Lilian Ricaud

Tarbes Area, France France

Open Cooperation Specialist

Open collaboration expert, digital nomad and music lover, I worked and taught in France, the UK, India and Senegal and currently live in France. Originally trained as a plant biologist, I worked in top research labs in France and the UK (INRA, CEA, University of Cambridge) and my work has been published in several scientific journals. In 2005, I left academia to study new open collaboration practices emerging online and in 2008 I started freelancing, teaching and advising organisations on the use of open collaboration practices, social media tools and user-centered design. Systems thinker and nature lover, I've been studying and practicing permaculture since 2008, and completed a per...