This program aimed to create facilitator from local NGO in Papua, eastern part of Indonesia.
Over the past two years, Me and my collegues develop an initiative for the knowledge management of Civil Society Organizations (CSO). This initiatives raise as a awareness of CSO has very weak bargaining position when vis a vis with state and business organization, the condition even worsen when CSO’s losing its key person in the organization. This initiative will ensure the knowledge will retain within the organization and finally CSO able to help community developing better.
Currently I serve as secretary of the Foundation SATUNAMA. My daily responsibilities as head of the department of domestic affairs is ensuring tangible and intagible assets of the institution are able to support the sustainability of the organization.

EDUCATION
Bachelor, Information Science - University of the Basque Country (1983-1988)
Languages: Spanish, Basque

EXPERIENCE
General Advisor of the Department of Presidency and Municipal Relations and the Department of Public Works and Transport of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (2011-2012)
General Advisor of the Department of Social Action and the Department of Urban Development and Transport of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (2003-2011)
Communication Advisor for the Departments of Social Action and Urban Development of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (1999-2003)
Director of the municipal Euskaltegi of Gueñes city (1987)
Editor of news programs in the radio Herri Irratia and the radio Radio Popular de Bilbao (1983-1999)

Seoul city’s future support direction for vitalization of school cooperatives. In Hong Jang is a Seoul city councilor and the member of Education Committee. He was the director of Policy Planning, Guro Citizen Center.

Chairman of Happy Bridge Cooperative
President of Korea Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Board director of Eroun Net (social enterprise)
Former head of the sales branch office of the Hankyereh Former board member of Bori Food & Consulting Co., Ltd.

Jaegyo Seo, Principal Research Engineer at Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute, majored in Business Administration. He thinks CSR, social enterprises and cooperatives can help corporate and society to exist in harmony. He focuses on sharing economy as the necessary concept for sustainability of ‘society.

1992~ present Executive director of North Seoul Credit Union
2000 ~ 2001 Bankruptcy trustee in KDIC Bankrupt Foundation Has MBA in the Graduate School of Business Administration, Konkuk University

Jay is Intel Corporate Affairs Group Manager and also in charge of Government Affairs in Korea working with government, policymakers, academia, educators, NPO/NGOs and other partners in order to create positive impact on the communities through K-12 & Higher Ed, STEM, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Community and Policy age.

Former chairperson of iCOOP Yangcheon Co-op & CEO of iCOOP COOP Store
Former president of iCOOP union
Focused on ethical consumption movement

Jihye has established a Social Enterprise helping Asian women through food business. Her original Enterprise was started since 2008 and the branch in Nepal and Thailand established in 2013. She mainly hired and trained women in need and victims of sex-trafficked young women in restaurant and caf?. During 2012 and 2013, she was member of Social Entrepreneur Society of Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Jinwoo Jung, a Director for Social Economy Division at Seoul Metropolitan Government, previously worked for the G20 Seoul Conference as a Director of Planning Division.

Joel Bashevikin works for Taproot foundation, San Francisco Bay Area as the Executive Director. With a focus on building a strong pro bono marketplace in the region, he leads the effort to engage business professionals, nonprofits and corporations in high quality, impactful pro bono engagements. Focused on consulting to organizations undergoing tremendous growth and organizational development, Joel’s nearly 30 year nonprofit career. He has also served on nonprofit boards and has consulted to organizations working in the areas of arts, disability, public health, domestic poverty and hunger.

Johanne Lavoie has worked for the City of Montreal public service since 2005 within the Economic Development Service as Social Economy Commissioner. She is responsible for Montreal’s Social Economy Partnership For Community-Based Sustainable Development.
Under the leadership of Johanne Lavoie, representatives of the social economy sector and the City of Montreal worked together to produce the first canadian municipal public policy on social economy. Since its approval in 2009 she has worked with the community, researchers as well as entrepreneurs, to develop social economy enterprises in Montreal. She frequently welcomes international delegation interested to foster the social economy sector. She is also involved in local funding committee and local coordination committee. She was nominated Practitioner of the Month by the Canadian Social Economy Hub in February 2010.

She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Université du Québec à Montréal and a M.A. in Geography from Université de Montréal. Prior to this, she was the general manager of a social economy business localized in the Technopôle Angus in Montreal.

Jonathan is a social entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded four startups across multiple industries. His latest venture was a startup distributing healthy organic and non-GMO food to corporations and universities. He partnered directly with sustainable local farmers and food manufacturers. Previously, through a fellowship from Columbia’s Earth Institute, Jonathan traveled to Rwanda to teach social entrepreneurship at a leadership academy and to conduct research on how to use entrepreneurship as a tool for conflict resolution. His other research includes a case study on entrepreneurship in rural India for Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a book about government and innovation with Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland. Jonathan mentored aspiring young entrepreneurs at Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Young Women Social Entrepreneurs, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation. He has also given a TEDx talk at Harvard.
Jonathan earned a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, MBA with a certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Jonathan was a recipient of Stanford GSB’s Miller Social Change Leadership Award, and was named Stanford’s iFarm Fellow, Catamount Venture’s Impact Investing Fellow, and Harvard Law School’s Digital Problem Solving Initiative Fellow.

