9th MEETING OF THE ICA-AP COMMITTEE ON COOPERATIVE RESEARCH
5TH NOVEMBER 2023
Facilitator: Mr. Mohit Dave, Secretary
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| Time and Venue | 14:00 – 17:00, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Sta. Mesa, Manila |
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Chairperson: Dr. Yashavantha Dongre Nominated by Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society, India. Dr. Yashavantha Dongre serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Chanakya University, India. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor in the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. He has authored and edited several books and papers on cooperatives in the Asia-Pacific region, more recently “Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential” published by Elsevier, and “Cooperatives and Social Innovation in Asia and the Pacific” published by Springer. He also serves as Honorary Chair of Social Business Academic Network (India chapter) which was initiated by Nobel laureate Prof. Muhammed Yunus. |
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Vice-Chairperson: Dr. Sidsel Grimstad nominated by Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals, Australia. Dr. Sidsel Grimstad is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation (formerly The Yunus Centre) at the Griffith Business School in Griffith University, Australia. She has a B.Sc. in Agriculture from University of Agriculture (NMBU), Norway. Her working experience is with the Norwegian environmental public sector, United Nations Fund for Agricultural Development and the NMBU Centre for Environment and Development studies. She completed an MBA and PhD (2013) on Collaborative Business Models for Sustainability. She convened Australia’s only online degree on Co-operative Management and Organisation (2016-20). In 2019 she co-chaired the 14th ICA-AP CCR conference organized at University of Newcastle |
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Vice-Chairperson (To be ratified): Dr. Ahyoung Kim nominated by iCOOP, Republic of Korea. She is the Director of iCOOP Cooperative Institute with a Ph.D. in Business Administration at Sungkonghoe University of Rep. of Korea. The title of her doctoral thesis was “Human-Centered HRD and Communities of Practice of Co-operatives: The Case Study of iCOOP Korea." She also serves as a director of the Korean Society for Cooperative Studies. She is involved in the Korean Association of Human Resource Development. Her recent research mainly concerns innovative cooperative development and the human resource development of social economy and cooperative. |