Karmele ACEDO heads Grupo Servicios Sociales Integrados (Grupo SSI), a Spanish cooperative structure of social initiative companies with a public vocation located in Bilbao, in the Basque Country. She has been Secretary General of EFFE since 2012. Karmele Acedo is particularly committed to collective causes such as the social integration of the most vulnerable, but also cooperativism, female leadership, the development of corporate culture and social and technological innovation.