Peter McAllister

Position

Former Executive Director

Organisation

ETI

Peter has spent more than 30 years engaged in international development and rights-based initiatives around the world.

He was Exective Director at ETI between October 2010 and June 2024 after spending seven years at the Geneva-based International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).

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.

Blog posts from this author

Who captures the gains of global trade?

14 December 2012

ETI Director Peter McAllister recently attended a summit on global trade in South Africa. He shares his insights in part one of a two-part blog series.

Workers are key to improving China's factories

3 February 2012

"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

12 December 2011

Listen to ETI Director Peter McAllister discussing ETI's new approach to ethical trade.

The toy industry must move beyond auditing

8 December 2011

"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

1 December 2011

"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

14 July 2011

"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."