Kim, Jong-su is a graduate of the department of Urban administrative at the Univ. of Seoul. He wrote the doctoral dissertation by “A Study on the Emergence and Operation of Community-Based Social Enterprise in Korea”. He works for the Chungnam Development Institute as senior Researcher. And he has participated in Research Forum for Social Economy Organizations (RFSEO). His work focuses on social enterprise, social economy, and community.

Jongick Jang is an assistant professor at the Graduate School for Social Innovation Business and College of Global Cooperation in Hanshin University. He graduated Yonsei University majoring in economics in 1986 and the Graduate School of Yonsei University in 1988. He worked at Korean Farmers Union as a policy staff from 1990 to 1993 during which he was aware of the potentials of cooperative movement for the transformation of Korean society from government-controlled to civil-controlled society. In 1994 he established Korea Research Institute of Cooperatives where he devoted himself to contribute to reformation of government-controlled agricultural cooperatives, rejuvenation of credit union, and development of consumer cooperatives for 10 years. Thereafter, he studied his Ph.D program in University of Missouri and obtained Ph.D degree in applied economics with focusing on organizational economics and new institutional economics. Dr. Jang is editor of Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, member of Council of Cooperative Policy in South Korea, and auditor of Federation of Hansalim. He has published dozens of papers and books regarding cooperatives, social enterprises, and economics of institutions.

YOO Jongpil, the Mayor of Gwanak-gu, has had various occupations such as journalist, spokesperson, and presidential secretary before serving as the Mayor of Gwanak-gu. Mayor YOO has emphasized ‘welfare based knowledge’ because he had many experiences relatied to humanity as the Director of the National Assembly Library from 2008 to 2010. From his experience as a journalist and spokesperson, he has done his best to communicate closely with citizens. He is currently a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Chungang University.

Reseach & Planning Director of Korea Federation of Worker Cooperatives Eui-Yeon Cooperation Design Center, Cooperation Designer Labor Corporation Eui-Yeon, Certified Public Labor Attorney Auditor of Korea Microcredit Joyful Union, Bucheon City’s Social Enterprise Council, No Threshold World (social cooperative)

Cofounder of Mondragon TiimiAkatemia (MTA) a 592 teamentrepreneurs international community with a shared mission: "We are teampreneurs making our dream become true learning & creating together".

Professor at Mondragon University since 2004 lecturing in MBA and masters specialized in Global Business, working co-operatives, social entrepeneurship & CSR strategies.
International researcher of MIK (Mondragon Innovation Knowledge) research centre. In June 2008 presented his PhD thesis "Mondragon Multilocalisation strategy: Innovating a Human Centred Globalisation".
Speaker at several international conferences in India, Norway, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, USA, SaudiArabia, China & Brazil, collaborate with different universities as CEIBS (Shanghai), Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), Harvard Business School and Stanford (Palo Alto).

As International project manager has 15 years of professional experience, both in business strategic consulting and international research & entrepreneurship education innovation.
He is also a social entrepreneur having cofounded several social business startups such as: “Viaje Solidario” a responsible tourism platform (2004), empathy consulting (CSR & leadership consulting) (2005), “EusKalAsia” Basque Country & Asia platform, Mondragon Team Academy (2008), or TZBZ innovation consultancy (2012).
Cofounder of Mondragon TiimiAkatemia (MTA) a 592 teamentrepreneurs international community with a shared mission: "We are teampreneurs making our dream become true learning & creating together".

Professor at Mondragon University since 2004 lecturing in MBA and masters specialized in Global Business, working co-operatives, social entrepeneurship & CSR strategies.
International researcher of MIK (Mondragon Innovation Knowledge) research centre. In June 2008 presented his PhD thesis "Mondragon Multilocalisation strategy: Innovating a Human Centred Globalisation".
Speaker at several international conferences in India, Norway, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, USA, SaudiArabia, China & Brazil, collaborate with different universities as CEIBS (Shanghai), Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), Harvard Business School and Stanford (Palo Alto).

As International project manager has 15 years of professional experience, both in business strategic consulting and international research & entrepreneurship education innovation.
He is also a social entrepreneur having cofounded several social business startups such as: “Viaje Solidario” a responsible tourism platform (2004), empathy consulting (CSR & leadership consulting) (2005), “EusKalAsia” Basque Country & Asia platform, Mondragon Team Academy (2008), or TZBZ innovation consultancy (2012).

Ma. Josefina (Joy) G. Belmonte-Alimurung also serves as Presiding Officer of the Quezon City Council, Officer-in-Charge of Tourism Development for Quezon City, Chairperson of Anti-Poverty Task Force, Vice-Chair of the Quezon City Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Committee, Vice Chairperson of Quezon City Housing Board and Co-Chairperson of Quezon City Film Development Commission. She is an advocate of women empowerment, the promotion of children’s development, and social entrepreneurship.

