Bio

Professor Olivera Marjanovic (Ph.D.) is a currently a Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the former Deputy Director (2010 – 2015) and the Director (2015-2017) of the Cooperatives Research Group at the University of Sydney – the leading multidisciplinary research group in the area of CMEs in Australia. Through her applied research and innovative teaching, Olivera seeks to link data and analytics, processes, human-centric services, knowledge and technology in innovative organizations, including cooperatives & mutuals (CMEs) and more recently digital platform cooperatives. Her current large research grants include an innovative industry-wide Visual Atlas of the Australian Cooperatives (an online platform for mapping and visual data exploration of the history of Cooperatives in Australia from the early 1900s to today) and a world-wide study of Digital Nomadism and new forms of digital working.