HANS CEDIEL

Res Intercontinental de Economía Social y Solidaria Ripess Lac

Economista Social

Coordinator of the Network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean (RIPESS LAC). Coordinator of the Network – Social Forum of Transformative and Alternative Economies Colombia – Latin America. PhD candidate in Economics at the National University of General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Holds a Master’s degree in Social Economy. Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Directorate of Strategies, Development, and Entrepreneurship, focusing on popular and community economy. Advisor to the General Directorate of the Victims Unit in Colombia on reparation issues. Former executive at iNNpulsa, an autonomous fund under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism, specializing in popular economy matters. Professor of Social Participation, Territory, Environment, and Development in the Master's Program in Human Development at Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca. Researcher at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia on socio-economic projects with a territorial approach. Advisor to Codema (teachers’ union) on associativity. Member of the cooperative La Territorios en Desarrollo in Argentina and of the mutual organization Corfeinco in Colombia. Guest lecturer at various universities across the continent. Experienced in advocacy work with human rights organizations, social protection, and care systems. Advisor on education projects and the creation of social, solidarity-based, and grassroots organizations. Has experience in territorial planning for socio-economic development through social economy, including work with Argentina’s Ministry of Education. Project coordinator at Justicia y Vida organization (2004–2011), and coordinator in various participatory spaces, including public hearings for the defense of human rights, among others. Author of several books and articles on the systematization of experiences, curriculum proposals, and socially-driven knowledge appropriation and research products.