Ana Aguirre visits Australia for LEINN International Program

03 December 2024

Ana Aguirre, Global Youth President of the International Cooperative Alliance, visited Australia from 3–9 December 2024 to discuss a partnership opportunity with the LEINN International Program and share her global experiences with co-operative principles and values.

About LEINN International Program 

An innovative European undergraduate program where students learn by creating and managing real companies while traveling the world. This program offers a unique, practical and personalised international learning experience.

About Ana Aguirre

Ana is co-founder and a worker-owner at TAZEBAEZ S.Coop, an innovation group that focuses its activity on the creation of learning and training ecosystems for companies and education institutions (Travelling U.), visual communication (MakeItVisual) and participates in various companies in emerging sectors. Ana heads up the Cooperative Development line and is a member of the innovation consultancy team.

Since 2020, she has been COO of Platform Cooperatives NOW! (Mondragon University and New School) and she was one of 12 participants at the Harvard Research Sprint on Data Cooperatives.

Ana serves as Global Youth President of the International Cooperative Alliance, where she is the Representative of Youth on the Board of Directors. She is also part of the Membership Committee and the Cooperative Identity Advisory Group. Ana recently moderated a session on Building Leaders for the Cooperative Movement at the ICA Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi, India, in November 2024.

Itinerary

• During her trip, Ana met with:
• UTS Institute of Sustainable Futures (3 Dec)
• SBS TV interview (4 Dec)
• RMIT Forward Institute (5 Dec)
• Paul Thambar, Monash University (6 Dec)
• University of Sydney Co-operative Research Group (6 Dec)
• Olivera Marjanovic, Macquarie University (9 Dec)

Listen to Ana’s interview on 2ser radio.

Ana was the closing keynote speaker at the 2022 BCCM Leaders’ Summit. Watch as she talks about relevance and inspiration – connecting with the next generation of co-operators.

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