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Deborah Doane is the head of Corporate Accountability at the New Economics Foundation, a leading not-for-profit think-tank which aims to build a just and sustainable economy. Ms Doane is currently engaging in research and and advocacy in the areas of social and environmental sustainability; public policy and regulatory issues; ethical trading; and corporate governance systembs to build more effective frameworks to ensure corporate social responsibility. Her most recent publication, 'Corporate Spin: the Troubled Teenage Years of Social Reporting' has established a new agenda for research and policy action calling for mandatory social and environmental reporting for all companies. Ms Doane was formerly head of the Humanitarian Accountability Project, where she lead an international consortium of NGOs and Human Rights groups based at the British Red Cross. Kathy Evans is Advisor to RUGMARK UK. She began her career as a journalist specialising in Middle Eastern affairs. She worked as an analyst and writer at the BBC World Service's Eastern Section and from 1989-92 was Regional Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper and Time magazine in Islamabad, Pakistan. In 1997 Ms Evans established Rug Connections, a London based company offering a personalized service to help rug purchasers find the carpets and rugs they like. Terry Hudghton is the Corporate Marketing Manager for Co-operative Retail, where he develops the strategy for the Co-Op brand range of products, and the policies which are in line with co-operative values and principles and manifest themeself in the Co-Op. Much of Mr Hudghton's recent work has revolved around initiating and developing Fair Trade within the grocery sector. This has enjoyed rapid expansion as a result of a series of initiatives encompassing the introduction through the Co-op of Fairtrade bananas to the UK and the launch of the first supermarket own brand fair trade products. Michael Kay is the Buying Director for Clarendon Rug Innovations (part of B. Shenkin & Co. Ltd) one of the UK's largest importers of 'oriental' rugs. Malini Mehra is Founder-Director of the Centre for Social Markets (CSM), an independent non-profit NGO with offices in the UK and India. CSM promotes corporate social and environmental responsibility from a human rights and sustainable development perspective with a particular focus on the private sector in developing countries. CSM provides a variety of educational and information services, conducts research and engages in advocacy on corporate accountability issues at key international and other fora. Ms Mehra was formerly Director of the People's Decade for Human Rights Education and Trade and Investment Policy Advisor for Oxfam. She is editor of 'Human Rights and Economic Globalisation: Directions for the WTO'. David Ould is the Deputy Director of Anti-Slavery International. He has been involved with Anti-Slavery's campaign on bonded and other illegal labour in the south Asian carpet industry since 1992 and was involved in much of the early support work for RUGMARK. He is the Anti-Slavery representative for the Ethical Trading Initiative, a UK based group that brigns together companies, trade unions and NGOs to set common standards for companies trading in the South and to work together to trial different approaches to the monitoring and verification of these standards. He has written widely on RUGMARK and alos on how companies can recognise the problems of forced and illegal child labour. Prior to joining Anti-Slavery International he worked for BP in various management and policy roles. |