She is also the President of the Congressional Spouses Foundation, Inc.
She founded the Quezon City Performing Arts Foundation, a pool of world-class talents performing and winning competitions all over the world. Through this foundation, she provides young people from the poorest communities opportunities to uplift themselves through the performing arts.
Vice-Mayor Belmonte has an M.A. in Public Administration and Development from the University of Birmingham. She is an archeologist and museum manager by profession, and heads the conceptualization and design of the Quezon City Museum which will soon rise at the Quezon Memorial Circle.

KEY –Qualifications :
• 15 years executive management experience, including budgeting, field operations, training, coaching and supervision of staff, and legal representation.
• International development trajectory in social innovation, education, children’s rights, health, indigenous groups, rural development, and decentralization projects.
• A proven track record in the daily application of program appraisals, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of social development projects.
• Responsibilities include: strategic planning, capacity building, university-level teaching, qualitative research, and outcomes assessment.
• A Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from a prestigious US university, with development experience in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and an M.A. in International Administration.
• Professional interests: social entrepreneurship, earned-income strategies for non-profits; education; and ICTs for development.
• Fluent language skills in English, Spanish, French and Catalan (some Portuguese).
• Consultantexperience in Argentina, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, & USA.

Choi, Jun-kyu received the Ph.D from the Graduate School of Governance at the SungKyunKwan Univ. His doctoral dissertation is “Effect of policy instruments upon the performance of Social Enterprises: focusing on local preliminary social enterprise cases”. He currently works for the Gyeonggi Research Institute as research fellow and has participated in Research Forum for Social Economy Organizations(RFSEO). His interests include the social economy, civil society, governance and local council and so on. (e-mail: quinsy8@gmail.com)

Dr. Jungwon Kim is the co-founder of Spreadi. Spreadi is the UK-based enterprise founded in 2013 with a vision to spread ideas, innovation and inspiration that provide answers to previously unmet social needs. Its main emphasis lies on introducing and exchanging innovative and inspirational real cases, expertise and innovators across borders, especially between Europe and Asia. As the co-founder of Spreadi, Jungwon Kim frequently advises Korean and UK professionals in the social innovation and social economy sector to connect suitable partners and initiate collaboration. She has been also actively involved in various social innovation research projects that mainly look into real cases in Korea, Thailand, Japan, China, India and UK.

Between 2011 and 2014, she was the visiting researcher of the Social Innovation Center at the Hope Institute, which is the think-and-do pursuing citizen participation. During this period, she conducted the study of social innovation cases in Korea and Thailand by interviewing change makers in both nations. She also contributed to organise and run two international conferences (Asian NGO Innovation Summit 2013 and 2012).

Prior to working with the Hope Institute, she worked as a principal consultant at Entrue Consulting, LG CNS, and carried out several projects on creating a business strategy for IT departments of bluechip companies like LG Chemicals, LG Display, and Korean Pfizer etc. She was the research fellow at Department of Computer Science, University College London and the research associate at Department of Computer Science, King’s College London. She earned a PhD degree in Computer Science from University College London and a diploma degree in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University, where she met many inspiring scientists and experienced innovative approaches tackling social issues.

Dr. Kablae Kim is the chief of Corporate Policy Department at the Korea Capital Market Institute. He was admitted to the bar in New York, US. He was a professor at the Graduate School of Business, Sejong University. His researches include social finance, CSR, CSV, social venture and innovative finance.

1973 March – Graduated from Mechanical Engineering at Kyoto Prefectural Mine Yamataka School
1977 March – Graduated from Mechanical Engineering at Kanazawa University
1979 July – Worked at General Affairs Bureau, Jung Office, Yasaka, Kyoto
2004 April – Six Jungs merged into the Government Office of Kyotango-shi
2004 April – Yasaka Citizen’s Bureau, Mayor’s Office
2007 April – Worked at Department of Handicapped Welfare, Mayor’s Office
2011 April – Head of Yasaka Citizens’ Bureau, Mayor’s Office
2013 April – Head of General Inforamtion Support Center and Deputy Head of Healthy Longevity

Mr. OKAYASU Kisaburo is a researcher as well as a practitioner of cooperatives.
Okayasu was born into a rice farmer’s family as a third son in January 1948 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Faculty of Engineering in the University of Tokyo (UT), he worked for the UT consumer cooperative as a bookstore manager, general store manager and so forth; he then assumed the position of managing director. In 1985, Okayasu was transferred to the National Federation of University Co-operative Associations (NFUCA/Zenkoku Daigaku Seikatsu Kyōdōkumiai Rengōkai) as General Director, C.E.O. At that time he was also a board member of the Japan Consumer Co-operative Union (JCCU/Nihon Seikatsu Kyōdōkumiai Rengōkai).
In the beginning of this millennium, Okayasu joined a new cooperative movement, namely a worker cooperative movement. He now serves concurrently as the president of the Japan Institute of Co-operative Research (JICR/Kyōdō Sōgō Kenkyūjo) and the vice-president of the Japan Worker Co-operative Union (JWCU). Okayasu visited Korea many times to exchange activities among university cooperatives in Korea and Japan, and to carry out researches into social economy projects in Korea, including the enactment of the Social Enterprise Promotion Law and the Cooperative Basic Law, the Korean self-sufficiency promotion movement and so forth.

