Anu Puusa works as a Professor in Management at UEF Business School at the university of Eastern Finland. She is a Docent of Management and Co-operatives at LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology. Her current research interest areas are co-operatives (namely their dual nature, co-operative governance and management), expert organizations, organization change, organizational identity and work-community skills/Organization Citizenship behaviour. Puusa has published textbooks and numerous journal articles and other publications. She has several cooperative positions of trust such as membership of the board and presidency at Cooperatives Europe, membership of the board at the Finnish cooperative apex organization Pellervo Coop Center and a vice-presidency at the board of Pohjois-Karjalan Osuuskauppa, a regional consumer cooperative that is part of S-Group. She is an experienced organizational speaker, TED TALK speaker (http://go.ted.com/anupuusa) and an awarded teacher.