Rachel Botsman

Biography

Rachel Botsman is an author, lecturer and the global authority on the power of collaboration and trust enabled by digital technologies to change the way we live, work, bank and consume.

She is known for originating the theory of ‘collaborative consumption’ with her acclaimed book, What’s Mine is Yours (Harper Collins, 2010). The concept was subsequently named by TIME as one of the ‘10 Ideas that Will Change the World’ in 2011 and the book was shortlisted for the 800-CEO-Read Business Books Awards in 2010. Her TED talks on the topic have been viewed more than two million times. In 2015, she designed the world’s first M.B.A. course on the collaborative economy, which she teaches at Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business.

Rachel is a regular writer and commentator in leading international publications including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Rachel is a contributing editor for Wired and writes a monthly column for the Australian Financial Review, which explores the mindset of entrepreneurs who see the world differently.

In 2013, World Economic Forum named her a ‘Young Global Leader’ and Fast Company named her as one of the ‘Most Creative People in Business.’ She is a much acclaimed speaker and was named by Monocle as one of the world’s top 20 speakers to keynote your conference. Recently she won the Thinkers 50 2015 Breakthrough Idea Award for ‘recognizing an idea which has the potential to change the way we think about business forever.’

She received her B.F.A (Hons) from the University of Oxford and attended Harvard University for her post-graduate studies. Rachel s currently working on a new book on trust in the digital age.