Rev. Kyong yong Song is a natural-born helper. He has spent most of his life in helping the poor and the disadvantaged. He started a number of shelters for the poverty-stricken people of urban area, ‘House of Sharing’, in early his career. He led many initiatives to solve social problems such as the poverty and the unemployment, collaborating with numerous partners around the world. Rev. Song played a key role in ‘National Basic Living Security Act’, which was a major leap in the social welfare system in Korea. Several social cooperatives and self-sufficiency enterprises in Korea were established by him and his colleagues, therefore he is considered to be one of early pioneers in the Korean social economy.

As an established thought leader and respected practitioner on social economy and social innovation, he has advised governments, multilateral organizations, communities and enterprises throughout the world. He is now the president of Seoul Social Economy Network, which is a ‘network of networks’ of social economy organizations in Korea. He also serves as a chairperson of Sharing and Future. He is leading many advisory groups for government, including Social Economy Policy Planning Group for the Seoul Metropolitan Government. Rev. Song founded Walking Church, an Anglican church in 2010.

Louise Pulford became Director of Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), the largest global social innovation network, when it formerly became an independent organization in January 2013. Louise has been responsible for the SIX network for the last 6 years whilst it was being incubated at the Young Foundation, Louise co wrote a Study on Social Innovation for the Bureau of European Policy Advisors and she co- manages the European consortium which has run Social Innovation Europe -the flagship network for social innovation for the European Commission. Louise regularly speaks on the value of networks, and delivers social innovation workshops all over the world.
Prior to running SIX, Louise worked on a variety of projects at the Young Foundation, including coordinating its international work and the development of the UpRising leadership programme. Prior to that, Louise worked at a small social issues consultancy firm in Beijing.

Louise was Chiar of Alec Dickson Trust, a charity giving small amounts of money to encourage young people to get involved in volunteering.

Lurina has been involved in social development work in the Philippines for more than 30 years, working with different NGOs/not-for-profit organizations focused on rural development, social entrepreneurship and enterprise development.
One of the founders of the Philippine Social Enterprise Network, Inc. (PHILSEN), a national coalition composed of more than 40 NGOs, cooperatives, social enterprises, microfinance institutions and networks engaged in social entrepreneurship and enterprise development aimed at poverty reduction, rural development, local economy development and sustainable development with the poor as the primary stakeholders. She is currently the executive director of PHILSEN.

Marguerite (Margie) Mendell is an economist and professor at the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University. She is also the co-founder and Director of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Montreal. She has published widely on the social economy in Quebec, local development, social finance, economic democracy and on the work of Karl Polanyi, especially as it relates to contemporary democratic economic development strategies. She has collaborated with social economy actors in developing public policy proposals at the provincial and municipal level in Quebec and has studied the evolving public policy landscape that enables the social economy internationally. In 1990, Professor Mendell co-founded the Montreal Community Loan Association, the first micro-finance organization in Canada. Since then, she has collaborated with social finance practitioners in Quebec. Margie Mendell is currently co-directing a university-community research partnership on “impact investing”. She was a member of the Canadian Advisory Committee of the G8 Task Force on Impact Investing. In 2009, Margie Mendell collaborated with practitioners to establish CAP Finance, the first network of solidarity finance and development capital in Quebec. Professor Mendell is a member of the Board of the Chantier de l’économie sociale and la Tohu, a social economy circus theatre committed to sustainable development and work integration of marginalized youth. She is also member of the Advisory Committee of the Social Economy Partnership for Community-based Sustainable Development for the City of Montreal. Professor Mendell was awarded the inaugural Prix Pierre-Dansereau in 2012 from the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS). Sponsored by Radio-Canada, the prize is awarded to an individual or organization that best exemplifies a commitment to improving society. In 2013, she received a Prix du Québec, the highest government distinction awarded to researchers in several domains. In 2014, she was named an Officer of the Ordre du Québec.

