Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Associate Professor of Global Development at the University of Toronto and cross-appointed to the graduate programme of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is Founder of Diverse Solidarity Economies (DiSE) Collective pushing for equitable economies. She holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2023) and her project “African origins in the Social Economy” was previously funded by SSHRC (2017-2020). Dr. Hossein is a board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’. Dr. Hossein is the author of ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), and co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022). Her forthcoming books are ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ by Oxford University Press and ‘The Banker Ladies’ by the University of Toronto Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for 9 years in a number of global non-profits and as a self-employed consultant to the World Bank Group, UNDP, USAID, IRC, CIDA, IADB, and the Aga Khan Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter @carolinehossein