PROGRAMME

Raquel works as a team at amfori. Her work at amfori is focused on two pillars: one is providing expertise for the strategic priority of Food & Agriculture, whereas the second is on providing expertise for the strategic priority on Transparency. She is involved in three of amfori’s Project Groups: Transparency, Sustainability of the Food Industry and Sustainable Wine Programme 2.0. Raquel’s previous experience was on multistakeholder projects on smart-agriculture for the livestock and commodities sectors. Her latest education endeavour is as an executive MBA candidate on Food & Agribusiness from Wageningen University.

Mitsuru works as a Social and Environmental Policy Advisor in the Government & Public Affairs Team of amfori. After obtaining a degree in Law in Italy and pursuing a Master in European and International Law in the Netherlands, he has worked for the European Parliament, DG European Parliamentary Research Service, Comparative Law Unit, and for a branch of Moody’s Investor Service, where his responsibilities included analysing businesses’ sustainability reports and researching on sustainability trends.

Jean-Marie works as an Environmental Sustainability Senior Expert at amfori, within the Strategy & Innovation department. He studied initially chemical and environmental engineering, and completed this academic background in 2010 by a specialized masters on eco-design and environmental management. Before joining amfori, we has worked for 19 years for 3M, mostly in Research & Development and Sustainability positions.

Dr Leon Mol was educated as an agronomist at Wageningen University. He started his career establishing a large potato farm in Egypt, followed by international, technical and commercial jobs in the potato sector. Later, Leon was employed as Agronomist at Albert Heijn (The Netherlands) working on long term availability and sustainability of fresh fruit & vegetables, flowers and plants, with an emphasis on food safety, social compliance. Now, Leon is Director Product Safety & Social Compliance at Ahold Delhaize. The (global) scope of the activities includes product safety, social compliance, animal welfare and sustainability of animal and plant related products.

Rogier studied international law at the Utrecht University. Before joining the European Commission, he worked several years at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Within the Commission he dealt ia with issues relating to the accession of Central and Eastern European countries, copyright, clearing & settlement and insurance.  Rogier currently works in the Unit “Corporate Reporting, Audit and Credit Rating Agencies” at DG FISMA. He is involved in the ongoing revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive.

Jean Johnson is the Director, Apparel and Accessories. She has more than 15 years of experience in the socially responsible apparel, home goods and giftware sector, including eight years as Director of Product Development and Merchandising for the fair-trade nonprofit SERRV. She also served as Country Director for Aid to Artisans in Macedonia, and has consulted with organizations around the world on issues related to export development, including marketing, product development, and ethical business practices. Jean has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is a graduate of Yale University.

Trade Union Organiser, Trainer and leader has more than twelve years of experience in National Trade Union and 4 years of experience in Global Labour Movement, with specific three years in Advocacy, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Projects in Multi Industries such as Steel, Ship Breaking, Ready Made Garments, Leather and Tanneries, Textiles and also ILO project of Child Labour in Rajasthan Mines.

Presently as National Coordinator, All India Unorganised Workers Congress, working exclusively with informal workers-specifically Home Based Workers and Agricultural workers, deals in all aspects of poor income, illiteracy, ill health, gender inequality, and environmental issues.

Basically, she has been interested to work for women and children education, health welfare and sustainable development. She has been in teaching profession for the past 17 years. She resigned from Jusco School, Tata Steel for her greed to enhance her skills and to focus more independently in social sector activities and societies.

With educationist background and in depth knowledge of Organising, Rights advocacy of Gender issues she has experience in planning, designing projects, developing strategies for collective actions of multiple unions at Local, National and also Regional levels including Evaluation of all the projects. During four years’ extensive work in Global Union, she has been an integral part in planning, designing, implementation of project activities, advocacy and evaluation and future planning for sustainability were the core strength. Had also been an Evaluator in an ILO project on Child Labour in Mining sector. Has critical understanding and evaluation of RMG in EPZ’s in India and SriLanka, Textiles in Tamilnadu, Tanneries in Kolkata and Community work involving women in the downstream industry in India and Bangladesh.

• Joined the UK based international labour rights NGO Homeworkers Worldwide in 2017, initially leading a study of working conditions in UK apparel manufacturing, and completing Gender reviews for a major supermarket and a food distribution company for the UK’s Ethical Trading Initiative.
• Currently leads HWW’s advocacy work with companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives through the Hidden Homeworkers programme – Improving Transparency and Traceability to Improve Working Conditions of Homeworkers in Apparel and Footwear Chains in India, Pakistan and Nepal, co-funded by the EC.
• Between 2017-18, Lucy worked alongside Jane Tate, our longstanding International Co-ordinator, co-ordinating work to improve working conditions for homeworkers stitching leather shoe uppers in footwear manufacturing supply chains in Tamil Nadu.
• Lucy’s doctoral thesis explored the situation of homeworkers within a globalising world, focusing specifically on homeworkers – and the NGOs working with them – in the UK and Chile.
• Prior to re-joining HWW as a staff member in 2017 Lucy worked for Oxfam managing their livelihoods programme in England between 2008-14, and as a researcher at universities in Bradford and Manchester.

As amfori’s country Representative, Natasha has a rich background in the area of sustainability. Natasha worked with Bloomberg LP for 7 years, she was their South Asia Manager. In 2011-2012 she worked to build Bloomberg’s sustainability database across Environmental, Social and Governance parameters. In 2013, she co-funded her own social compliance consultancy. Here she gained insights into on-the-ground working conditions. She is experienced in assessing compliance across health & safety, compensation & benefits, occupational hazards, fire safety, child labour and bonded labour, among many other key supply chain issues such as gender equality and women empowerment. Since early 2015, Natasha has assisted in rolling out amfori trainings and capacity building efforts (pan-India). She assumed the role of amfori Network Representative India in 2016. She speaks fluent English, Hindi, Marathi and some French.

