Associates and Friends
Yiorgos C. Alexopoulos
- Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development
- Agricultural University of Athens
- A researcher with special interests in co-operative agricultural banks and rural development
- Email: galexop@aua.gr
Heira Hardiyanti
- Institute of Indonesian Co-operative Development Studies (LSP2i)
- A tireless leader, teacher and development worker for co-operatives and credit unions in Indonesia
- Lecturer at the Institute Koperasi Indonesia (IKOPIN)
- Email: Hardiyanti_heira@hotmail.com
Professor Samuel M. Natale
- Professor of Management at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University, New York.
- He is concurrently an Associate fellow of SKOPE, University of Oxford and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Decision Sciences (Oxford)
- Email: natale3@adelphi.edu
Hafiz Rahman
- Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium
- Scale Enterprises/SMEs, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics
- Universitas Andalas, Padang, West Sumatra – Indonesia
- Email: hafiz.rahman@fekon.unand.ac.id
- Email: hafizrahman@eb.unand.ac.id
Cristina Simone
- Co-operative Promoter and Leader
- A former International Co-operative Alliance Latin America Head of Special Projects Office and a tireless leader and promoter of co-operative development
- Email: csimone@wiltel.com.ar
Robby Tulus
- Former Director of the ICA Asia Pacific Region Robby continues in his tireless work developing and promoting Co-operatives and Credit Unions particularly post-retirement from ICA in Indonesia. A Canadian citizen he was born in Indonesia an ethnic Chinese Catholic and to all who know him he is really a citizen of the world.
- Email: Robby.Tulus@gmail.com
Sanjay Verma
- Co-operative Journalist and Researcher
- Attached to Co-operative Union of India and ICA Asia Pacific Regional Office
- Email: svvermas318@gmail.com
Professor Esther Gicheru
- Deputy Vice Chancellor, Finance, Planning and Administration at The Co-operative University of Kenya
- Has served in the ICA in various capacities as a member of the Global Board for four years and as member for the Global Human Resource Committee for Close to ten years
- Currently the Chair of ICA Africa, Research and Gender Committee
- Research interests include Gender and cooperative development; Governance and management of cooperatives
- Email: egicheru@cuk.ac.ke
