Ana Maria Peredo is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and a Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management in the University of Ottawa. Previously, she was a professor of Political Ecology at the School of Environmental Studies and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy (CCCBE) at the University of Victoria, Canada. As a leader of the CCCBE, she created a fellowship program not only for graduate students and faculty members from across the campus but also a community fellowship program to bring together academia and the broader community to address complex societal issues.

Ana Maria’s concerns for social justice and poverty alleviation are rooted in her experiences growing up and working with Indigenous communities in her homeland Peru. She is a critical management scholar, building on her background in anthropological and international development and learnings from Indigenous teachings. Her research contributes to understanding how communities in the Global South and the Global North mobilize their own resources to create local and sustainable well-being. She argues for a re-conception of entrepreneurship to increase its potential for social benefit by recognizing communities as entrepreneurs and a plurality of goals advancing community well-being.

Professor Peredo has published several seminal articles on community-based enterprises, Indigenous entrepreneurship, solidarity economy, social enterprises, common property, grassroots movements, commons, social innovation, and social justice. Ana María has received several local, national and international awards for research, knowledge mobilization and teaching.

She serves on numerous academic and professional boards. She is Associate Editor of
Organization and Co-Coordinator of a standing group on system change, in the European Group of Organizational Studies. Ana Maria recently founded the International Academy of Indigenous Research in Management and Organization to encourage emergent scholars to bring Indigenous knowledges into Management Studies.

Ana María currently focuses on three interconnected areas: (1) Alternative Organizations and Solidarity Economies, such as community-based entrepreneurship, co-operatives and commons; (2) Indigenous Economies and Decolonization; (3) Alternative Futures such as social movements including post-growth.

2023 Speaker List