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John Restakis is formerly Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held since 1998. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development.

Most recently, Restakis was Research Co-ordinator for the FLOK Project in Ecuador on Social Knowledge and the Social Economy and focusing on Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation. He does consulting work on international co-op development projects, researches and teaches on co-operative economies and the social economy, and lectures widely on the subject of globalization, regional development, and alternative economics. John is a founding member of the Advisory Committee for the MA Program in Community Development at the University of Victoria and was co -founder and Co-ordinator of the Bologna Summer Program for Co-operative Studies at the University of Bologna. He is currently Research Associate for Co-operatives UK. Restakis earned his BA at the University of Toronto with a Major degree in East Asian Studies and specialist studies in Sanskrit and Classical Greek. He holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Religion.

Books by John Restakis: Seeds of Transition: Human Services and the Carting Society, Athabasca University 2014 The Great Revenue Robbery: How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada, Tax Justice and the Civil Economy, Between the Lines, 2012 Humanizing the Economy - Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, New Society Publishers, 2010 The Co-op Alternative: Civil Society and the Future of Public Services Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2001 Storylines: Oral Histories for Literacy Ontario Ministry of Education, 1987 restakis@gmail.com