Ana María Peredo

Ana María Peredo is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and a Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Previously, she was a professor of Political Ecology at the School of Environmental Studies and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy (CCCBE) at the University of Victoria, Canada. As a leader of the CCCBE, she created a fellowship program not only for graduate students and faculty members from across the campus but also a community fellowship program to bring together academia and the broader community to address complex societal issues.

Ana Maria’s concerns for social justice and poverty alleviation are rooted in her experiences growing up and working with Indigenous communities in her homeland Peru. She is a critical management scholar, and her work builds particularly on her anthropological and international development background and learnings from Indigenous learnings. Her research contributes to understanding how communities in the Global South and the Global North mobilize their own resources to create local and sustainable well-being. Her research argues for a re-conception of entrepreneurship to increase its potential for social benefit by recognizing communities as entrepreneurs and a plurality of goals advancing community well-being.

Professor Peredo has published several seminal pieces on community-based enterprises, Indigenous entrepreneurship, solidarity economy, social enterprises, common property, grassroots movements, commons, social innovation, and social justice. Her work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization, World Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Climate and Development, Organization Studies, Business and Society, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Education and the Community Development among others. She has also edited and published several chapters in foundational anthologies.