Eric Gravier is the Environmental & Chemical Programme Lead of amfori, the Trade for Purpose association, since March 2019. His current mission is to improve the environmental footprint of various industrial supply chains. To achieve this goal, this French native safety & environment engineer tries to benefit from its 20 years of experience in industry, firstly as head of HSE consultant in the French plastics converting industry, offering technical and regulatory support to SMEs and PMES, then as Environmental Head in an International Belgian company, leader in the Plastics fluids handlings systems. This journey allowed him to achieve environmental improvements both at manufacturing unit and at product levels. Key milestones were for him: ISO certifications, regulatory affairs management, energy savings, VOC reduction, hazards prevention then eco-conception and development of LCAs. He was active as expert or convenor in various European or national standardisation bodies, industrial trade associations and EU initiatives as the Product Environmental Footprint.

Florence is the Environmental Policy Advisor at amfori. She has studied European and international law in France and in Finland. Before working in advocacy, she has developed the BEPI platform and participated in pilot of amfori’s Timber Due Diligence tool.

Kathy Roussel is amfori Manager of the Policy and Government Affairs Team. As such she designs and implement strategies to push amfori policy agenda towards open and sustainable trade.Graduated in both Political Sciences and European Law, Kathy has more than 15 years of experience in Public affairs. In her past role, she was running the Brussels representation office of AHDB and also acted as the Secretary General for a European Platform of national agri-food promotion organizations.

Oscar has been working with El Corte Inglés, one of the largest retailing groups from Spain, for over 15 years, holding different positions in its sourcing offices around Asia (China, Korea, South East Asia and Bangladesh). Due to his years of experience in sourcing and managerial positions in the company, he was appointed in 2018 as the CSR Manager for Asia Pacific Region focused on ensuring the match between the CSR strategies and requirements of the company and the business needs. Prior to his present company he also worked in South East Asia promoting infrastructure projects developed by a Spanish engineering company with Official Development Aid from the Spanish Government.

Sarah has over 10 years’ experience in responsible sourcing of forest impact commodities, particularly within the timber sector and due diligence systems. Drawing on experience working with diverse companies, Sarah provides bespoke business solutions for responsible sourcing and supply chain management.Sarah joined NEPCon in 2017.

Annelise works with BSR members across sectors to promote women’s empowerment through consulting, collaboration, and research. She supports the work of the Business Action for Women collaborative initiative.
Prior to joining BSR, Annelise worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she led the OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment, a global multi-stakeholder community committed to promoting women’s economic empowerment. Her research focused on identifying barriers to women’s economic empowerment, women’s unpaid care work, and time use. During her time at the OECD, she worked on the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), conducted research, and led trainings on social norms and gender equality. She also worked closely with bilateral donors to ensure that their development programming supported gender equality and women’s empowerment and worked on issues such as combatting sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
Annelise holds a M.A. in International Relations from the American University of Paris and a B.A. in International Affairs and French from the University of Georgia.

Franzis Wimmer is the Senior Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator at amfori, where he coordinates amfori’s work to advance women’s empowerment in global supply chains as well as living wages. Franzis is also responsible for coordinating the strategic engagement of amfori’s key stakeholders including international organisations, civil society and trade unions. In his role, he is responsible for identifying and forging strategic partnerships to advance amfori’s mission to create a global trade framework that uses natural resources responsibly and benefits everyone. Before working for amfori, Franzis worked for different international non-profit associations, such as CSR Europe and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, to advance sustainability in both the private and public sector. Franzis holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies and a Master of Science in Sustainability Science and Policy from the University of Maastricht.

Guggi Laryea is amfori’s Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships Senior Manager and as such is in charge of managing amfori’s relationships and co-operation with stakeholders, as well as overseeing amfori’s gender equality program. Prior to joining amfori last year Guggi spent over 10 years with the World Bank Brussels Office where he was responsible for amongst others relations with civil society actors in Western Europe and partnerships with the private sector to support job creation for youth.  Guggi a Ghanaian national has a BA International Affairs and an MA in Development Policy and Public Administration.

Katja leads ‘WeEmpowerAsia’, a joint programme of the European Union and UN Women, that aims to increase the number of women who lead and participate in private-sector businesses in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam, thereby advancing inclusive and sustainable growth along with stronger links between European and Asian markets through gender-sensitive trade and supply chains.
She has more than 15 years of experience in the private sector. Prior to joining UN Women in 2019, she was Director of Global Partnerships and Advocacy for Women’s Economic Empowerment, Inclusive Business and Enhancing Livelihoods at Unilever, a company she had served since 2003.
Katja is a member of the Advisory Board of Dharma Life, a social enterprise working to improve the quality of life in rural India through female entrepreneurship.

Dr Leon Mol was educated as an agronomist at Wageningen University. He started his career establishing a large potato farm in Egypt, followed by international, technical and commercial jobs in the potato sector. Later, Leon was employed as Agronomist at Albert Heijn (The Netherlands) working on long term availability and sustainability of fresh fruit & vegetables, flowers and plants, with an emphasis on food safety, social compliance. Now, Leon is Director Product Safety & Social Compliance at Ahold Delhaize. The (global) scope of the activities includes product safety, social compliance, animal welfare and sustainability of animal and plant related products.