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Prof. Trebor Scholz is a Professor at The New School in New York City and holds affiliations as a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center and a Visiting Researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Plymouth. His research focuses on cooperative entrepreneurship in the digital economy, particularly through the concept of 'platform cooperatives'—worker-owned, democratically controlled digital platforms advancing social, labor, and environmental justice. His influential books include Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet (winner of the Joyce Rothschild Book Award) and Uberworked and Underpaid.
Key initiatives include founding the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) in 2017 and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) in 2019. These institutions host global conferences, policy engagements, and a fellowship program supporting 44 scholars in the digital solidarity economy. Scholz has influenced policy in over 60 countries and received grants from major organizations like the European Commission, Rockefeller Foundation, and Ford Foundation.
His work bridges academia and activism, fostering democratic alternatives to corporate tech through platform cooperatives. The ICDE and PCC continue to drive innovation in the cooperative digital economy, impacting millions of workers globally.
