Director of the Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre since 2002. She holds a degree in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and has extensive experience in peace research, human rights, memory, and peacebuilding. In 2010, she received the René Cassin Human Rights Award from the Basque Government.

President of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness since 2019. He holds a PhD summa cum laude in Economics and has more than 30 years of international experience in strategic consulting, primarily in energy, sustainability, and competitiveness, advising companies, governments, and regulators.

President of the Gipuzkoa Chamber of Commerce since 2022 and CEO of Grupo Ormak. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), an MBA from Avila University, and has extensive business and institutional experience related to Gipuzkoa’s economic development and competitiveness.

Director of eLankidetza – Basque Agency for Cooperation and Solidarity since 2025. In this role, he leads the body responsible for planning and managing the Basque Government’s policy on international cooperation and solidarity, supporting programmes focused on sustainable human development, humanitarian action, and collaboration with civil society organizations.

Director General for Economic Development of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa since 2025. She holds a degree in Economic Law from the University of Deusto and a Master’s degree in International Law from ISDE. She spent nearly two decades at LKS Next Legal, specializing in corporate and cooperative law, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.

Director of Social Economy of the Basque Government. He holds a degree in Technical Industrial Engineering from Mondragon Unibertsitatea and an MBA from the University of Deusto, and has held positions within the Basque public administration, Tecnalia, and the Kursaal. In his current role, he promotes cooperativism, employee participation, and the development of the social economy in the Basque Country.

Managing Director of ASLE and President of LABORPAR. She holds a degree in Economic Law from the University of Deusto and has extensive experience in the social economy, employee participation, business transformation, and social responsibility.

President of KONFEKOOP – Confederation of Cooperatives of the Basque Country since 2015. She holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and specializes in the social economy. She has more than 25 years of experience at Grupo SSI, where she is Economic and Financial Director, Board Member, and Vice-President. She is one of the leading representatives of the Basque cooperative movement.

Project Director at Coopfond, the mutual fund of Legacoop. An economist specializing in corporate social responsibility and management, she has extensive experience in the Italian cooperative movement. Before joining Coopfond, she spent much of her career at Libera Terra, where she went on to become Director of Consorzio Libera Terra Mediterraneo.

President of the Espriu Foundation, the Autogestió Sanitària cooperative, and Assistència Sanitària. A physician and leading figure in healthcare cooperativism, he promotes a model of care in which professionals and patients actively participate in the organization of healthcare services, with a particular focus on quality of care and solidarity.

Arturo Alvarado Hierro is Rector of Mondragón University Mexico, Managing Director of MONDRAGON International Education, and MONDRAGON’s representative in Mexico. He has been involved with the university since its establishment and promotes cooperative education, dual education, and the social economy. He is also involved in CEFIES, the Centre for Training and Innovation in the Social Economy, which promotes training, entrepreneurship, and innovation programmes aimed at strengthening the social economy in Mexico.

Senior Strategic Projects Consultant at LKS Next, part of MONDRAGON, with extensive experience in strategy consulting, innovation, and business transformation. His work focuses particularly on competitive strategy, industry, talent, and helping companies adapt to new technological and market challenges.

Global Public Affairs Director of MONDRAGON, President of Mundukide, and Director General of ASETT. An Industrial Engineer from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), he has built his career in the cooperative sector, combining business management, internationalization, and innovation. He is also President of CICOPA and serves on international bodies of the cooperative movement.

Director of Mundukide, a development cooperation organization linked to the MONDRAGON cooperative movement. An engineer with industrial and technological experience at Fagor Ederlan and Edertek, she has led international projects and held responsibilities in industrialization and technological services.

President of Bidafarma, one of Spain’s leading pharmaceutical distribution cooperatives, and President of the Andalusian Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists. A pharmacist by training, he has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and cooperative sectors.

Director General of GUREAK since 2018, an organization he has been professionally involved with since 1998, where he previously led its Industrial Division. An Industrial Engineer specializing in Organization from TECNUN-University of Navarra, he leads a leading social economy initiative focused on socio-labour inclusion.

President of LABORAL Kutxa since 2023 and Vice-President of MONDRAGON’s Financial Division. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management and an MBA in Advanced Management from the University of Deusto, and has extensive experience in the financial and cooperative sectors.

Robin Tim Weis is Executive Director of Zero Project International, a global initiative of the Essl Foundation dedicated to identifying and disseminating innovative solutions that remove barriers for people with disabilities. He co-leads Zero Project’s global operations, research, partnerships, and programmes, and leads its engagement with governments, multilateral organizations, and civil society. He is also responsible for the design and delivery of the Zero Project Conference at the United Nations Office in Vienna.

Long-standing leader of Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), known as Marina do MST. Involved in the movement since adolescence, she has spent more than three decades organizing socially and advocating for agrarian reform, family farming, and the rights of rural communities, while also holding responsibilities in spaces for coordination among peasant movements.

Minister of Women of Brazil since 2025. A social worker with a master’s degree in Social Work from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, she served as Minister of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger in 2010, as well as Executive Secretary and National Secretary for Social Assistance. She has extensive academic and public-sector management experience in social policies, equality, and social protection.

National Secretary for Popular and Solidarity Economy at Brazil’s Ministry of Labour and Employment. A philosopher and public administration specialist, he served as Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic from 2003 to 2010 and as Minister of the Secretariat-General of the Presidency from 2011 to 2014. His career is closely linked to social movements and public policies for the solidarity economy.

Researcher specializing in Euro-Latin American relations, EU-LAC cooperation, and strategic foresight. A former Chilean ambassador, he is Vice-President of the Permanent Academic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean–European Union and a professor and coordinator of Strategic Foresight and International Relations at the University of Chile.

