<p>Doctor Anu Puusa works as a Professor in Management and the Deputy Head of Department at the Business School of the University of Eastern Finland. Her current research interest areas are co-operatives, work-community skills, organizational identity and change. Puusa has published 5 textbooks and numerous journal articles and other publications. Her positions of trust and managerial positions include for example membership of the board at Cooperatives Europe, Pellervo Coop Center and Pohjois-Karjalan Osuuskauppa, a regional consumer cooperative that is part of S-Group. She is a co-operative enthusiastic and an awarded teacher.</p>