Douglas Wegner holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011). He was a visiting student at the University of Cologne, Germany (2009) and visiting scholar for post-doctoral studies at TU Dortmund, Germany (2019). He also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Sevilla (2016) in Spain. Douglas is currently a professor of the Professional Master in Administration at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), Brazil. He works as associate editor of Revista Base (Qualis A2 - ISSN 1984-8196) for the topics of Collaboration and Interorganizational Relations. Douglas was a member of the Scientific Committee of Organizational Strategies (2019-2020) at Anpad, the National Association of Graduate Programs and Research in Administration. He is currently co-leader of the track on «Interorganizational and Interpersonal Relations» at Anpad (2022-2023). Douglas published more than 90 scientific articles in national and international journals in Business and Administration. In 2019 he published the book «Redes, Alianças e Parcerias: Ferramentas e Práticas para a gestão da cooperação empresarial» (Networks, Alliances, and Partnerships: Tools and Practices for the management of business cooperation). Besides the academic activities, Douglas worked as a business consultant, forming and developing strategic networks in Brazil. He has also been working as a volunteer in the project «Vamos! Brazil-Germany», a collaboration between the German organization Der Mittelstandsverbund - which brings together 310 business groups and 230,000 small and medium-sized companies in Germany -, and the Brazilian Federation of Associative Networks of Building Materials (Febramat) - which brings together 30 business networks in the sector of building materials in Brazil. The project aims to promote know-how transfer from the German business networks to the Brazilian ones, strengthening the business cooperation ecosystem. His main research and professional interests are focused on collaborative strategies: business networks, alliances, partnerships, corporate-startup collaboration, digital platforms, business ecosystems, innovation networks, multistakeholder networks, and collaborative governance.