Pierre Girard is an international consultant in collective entrepreneurship with specific interest in the socio-sanitary field. He has 40 years of experience, including in university teaching. He has notably collaborated with the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and recently authored the health chapter of the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Social Economy, a project of the UN Working Group on the social solidarity economy.