Head of the Social Economy and Innovation Unit at the OECD. She has extensive experience in social economy, social entrepreneurship, and territorial development, and has worked on urban and rural development policies, multilevel governance, and social economy ecosystems.

President of Legacoop Nazionale and Coopfond. He has been involved in the cooperative movement since the 1990s and has served as General Director of Legacoop Bologna and Coopfond, promoting projects in innovation, digital transformation, and cooperative development.

President of Legacoop Nazionale and Coopfond. He has been involved in the cooperative movement since the 1990s and has served as General Director of Legacoop Bologna and Coopfond, promoting projects in innovation, digital transformation, and cooperative development.

Secretary General of the Club of Rome since 2024. With a background in system dynamics and complexity theory, he combines more than 30 years of experience in research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and business management. He was a professor and researcher in Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and founded the Innaxis Foundation, dedicated to interdisciplinary research on complex systems.

Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations Local2030 Coalition, based in Bilbao. An economist and local development policy advisor, he has nearly two decades of experience with the United Nations. His work focuses on localizing the Sustainable Development Goals, multilevel cooperation, and promoting place-based solutions for sustainable development.

Minister for Business and Labour of the Government of Catalonia since 2024. He holds degrees in Law and Political Science and Public Administration, and has had an extensive career in legal practice and institutional positions. He was Dean of the Terrassa Bar Association, President of the Catalan Bar Council, and Minister of the Interior of the Government of Catalonia from 2020 to 2021.

President of the General Council of MONDRAGON since August 2024. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the École Nationale d’Arts et Métiers in Paris, and has extensive industrial and international experience within MONDRAGON. He began his career at Danobat, where he became Managing Director, and subsequently served as Vice President of MONDRAGON and Managing Director of its Machine Tools Division.

Slovenian expert in strategic foresight, innovation, and urban development. He is Director of the GoForeSight Institute and President of the Ljubljana Forum on the Future of Cities, and was the founding President of the Foresight Europe Network. He has extensive experience in smart cities, governance, the digital economy, and European affairs.

Director General of Financing and Support and Head of the Social and Solidarity Economy sector at Mexico’s Secretariat of Economy. He promotes public policies and support initiatives for cooperatives and social and solidarity economy enterprises.

President of Cooperatives Europe since June 2025 and Vice-President of the International Cooperative Alliance for the European region. An Italian social cooperative leader with extensive experience in CECOP, CICOPA, and the European Economic and Social Committee, he works on the social economy, cooperative entrepreneurship, and economic democracy.

Coordinator of Partenariat France & Afrique pour le Codéveloppement (PFAC) and one of the leading advocates of the social and solidarity economy in Cameroon and Africa. She has promoted territorial SSE networks and participated in the creation of the African Forum for the Social and Solidarity Economy (FORAESS).

Founder of Freelancers Union and an international leading voice on new forms of organization and protection for self-employed workers. A lawyer and labor organizer, she has promoted models of portable benefits, mutualism, and new safety nets for independent workers.

President of the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities and the International Disability Alliance. A Lebanese academic and activist, he has participated in international processes related to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Secretary General of the Global Forum for Social and Solidarity Economy (GSEF) since 2022. She promotes the international recognition of the social and solidarity economy and coordinates the network’s collaboration with governments, European institutions, international organizations, and United Nations agencies.

United Nations expert in innovation, business, and investment. His work focuses on leveraging innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship to advance the Sustainable Development Goals and promote inclusive development models.

President of Kooperatiben Kontseilua – the Higher Council of Cooperatives of the Basque Country – and Vice-President of KONFEKOOP. With decades of experience in educational cooperatives, he has built his career at Euskal Herriko Ikastolak and represents the Basque cooperative movement in various institutional and social economy forums.

President of MONDRAGON’s Standing Committee and Congress, a position she has held since 2022, and Vice-President of CEPES, representing MONDRAGON. A mechanical engineer by training, she has extensive experience in the cooperative sector and promotes cooperation, cooperative identity, and social impact as drivers of transformation.

President of the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES) since 2008 and President of Social Economy Europe. He holds a degree in Chemical Sciences and is an expert in cooperatives and the social economy, with extensive experience in representing and promoting the social economy and cooperativism in Spain and Europe.

Deputy Minister for Labour and Social Security of the Basque Government. She holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration and in Law from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), as well as a Master’s degree in Gender and Equality Policies. She has extensive experience in the Basque public administration and in employment policies, labour relations, participation, and the social economy.

Turkish-American economist and Head of the Cooperatives and Social and Solidarity Economy Unit (COOP/SSE) at the ILO since 2012. He chairs the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) and has extensive international experience in cooperatives, gender equality, the informal economy, and development.

Economist and Director for Programming and Implementation of Funds at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. She is responsible for coordinating funds such as the ESF+, EGF and the social strand of InvestEU, as well as social economy and better regulation.

Professor of Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). An economist specializing in economic development, public policy, international economics, and local and regional development, he is the author of numerous publications on economic alternatives and social transformation.

Director General of Oxfam Intermón. A civil engineer with extensive experience in international cooperation, humanitarian action, and development, he has led Oxfam programmes in numerous countries and focuses particularly on tackling inequality, poverty, and injustice. Member of the ASETT International Advisory Board.

Vice-President of CICOPA for the Asia-Pacific region and representative of the Japanese cooperative movement in the international organization of industrial and service cooperatives. He participates in CICOPA’s global governance and in developing cooperation networks among worker, social, and service cooperatives across the Asia-Pacific region.