Rachel Botsman Biography

Rachel Botsman is a social innovator, advisor and speaker on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging network technologies including how it will transform business consumerism and the way we live. Rachel is the author of the influential book What's Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live. TIME Magazine recently named Collaborative Consumption as one of the 10 Ideas That Will Change The World and that it “will transform the way companies think about their value propositions and the way people fulfill their needs." Her talk at Microsoft Research both provoked and inspired setting off an active conversation that continues to this day and world-wide within the company.Consultant to Fortune 500 companies and former director at the William J. Clinton Foundation, Rachel has presented at high profile events including The Clinton Global Initiative TEDx Google and No.10 Downing Street. She was recently named by Monocle as one of the top 20 speakers in the world and was featured as socioeconomic 'Game Changer' in Project the first dedicated iPad magazine. Rachel is the founder of innovation consultancy Collaborative Lab and a partner in the Venture Fund Collaborative Fund. Rachel has BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University.

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