Tej Gonza is a Co-Founder and a Director of IED, where he works on policy proposals, legislation, and practical implementation of employee ownership models. He graduated from Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and continued his studies at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at Rotterdam University, where he developed his interest in economic democracy. Currently, he is a PhD candidate working on employee ownership. Gonza co-designed the European ESOP, Platform ESOP, and European Marcora as three different generic models for spreading worker ownership.