Fiona Duguid, project co-lead of the SSHRC-funded Co-opConvert project, has a PhD from University of Toronto in Adult Education and Community Development. Fiona is currently Assistant Professor (term) in the Shannon School of Business, MBA program (CED) at Cape Breton University, an Adjunct Professor in the Saint Mary’s University (SMU) Co-operative Business Management program, as well as a Research Fellow with the Centre of Excellence on Accounting and Reporting of Co-operatives (CEARC, SMU). She conducts research focusing on co-operatives, social economy, sustainability, and community economic development, while teaching about co-operatives, community economic development and research methodologies. She is the past-president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Co-operation (CASC).