Ms. Ana Aguirre won the Youth Presidency elections for the ICA Youth Committee that took place from April 11 to 16. She will represent the committee and global youth network for the next 4 years.
Coming from the Basque Country in Northern Spain, Ms. Aguirre is co-founder and worker-owner at TAZEBAEZ S.Coop, an innovation group that focuses 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. In TAZEBAEZ , she leads the Cooperative Development line and is a member of the innovation consultancy team. Since 2020 she is the COO of Platform Cooperatives NOW! (Mondragon University and New School) and was one of 12 participants at the Harvard Research Sprint on Data Cooperatives.
She currently serves as Vice-President for Europe in the ICA Youth Committee and has been involved in the ICA Youth Network throughout its development into the ICA Youth Committee.
She says, “I will work hard with my fellow Youth Representatives to create an action plan for the years to come that is co-created, shared, inclusive, and aligned within the youth network but also with other committees, the regions, and the global cooperative movement. And as I shared at World Cooperative Congress in Seoul, I strongly believe that the best years of the cooperative movement are yet to come, and ours to make, together. This is just the beginning.”
Her position will be ratified by the board of the ICA during the ICA General Assembly in Seville on 20 June.
