@rachelbotsman Rachel Botsman is the co-author of the influential book What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (HarperCollins 2010). She is a social innovator who writes, consults, and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live.

Her work has appeared, and she has been quoted as a thought leader, in The Economist, CNN, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Bloomberg News and The New York Times. Rachel is a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review on topics related to technology and innovation. She is an inspiring speaker and has presented high profile events including NESTA, The Clinton Global Initiative, TEDx, GOOGLE, No.10 Downing Street, and Microsoft.

She received her BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford, and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University. She has consulted to Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofit organizations around the world on the intersection between brand, innovation, and sustainability, both as an independent expert adviser and with top-tier agencies including Prophet Brand Strategy and What If Innovation.