EDUCATION

Bachelor, Business Administration (BBA), Marketing & Human Resources, 1998 – 2002 (DEUSTO University)
New Technologies course; SPRI (Basque Business Development Agency), 2011
Management Development program; IVAP (Public Administration Basque Institute), 2013

Languages: English, Basque, Spanish, French and German
EXPERIENCE:
Town Councilor in MONDRAGON city since 2011
Member of the Board at OSALAN - Basque Health and Safety at Work Institute; since April 2013
Member of the Board at LANBIDE - Basque Employment Service; since April 2013
President at CSCE - Basque Supreme Council of Cooperatives; since March 2013
Export Area Manager at GOIZPER, S.COOP (2012 - 2013)
Export Department - Spraying Division at GOIZPER, S.COOP. (2004-2012)
Sales Export Department for the OEM market: automotive and residential sectors at Alejandro Altuna, S.A. (JMA) (2003-2004)
Export Manager Assistant at BELLOTA (PATRICIO ECHEVERRIA CORPORATION) (2002)
Product Manager Assistant - Tools at BELLOTA (PATRICIO ECHEVERRIA CORPORATION) (2001)

2007. 6. - present CEO of Fair Trade Korea
2012. 3. - 2014.2 Chair of Seoul Council of Social Enterprise
2004. 7 - 2007. 9 Secretary general of women's environment solidarity
2003. 7 - 2004. 2 Policy advisor to the Minister of Environment

Muhammad Huda Albanna is an International Cooperation Officer at the Cooperation and Investment Board of Yogyakarta Special Region. He holds a master degree in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, majoring in Economic and Territorial Development. Mr. Albanna has years of experience managing international cooperation projects in various topics and serving as primary point of contact between government and cooperation partners.

Muhammad Allah Malik Kazemi, a career central banker since 1976, retired in 2007 from Bangladesh Bank as Deputy Governor, rejoining in 2008 as a senior policy adviser to Governor. His work engagements have covered all areas of central banking including monetary, macroeconomic and external sector management, financial sector supervision and stability, financial markets development, corporate governance and institutional reforms. Alongside work in core areas of monetary and external sector stability issues, his recent work has focused also on ingraining of socially and environmentally responsible financing ethos in the country’s financial sector. He has travelled widely, participating in numerous international conferences, policy consultations and dialogues.

Myeong Sin Kim was the 8th Seoul city councilor (Education Committee, Free School Meal Special Committee). She was co-representative of Citizen Movement for Educational Reformation and Cultural Action, and the member of Private Cchool Disputes Mediation Committee and Planning Advisor Committee, Ministry of Education.

Naina is currently CEO of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network. The AVPN is a non-profit membership association established in December 2011 and comprises organizations interested in or currently practicing venture philanthropy in Asia. The association is a unique funders network that looks at increasing the flow of financial, human and intellectual capital to the social sector. AVPN’s diverse membership currently counts 171+ members from 27 countries, from a wide range of sectors.
Prior to joining AVPN, Naina was a member of the senior leadership team of a purpose driven unit of The Monitor Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm, aimed at catalyzing markets for social change. Her experience prior to Monitor encompassed various human resource roles ranging from working with Citibank in Mumbai, to working in KPMG's consulting practice in Dubai. She has also worked as an HR consultant with Resource Management Technologies, a startup providing HR advice to a wide range of companies.
Naina was also partner and Co-Founder of Group Fifty Private Ltd, curating contemporary Indian art.
Naina has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she graduated at the top of her class. She also holds a bachelors’ degree in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA and a General Course Diploma in economics from The London School of Economics.
Naina lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She has been a longstanding volunteer with Ummeed, an organization focused on children with developmental disabilities..

Chairman of the NPO Forum for Promoting Symbiotic Economy in Japan
Professor Emeritus of Momoyama Gakuin University
Member of the Board of Directors of Coop Kobe
Member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Association for Social Economic System Studies
Degree: Dr. of Economics (Kobe University)

Trained as an architect and planner by profession. After graduated from Norway on Urban Ecological Planning, Nuttaphong has been working as the so-called ‘Social Architect’ since then on various roles both in public and private sector. Before joining the Thai Social Enterprise Office as the director in 2012, he has spent 3 years as a Project Lead of the collaboration project between Thailand and Denmark on urban environment and the remaining 4 years working as a director of the community division and strategic advisor for the Thai Health Promotion Foundation—the government agency to promote health and wellbeing. During the short interval period between the works for government, he also worked as a general manager for the real estate company aiming to be the first social enterprise of Thailand on housing & city development. He was also an initiator of many national initiatives and strategic institutions such as The National Progress Index, The Urban Development and Design Centre [UDDC], The Social Innovation Foundation, The Future Innovative Thailand Institute [FIT] etc.

Ongyo is the director of Han Seoul Support Center for Children’s Grouphome, helping systemization and growth of Children’s Grouphome. Children’s Grouphome is an alternative home which helps children, who cannot live with ordinary families for various reasons, to live healthy. The director has grown children for 12 years as a head of grouphome in the past and is a protestant minister.

