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Who is Rachel Botsman?
Rachel Botsman is a writer and university lecturer. Rachel Botsman is currently teaching trust in the digital age at Oxford University’s Sad Business School. Previously, Rachel designed and taught the first-ever Oxford MBA course on the ‘Collaborative Economy’. She has lived on four continents, delivered three TED talks, and authored two critically acclaimed books.
Early Life and Childhood
Rachel Botsman was born in London, United Kingdom, on February 16, 1978. Her age is 44 years.
Rachel claims the scar that splits her left brow was caused by her brother hitting her on the head with a tennis racket when she was five years old.
After graduating from Harvard, she relocated to New York, then to Sydney. She is of mixed ethnicity and has British nationality.
Education Details
Rachel Botsman later attended Harvard University for postgraduate studies, graduating in 2002.
She worked in brand consulting before joining the William J. Clinton Foundation as a Director. She currently serves on the National Roads and Motorists’ Association’s board of directors (NRMA).
Professional Career
Botsman is a world-renowned speaker known for her insightful remarks and warm storytelling.
Salesforce, the World Business Forum, Goldman Sachs, the Aspen Ideas Festival, Adobe, and Snapchat are among her previous clients.
Her TED talks have been viewed over five million times, and she has frequently been voted the audience’s favorite speaker at events. Rachel received three prestigious TED talks.
Rachel’s upcoming book, “Who Can You Trust?” will be released in 2017.
The book explains why trust is shifting in all kinds of institutions while new technologies enable “distributed trust” across networks of people, organizations, and intelligent machines.
Adam Grant, Marc Benioff, and Sherry Turkle praised it, and Wired named it one of the best books of the year.
In 2010, her book “What’s Mine is Yours” was released. The book predicted the rise of the “sharing economy,” and TIME magazine named it one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change the World.”
In 2010, it was also a finalist for the 800-CEO-Read Business Book Awards. Rachel’s novels have been translated into 14 different languages.
Her first podcast series, Trust Issues, was named one of the year’s most thought-provoking by the British Podcast Awards.
Rachel’s most recent podcast, Rethink Moments, is a featured show on the LinkedIn Podcast Network.
It investigates culturally significant ideas and events that influenced how we think and reconsiders how these events influenced us. Every Monday, a new episode is released.
Rachel’s collaborative consumption theory, as defined in her 2010 book What’s Mine is Yours, was named one of the “Ten Ideas That Will Change the World” by TIME.
She defined the Collaborative Economy as systems that extract value from underutilized assets by matching ‘needs’ and ‘haves’ in ways that avoid traditional intermediaries and distribution channels.
Net Worth and Salary
Rachel Botsman’s net worth is estimated to be $875,984.
Relationship Status
Rachel Botsman married her Australian barrister husband.
After their wedding, she relocated to Sydney. The couple lives in Oxford with their two kids and their beloved dog Mack.
Body Measurements
She is a woman of average height. Rachel is 5 feet 4 inches tall (Approx. 1.62 m).
Social Media
Her Twitter handle is @rachelbotsman.
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Trivia
- Rachel is a writer and university lecturer from the United Kingdom.
- She is a lecturer at Oxford University’s Sad Business School, where she specializes in trust in the digital age.
- Botsman’s net worth is estimated to be $875,984.
- She is 5 feet 4 inches tall (Approx. 1.62 m).
- She married her Australian barrister husband.
