Dr. Najeeb serves as a social scientist and research coordinator at the UL Research Centre (Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society Research Centre) located in Kozhikode, Kerala. He holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Najeeb’s research focuses on the integration of global cooperative models into Kerala’s cooperative sector, the digital transformation of cooperative societies, digital humanities, collective intelligence, and labor studies. He has published articles in international journals and presented papers at prestigious conferences, including those held at St. John’s College and the University of Oxford.