Ms. Parveen Mahmud is the founding Managing Director of Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT ), and joined the organization on May 2012, which undertakes various business activities in line w ith social business objectives to overcome poverty and social causes. Ms Mahmud started her career with BRAC, and has worked with national and international development agencies and also worked as a practicing chartered accountant. She had served as the Deputy Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), an apex funding institution for poverty alleviation through employment generation. She was also a partner at ACNABIN, Chartered Accountants. Ms. Mahmud became the first female Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) in 2007 and its first female President in 20. She was the first female Board Member of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA). She serves in Boards of various organizations focusing on social equity, and was the Chairperson of Acid Survivors Foundation

"A pioneer and serial entrepreneur in various fields, from wealth management to social enterprises to global movements. Founder, Social Innovation Park, which is responsible for an 8-part TV program, significant forums and social innovators platforms. Also co-founded the Social Enterprise Association which houses the national platform for social enterprises.
A veteren Singapore Member of Parliament who helped build the first eco-town in the tropics, she sits on many national committees covering the ministries of finance, trade and industry, education, national development, environment & water resources, information, arts and youth. She is a veteran with the Government Parliamentary Committee fro the Ministry of Communications and Information, and previously chaired the GPC for MICA.
Penny covered >80 countries and published various articles and an award-winning book: ‘Practising Sustainability”, which was the silver-award winner of the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards. She has also co-authored many syllabus for the financial service sector and undergraduate program.
She is frequently interviewed and speaks at significant global platforms including Davos WEF, World Knowledge Forum, Global ReDesign Council, ISO, and inter- parliamentary conferences. Sits on global boards of The Dubai Hub, Larta Institute, Operation Hope, and the National Youth Achievement Award Council Advisory Board, etc.
Recipient of global awards, including being founding member of the prestigious World Economic Forum’s New Asian Leaders and the Forum of Young Global Leaders, a Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Community, Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, Yale World Fellow & Scholar. She is an alumnus of NUS, Harvard, Yale and Tsinghua University.
Penny is an avid explorer and hitch-hiker who has covered more than 80 countries and thousands of cities and towns. She makes it a point to conduct between 20-30 field trips per year to social enterprises and NPOs around the world, self-funded. Combined with her background in financial services, economics and sociology, she developed keen insight on current development and emerging trends."

Rona Pryor is the Deputy Director for the Social Venture Partners Network Office, where she’s worked since 2003. Her current work include planning the network’s annual conferences and spring gatherings, facilitating the network’s communities of practice, and generally making sure that the successes in one community can be replicated in others.

The Social Venture Partners Network operates in 38 cities in seven countries around the world, including Seoul. SVP builds powerful relationships among people and organizations that are out to make the world a better place. With a network of more than 3000+ engaged donors in 38 cities, we help individuals amplify their giving, fund and strengthen nonprofits and equip our communities to tackle our greatest social challenges – together.

Degrees in English and theatre from Pacific Lutheran University led to a short stint at a humanitarian organization, during which Rona had the privilege of traveling to Kosovo in the immediate aftermath of the war in the Balkans. A life-altering experience, it was this trip that solidified her commitment to working in the social sector and infected her with the travel bug. Rona has also worked as a concert promoter and a magazine editor.

When she’s not winging off to a new destination, Rona loves to read, to spend time with the children in her life, and to have lively conversations over long, leisurely meals with her beloved friends.

Sayaka ASHIDATE is Director of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS) , a non-profit organization in Kyoto, since 2011. HAPS' main objectives is to create spaces for the residence, production, and exhibition for Kyoto-based artists, with an emphasis on the coordination and negotiation of suitable property for use as: accommodation, studio space, temporary exhibition venues, and storage.
She received a grant by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs to work with Residency Unlimited and to research of the New York art scene in 2010. From 2005-2007 she worked at BankART1929 in Yokohama as a curator and coordinator of the artist studio program. In 2005, she graduated with a degree from the department of Art Policy and Management at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.

http://haps-kyoto.com/en/
http://residencyunlimited.org/
http://www.bankart1929.com

Seongoh Kim He is the Chairman of Organizing Committee in the Federation of Alternative Workers’ Cooperatives and the chairman of Korea Cooperative Startup Management Support Center. He was a reasercher at the iCOOP Reaserch Institute and visiting professor at the Graduate School, Sungkonghoe University. He received BA in Philosophy in Seoul National University.

Planning director of Seoul Association of Self-Sufficiency Promotion Center President of Gwanak Social Economy Council Head of Gwanakgu Social Economy Ecosystem Project Board member of Seoul Social Economy Network CEO of self-sufficiency company, Green Dream Caring Community Former planning director of Korea Federation of Self-Sufficiency Sponsor

Father Shay Cullen, 71, is a native of Ireland and became a member of the Missionary Society of St.Columban in Ireland and was ordained a Catholic priest and missionary in 1969. That same year he was assigned to work in St.Joesph’s parish Olongapo city,Philippines that same year. He founded Preda foundation 1974 to give shelter and protection and help to youth in dire circumstances and founded Profairtrade in 1975. Fr.Shay is a writer,journalist media commentator and conference speaker on FairTrade and social issues. He has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize and received international Human rights awards for his work defending vulnerable women and children especially victims of human trafficking and slavery.

