Speaker: Emile George (E.G.) Nadeau
Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall
Speaker’s Bio
E.G. Nadeau has an undergraduate degree in sociology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been researching, developing, teaching, and writing about cooperation and cooperatives for over 50 years, beginning with his work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal in 1970.
He was the founding director of Cooperative Development Services in 1985, a pioneering co-op business planning organization in the United States. Over a period of over 30 years, from 1985 to the present, Nadeau has been doing domestic and international co-op consulting work for Cooperative Development Services, the National Cooperative Business Association/CLUSA, Land O’ Lakes International Development Division, the Overseas Cooperative Development Council, and other organizations. He has carried out over 25 international cooperative development projects since 2000.
Books published:
- The Emerging Cooperative Economy, June 2024
- Strengthening the Cooperative Community, March 2021
- The Cooperative Society: The Next Stage in Human History, with Luc Nadeau, September 2018
- The Cooperative Solution: How the United States can tame recessions, reduce inequality, and protect the environment, 2012
- Cooperation Works! with David Thompson, 1996.
In 2015, he organized The Cooperative Society Project and continues to serve as its co-director.
From February 2014 to September 2015, Nadeau served as the research director for the US Overseas Cooperative Development Council, where he organized the International Cooperative Research Group, a division of OCDC.
He served on the faculty of the Master in Management – Cooperatives and Credit Unions Program at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, N.S. from 2004 to 2013.
He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.