Reading Time: 4 minutesIñigo Albizuri Landazabal trata de la internacionalización de las cooperativas y de cómo la economía social puede tener un impacto tanto a nivel local como internacional.
Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal - (CICOPA)
Iñigo Albizuri is a 6 years degree industrial engineer of business management. He has spent his all working life in different cooperatives of MONDRAGON Corporation around the world (Spain, Italy, México, United States and China).
He owns multiple patents as the result of his work.
He is also the president of MUNDUKIDE, the NGO of MONDRAGON cooperatives, that works setting up new cooperatives in developing countries like Mozambique, Colombia, Ethiopia or Brazil.
He is the president of CICOPA the worldwide organization of Industrial and Service Cooperatives. CICOPA gathers 51 members from 35 countries, who affiliate 65,000 enterprises employing 4 million people across the world. CICOPA is a sector organization of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) since 1947 and has three regional organizations: CECOP (CICOPA Europe), CICOPA Américas, and CICOPA Asia-Pacific.
Mr. Albizuri has also been honored with the prize “Fair Saturday” for his work in the cultural field.
Beyond borders: how the social economy goes international
Reading Time: 4 minutesIñigo Albizuri Landazabal discusses the internationalisation of co-operatives and how the social economy can have an impact both locally and internationally.