Now　a coordinator of “Japan　association of the Seoul　declaration”．Visiting Fellow　of 　Participatory 　System　Research　Center．This　organization　is
a　think tank for consumers cooperative．Visiting　Fellow　of Japan　Cooperative General　Research　Institute．　This　Organization　is a Think　Tank　for Farmers　Cooperative．
Work　and studied long years at Seikatsu　Club　Consumers　cooperative
about　cooperative movement theory and history．Director of the Society for studies on 　Entropy．　Director　of the Society　studies　 Antonio　Gramisci．
Books　of joint work“Basic　Values　of Cooperative”．　“The　new horizon on　cooperative studies”

So Jung is the co-founder of Spreadi, a start-up team which aims to help spread ideas, innovation and inspiration between social sectors in Asia and Europe.

So Jung is also an Associate at Social Innovation Exchange. She coordinated SIX Summer School Seoul 2013 and SIX Summer School Vancouver 2014. She is an Associate at Social Life, a social enterprise specialising in place-based innovation.

So Jung has previously worked at the Young Foundation on a research project called What Works? Finding new ways to make social change, a global study geared at surfacing and spreading social innovation methods, with deeper regional studies in Southern and East Africa, and East and South East Asia. So Jung has also worked at the Hope Institute, a social innovation centre in South Korea, where she was the project lead for the Social Designer School, an education programme empowering ordinary citizens to turn their learning and ideas into practice.

So Jung has an MSc in Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor's degree in Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Sungsoo Cha has served as the Mayor of Geumcheon-gu since 2010. By relying on the Gasan Digital Complex, he has been expecting the development of local community through IT, fashion, and movies. He has also concentrated on job creation for the youth, senior citizens, women, and the under privileged by producing open educational environment. By focusing on the development of local community based on social economy, Mayor Cha has participated in the Association of Korean Local Governments for Social Economy and Solidarity to cooperate with local governments. He holds his Ph.D from the Graduate School of Sociology from Korea University and is currently a professor at the Department of Sociology from Dong-A University.

Yoshioka Takashi Head of Welfare Committee, Tokyo Consumer CoopIntroduction

Takeshi AKIBA has worked as a professor in an organization theory of NGOs and NPOs at Ritsumeikan University. He also currently serves as a researcher of some co-operative research centers and as a NGO consultant, and as a Chairman of Nara City Volunteer Information Center Review Committee. He is a trustee of the Public Resources Foundation and a director of the Kyoto Green Fund. His research interests center on Management and Marketing of NPO/NGO, Cooperatives and Social Enterprises, and social business/community business. He is an Editor of Journal of the Cooperative Studies.　 He is the co-author of the Consumer Co-operatives Theory in the 21st Century-Type (2006; Japanese and Korean),　Civil Activities in a Crisis: the front line of the Social Enterprise in Japan and Korea (2012), Learning Co-operatives(2013). Co-operatives Looking to the Future(2014). Social Enterprise: the alternative economy(2014). His papers has been published in many academic journals and magazines.

Mr. Chen Tingxian (Henry) is the Research and Development Superior of Non-Profit Incubator (NPI). He hold BA in History in Beijing and MSc in Electronic Business and Knowledge Management from City University of Hong Kong. In past years, he took part in setting up Drucker Youth Community to popularize Dr. Peter Drucker's legacy in China's universities , and designed information systems or training programs for a number of enterprises, social enterprises and NPOs. In 2013, he joined NPI Beijing Office and was in charge of updating business processes, management support and associate development systems.

Tomoomi Mori is currently working as a researcher at Ritsumeikan University. He has a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication. He continues to study Korean society. In particular, he is conducting studies on social economy in collaboration with Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute, participating in the project of Korea Research Center at Ritsumeikan University.

A member of the Centre for Comparative Studies of social enterprises in Japan and Europe, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Kikuchi is a professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism in the Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is also an undergraduate Student The University of Tsukuba. After completing the courses in the department of Earth Science Research, he worked as an associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Gunma University.
Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of science in the Tokyo Metropolitan University.
He is specialized in agriculture and rural geopraphy, geography and tourism and natural tourism. He studies and teaches sustainability of agriculture and rural communities, commercialization of rural areas and food tourism.
His books include <Japan’s diary farming area>, <Regional conditions for sustainable rural system>, <Japanese agriculture maintenance system>, <Food world>, <Learn tourism>, <World Support Series, Japan>, <Regional progress of peasant’s complex management>, etc.
He is also the member of the Tokyo Tourism Council, Council for Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and Japanese Geopark Committee.

