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Neil Kearney
General Secretary
International Textiles, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF)
ETI Board Member

Biography:
Neil is the General Secretary International of the ITGLWF, first elected in 1988. In this position he has visited more than 140 different countries worldwide. At the same time, ITGLWF membership has more than doubled. Recently he participated in the Report Review Committee for this year’s Nike CSR report.Neil’s awards include in 1998, “Il Natale, La Notta della Vita”, an international award for his work on the elimination of child labour worldwide. In 1999 he received the “1999 Work and Environment Award” of the Associazione Ambiente e Lavoro for his efforts to improve working conditions, especially in developing countries.

(See also: Plenary 3: Marrying the commercial with the ethical.)

Ineke Zeldenrust
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)

Biography:
Ineke is one of the founders of the Clean Clothes Campaign and has worked for the CCC in different capacities since it began in the Netherlands in 1989. She is currently responsible for the CCC's codes, monitoring, and verification program as well as for company-related strategy and lobbying work. Her other duties include extensive travel to consult with the campaign’s international partner network in Asia, working on CCC's urgent appeal cases, organising seminars, and project management.

(See also: ETI Workshop 8: Towards common approaches to code implementation.)

Ingrid Schullstrom
CSR Manager
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)

Biography:
Has been CSR manager for Hennes & Mauritz since 2001. She was previously quality manager with responsibility for CSR between 1997 and 2001. She has a BBA from the University of Linköping 1979.

Vinita Singh
Development Consultant and Ex Director International Resources for Fairer Trade (IRFT)
Co-ordinator, ETI Homeworker Project

Biography:
Vinita is the co-ordinator of ETI’s Homeworker Project, which is examining how the ETI Base Code can be applied to homeworkers. She is an expert in globalisation, development and ethical trade in the Indian context. Before working with ETI she set up and directed an organisation in India called International Resources for Fairer Trade, which focused on promoting fair and ethical trade as an instrument for social development. She has designed and coordinated several social and ethical programmes for international companies. This involved tracing the supply chains of several European retailers, conducting industry-wide studies, carrying out audits of factories and home-based working conditions, and training workers and factory owners in ethical issues.

(See also: ETI Workshop 3: Homeworkers)

David Croft
Head of Co-op Brand and Technical
Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd
ETI Board member

Biography:
As Head of Co-op Brand & Technical for the Co-operative Group, David has responsibility for marketing, quality and safety policies for a wide range of own-brand products, both food and non-food, from numerous suppliers worldwide. This links closely to the positioning of the Co-operative Group, and implements environmental and ethical requirements relating not only to the products, but also to the production sites and processes involved, delivering the Co-op’s policy of Responsible Retailing. Success has been achieved through developing strong partnerships with suppliers, and providing support to enable the Co-op’s policy requirements to be achieved. As a director of the Ethical Trade Initiative in the UK, David is closely involved in developing approaches to ethical trade, working alongside other businesses, development organisations and the trade union movement.

(See also: ETI Workshop 6: Assessing risk among suppliers – a toolkit.)