ETI Secretariat
The ETI Secretariat is responsible
for the day-to-day management and implementation of all ETI activities.
Currently, it comprises twelve full-time and four part-time staff members,
with support from several consultants.
(The following org chart is also available as a PDF (link below),
and in list form with biographies of key personnel.)
(click
to download this organigramme as a PDF [17kb])
Also working at the Secretariat on a part-time basis are:
Note:
For general enquiries, please send your email to eti@eti.org.uk
and your message will be forwarded to the most appropriate person. To contact
a specific member of the Secretariat, individual contact details are available
on the Contact Us page.
Staff Biographies:
Dan Rees, Director
Dan Rees is the Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative
and has been with ETI since July 1999.
Prior to joining the ETI, Dan spent 10 years working with non-governmental
organisations in the field of international development. Most recently
Dan led VSO's Global Education and Advocacy Department for four years
during which time VSO brokered innovative engagement between poorer
communities in the developing world and the international tourism industry.
Martin
Cooke, Deputy
Director (Interim)
Martin was formerly Ethical Trading Manager for Tesco plc for whom he worked
in this and other capacities for just over five years. At Tesco Martin took
the lead on a number of ETI projects; for example, he was involved in the
homeworkers and smallholders projects and in driving improvements in conditions
for workers on flower farms in Kenya. Martin is the Managing Director of
Ocatra Ltd, a consultancy specialising in international trade and development
issues. He has worked extensively in South America and most recently has
been involved in market access work in Africa for DFID and the African Union.
He is also a trustee of the Zoological Society of London and has recently
been appointed Chair of the Chatham House Procurement for Development Forum.
Liz Kirk, Head of Projects
Liz joined ETI as a Project Manager in
February 2005 from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
where she worked as both a consultant and post-graduate student. Before
this she spent two years in Bangladesh working with a network of over
200 NGOs which focussed on gender, labour rights and governance
and which was successful in brokering national-level multi-stakeholder
dialogue on integrating a gendered analysis of labour conditions into
the national Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.
Head of Communications and Research
[to be appointed]
Angela Byer, Office Manager
Administration and Finance
Kaiesha Gibson, Administrator
Dean Jones, Administrative Assistant
Olivia Robinson, Project Manager
China, ETI Training (from September)
Candida Barbato, Project Manager
Miriam Neale, Project Manager
Training; Purchasing Practices
Helen Shamdasani, Project Manager
Purchasing Practices (from September)
Dimitri Kessler, ETI China Representative
Julia Hawkins, Media Relations & Communications Manager
Writing publications, Managing media relations
Alan Sadler, Communications Co-ordinator
Seminars, Website development, Publications
Penny Street, Publications Manager
Writing and producing publications
Peter Williams, ETI NGO Co-ordinator
Annie Watson, ETI TU Co-ordinator
See Also:
Contact ETI.
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