Aude Saldana

Aude Saldana has been Secretary General of the Global Forum for Social and Solidarity Economy (GSEF) since April 2022, where she champions international recognition of the SSE as essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. She supports the GSEF’s 95 members and community in advocacy, collaboration and project development with local and national governments, international organizations, civil society actors…, while coordinating the network’s strategic plan to turn members’ priorities into concrete responses to socio economic and environmental challenges.

Her work creates a cooperative space where stakeholders can exchange best policies and practices, identify common challenges and opportunities, and strengthen public–private SSE networks, while the GSEF partners with local governments to jointly co construct SSE policies and ecosystems in order to drive significant scaling of the SSE worldwide.

Before the GSEF, she held senior roles with international NGOs in conflict affected countries as Director of Programs. Across rural and urban contexts, she has focused on supporting self help groups, associations, cooperatives, and local collective development initiatives, building civil society capacity through a democratic governance model that links local development goals with community driven projects.