Chairperson: Kian Peng Seah, Chairman, Singapore National Co-operative Federation
Secretary: Shil Kwan Lee, Regional Director, Asia/Pacific
Coordinator: Garry Cronan, ICA Communications Manager



Trent Bartlett, Kian Peng Seah, Carlos Palacino, Kari Neilimo


• Home Advantage: How a National Retailer Makes Life Challenging for Multinational Competitors, Kian Peng Seah, Chairman, Singapore National Co-operative Federation (pdf)
  
• Carlos Palacino, Executive President, Saludcoop, Colombia


• A Short History of S Group, Kari Neilimo, President & CEO, S Group, Finland (pdf)


• Success Through Co-operation, Trent Bartlett, CEO, Capricorn Society Ltd., Australia (pdf)

A Level Playing Field for Co-operatives in Competition

Chairperson: Elba Echevarria, ICA Board Member, Puerto Rico
Secretary: Manuel Mariño, Regional Director, ICA Americas
Coordinator: Maria Elena Chavez-Hertig, ICA Deputy Director-General

• Lobbying activities in the field of IFRS the views of the EACB, Hervé Guider, General Secretary, European Association of Co-operative Banks (pdf)


• Hagen Henry, Convener, ICA Legislative Advisory Group


• Denominadores comunes de las coop argentinas, paraguayas y uruguayas en su evaluación de la estrategia de las coop ante las TLC, Ricardo Rodríguez Silvero, Consultant, Professor of Economics, Former Legal and Executive Advisor to the Government of Paraguay (pdf, Sp)
  
• Coopératives : donner la parole aux agriculteurs pour influencer les politiques, Fabienne Derrien, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (pdf, Fr)

Global Solidarity: Co-operating out of Poverty

Chairperson: Esther Gicheru, ICA Board Member, Kenya
Secretary: Ada Kibora, Regional Director, ICA Africa
Coordinator: Jan-Eirik Imbsen, ICA Director of Development


H.M. Hanafia, Robby Tulus, P.A Kiriwandeniya

• Post Tsunami Co-op Reconstruction in Sri Lanka - The SANASA case study, P.A. Kiriwandeniya, Chair, SANASA Development Bank, Sri Lanka (pdf)


• H.M.Hanafia, Chair, DEKOPINWIL, Indonesia (pdf)


• Post Tsunami Co-operative Reconstruction, Robby Tulus, ICA Field Coordinator on Tsunami (pdf)


• Global Solidarity: Co-operating out of poverty, Dave Sitaram, President, Canadian Co-operative Association (pdf)


• Solidaridad Global - Cooperar para eliminar la pobreza, Ramon Imperial, President, Caja Popular Mexicana, Mexico (pdf, Sp)

Co-operative Innovation: A Sectoral Perspective

Chairperson: Jean-Claude Detilleux, ICA Board Member, France
Secretary: Rainer Schlüter, Regional Director, ICA Europe
Coordinator: Jin-Kook Kim, ICA Sectoral Information Manager



• Innovación Cooperativa, Luis Fernando Añaez Pereyra, General Manager, CRE Cooperativa Electrica, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (pdf, Sp)


• Making Your Voice Count, Vivian Woodell, CEO, Phone Co-op, UK (pdf)


• Cooperative Innovation, an Electric Cooperative Perspective, Martin Lowery, Executive Vice President, National Rural Electric Co-operative Association, USA (pdf)


• Cooperative innovation among worker, social and artisan
  cooperatives, Bruno Roelants, General Secretary, CICOPA, Belgium (pdf)