Dr. Tej Gonza is Co-Founder and Director of the IED, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, and Advisory Council member at Cankarjev dom. For the past decade, his academic and practical work has focused on participatory forms of business ownership. This includes practical work with businesses, legislative support to the Government, research and teaching, as well as collaboration with European stakeholders and EU institutions on policies supporting employee ownership. He is a two-time recipient of the Rutgers Fellowship awarded by Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations, and has received the Changemakers Fellowship for Democracy.