Government Occupation:
April 2014 to Present: Policy Aide to the Mayor, City of Kawasaki
Until March 2014: Director of Planning, Kanagawa Prefectural Government
Non-profit Occupation:
April 2013 to Present: Chair of the Public Resources Foundation
January 2000 to Present: Chair of the Center for Public Resources Development
Education:
April 1997 to March 1999: New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Master of Public Administration
Self-Introduction:
As a local government official of Kanagawa Prefectural Government and City of Kawasaki for 34 years I have been responsible for such work as industrial promotion, urban planning, environmental measures, policy research, and policy aide to the governor and the Mayor.
At the same time, I have been long engaged in research and practice of citizens’ activities, assistance to NPOs, and collaboration between the government and NPOs. I established the Japan NPO Center in 1996 and the Center for Public Resources Development in 2000. I completed the Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy Program Course, Master of Public Administration at New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 1999. Presently, I also teach at the Yokohama National University and other universities as a part-time lecturer.
My publications include “Basic Course on NPOs”, “Public Resources Handbook”, “Basics for Practical Management of NPO”, etc.

The main man behind Social Enterprise Malaysia (SEA), Warren Chan is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to bearing the torch for social entrepreneurship in Malaysia. As Managing Director of SEA, Warren carries with himself the expertise and business insights to carry the team and the vision of SEA forward.

Having completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics from University of Melbourne Warren entered the world of social entrepreneurship in 2013 after finishing a two year management programme at Citibank. As a former corporate employee, Warren is able to bring forth ideas on sustainability and development of revenue for social enterprises. With this expertise, Warren is able to be a main figure in the social entrepreneurship field when it comes to consultation and giving solid advice to budding social entrepreneurs in the ecosystem.

Ms. Wang Weina (Vera) is the Vice President of Non-Profit Incubator (NPI). She obtained BS in Mathematics in China and MA in Communication Management from University of Technology, Sydney. Vera possesses over 10 years of experience in the media, marketing and public relations services industries, and she has worked for WWF, CEFA, Shell, CCTV and Westpac Bank as key positions in communication and project management. In 2011, she started career in NPI Beijing Office, and led the team has incubated more than 110 China's social organizations, provided hundreds of professional consulting and training to the government officers, community building sponsors and social entrepreneurs and completed a dozen evaluation projects of social services purchased by government

Wonjae Lee worked as the journalist at the Hankyoreh after studying economics in a university. He left the newspaper and studied MBA at MIT Slon School in USA. His internship in ‘Medley Global Advisors’ led him to write <Report on the Hope of Korea Corporation> which was reported to the then president and became a must- read book for public officials. He set up Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute and has been the president of the think tank for 5 years. He is now the Vice President of the Hope Institute.

Woon-Gi Park is 8th and 9th councilor of Seoul Metropolitan Council and vice- chairman of the Transportation Committee. He proposed in Feb. SIB (Social Impact Bond) legislation for the first time in Asia for the introduction of SIB to Secoul and the legislation was enacted in Mar.

* Present
Business director of Korea Federation of Worker Cooperatives Chairman of Actus Cooperative Board member of Soldae Nori Cooperative

*Past
Former arrangement committeeperson of Korea Federation of Workers’ Cooperatives Former CEO of Kids Pangpang Co., Ltd. Specialty: ICT management, play education, IT consulting, alternative money, coded money

KIM Youngbae has served as the Mayor of Seongbuk-gu since 2010. He has focused on making Seongbuk-gu the center of social economy in Korea. He played a key role in launching the Association of Korean Local Governments for Social Economy and Solidarity as the Secretary General. Mayor KIM is currently the President of the Association and has contributed to the enactment of social economy policy and the development of cooperative network between local governments. He received his Masters degree from the Department of Public Administration from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D from the Department of Political Science from Korea University.

Youngjong Kim, the Mayor of Jongno-gu, has always considered people as the most fundamental factor in carrying out policy. He has focused on the improvement of the welfare system based on the importance of people. Also, he has had a strong interest in Korean culture and has tried to make Jongno-gu the symbol of history and culture for Korea. Mayor Kim serves as the President of the Association of World Heritage City. He received his Ph.D from the Department of Public Administration at Hanyang University. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Hanyang Univeristy.

Mr. NAGATO Yuzo was born in August 1947 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined All Japan Day Workers' Union (Zen Nihon Jiyū Rōdō Kumiai/"Zen Nichi Jirō") in 1977. Nagato thereafter held various posts successively as follows.
1982: Secretary General of the National Council of the Corporations of Employment and Welfare for the Middle-Aged and the Elderly (Chūkōnen Koyō Fukushi Jigyōdan, Zenkoku Kyōgikai)
1995: President of the Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU)
2005: President of the Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union "Central Corporation" ("Center Jigyodan")
Present: President of the Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU)
Nagato also serves concurrently as the deputy president of Citizens' Forum Calling for a Workers' Cooperative Law (Kyōdō Rōdō no Kyōdōkumiai Hōseika wo Mezasu Shiminkaigi) and the board chairperson of Japan Social Solidarity Organization (Nihon Shakai Rentai Kikō).

Dr Zaw Oo is a senior economic advisor the President of Myanmar. In addition he serves on the National Economic and Social Advisory Council. He is a senior research fellow and director of research at the Centre for economic and social development of the Myanmar Development Resource Institute (MDRI). He is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of research He holds a phd in political economy from the American University in Washington DC