Ariel Guarco

[citation needed] A man trained into the public services cooperative movement, and specially the electric cooperative movement, during the course of his life he has moved along all institutional positions until today, when he runs the Presidency of COOPERAR, apex organization in the Argentine cooperative movement, and he's member of the International Co-operative Alliance's Global Board.

In 2008 he was elected President of the Cooperative Federation of Electricity and Public Services of Buenos Aires – FEDECOBA –, a position he still runs nowadays.

He is Member of the International Co-operative Alliance's Global Board since 2013 and Deputy Vice-president of Cooperatives of the Americas since 2014.

Also in 2013 he met Pope Francis during an audience he held with leaders of ICA at the Vatican.

Guarco is the author of the book, The Argentine Cooperative Movement – A hopeful Look into the Future.