Ethical Trading Initiative
Peter has spent more than 20 years engaged in international development and rights-based initiatives around the world.
He joined ETI in October 2010 after spending seven years at the Geneva-based International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), which brings together global companies involved in cocoa and chocolate, trade unions and NGOs to eliminate the worst forms of child labour and forced labour from the international cocoa industry.
At ICI, Peter earned an impressive reputation among all stakeholders in the sector for his clarity of leadership and the impact that ICI has had on the lives of many cocoa-producing families, producer policy and sourcing practices of major global brands.
Previously, he spent 13 years working in leadership roles for the international development NGO CARE, including spending prolonged spells in strategic roles India and West and Southern Africa.
Articles by Peter
Workers are key to improving China's factories
"All companies sourcing from China must work far harder to meet their responsibilities towards the workers making their products, whatever the product."
ETI's new approach
Listen to ETI Director Peter McAllister discussing ETI's new approach to ethical trade.
The toy industry must move beyond auditing
"The key question is not whether these issues exist, but what we are all doing about them."
It's time to tackle the root causes of poor working conditions
"Creating widespread, sustainable change for workers - particularly in the current global economic climate - is a tough challenge, but it must always be our focus. I am convinced that our new approach will help us realise this."
DFID's call for pro-poor investment in Africa is timely
"Effective and credible ethical trade strategies can help generate not just more jobs at any cost, but better jobs, more stable jobs, with better wages, that will enable millions of poor and vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty."
Panorama's surgical probe missed a trick
"For the NHS, ethical sourcing should be just as much about protecting the people who make its equipment as it is about the patients who are treated with it."
2010: A year of change
"My first few months at ETI have provided a fantastic opportunity to learn about ETI's many strengths - not least the commitment and engagement of our membership - and to start to introduce some fresh perspectives into our thinking."
