FTAANZ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2005/06

(As elected at the AGM in August 2005)

Natasha Lewis (Chairperson) - Natasha Lewis is one of the founding members of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand, and currently sits on the committee as secretary of the Association. Her passion for fair trade has helped to drive the Association as it takes the lead in pushing the fair trade agenda in Australia and New Zealand. As a regular speaker she is determinedly pushing education and understanding regarding the principles and benefits of Fair Trade. Originally educated as a Naturopath, Natasha quickly developed her interest in advancing sustainability both though industry and trade. This is being realized through both her organic food and products wholesale business, Organic Trader which recently launched the premium organic Fairtrade chocolate brand Cocolo, as well as her association with fair trade. Natasha is available for public speaking on fair trade at conferences, schools, universities, etc.

Barry Coates (Vice Chairperson) - is Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand, an affiliate of Oxfam International. Oxfam NZ links practical grassroots projects, mainly focused on the Pacific, with international campaigns, such as Make Trade Fair, to address the causes of poverty and injustice. Barry was formerly Director of the World Development Movement (WDM), an international advocacy network based in the UK. He played a leading role in campaigning on issues of global justice: debt, international trade and investment and arms trade, and was a Board member of the Fairtrade Foundation, the Ethical Trading Initiative, and active in ethical investment and Corporate Social Responsibility. At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the early 1990s, Barry developed a programme on sustainable development, and participated in the Earth Summit in Rio as a member of the British government delegation. Barry has an undergraduate degree in economics and a Masters from Yale University.

Brett Inder (Treasurer) - Brett Inder is an Associate Professor in Business and Economics at Monash University.  His research interests include various areas of Development Economics.  He is also involved with People For Fair Trade, a group of volunteers committed to spereading the message of Fair Trade and to selling Fair Trade tea and coffee.

Nicole Philp (Secretary) -  Nicole has been a passionate advocate of Fairtrade since 1999 and was a member of the founding FTAANZ Executive Committee.  Nicole owns and manages Universal Village, a fair trading business involved in importing, distribution and marketing Fair Trade products.
 
Nicole has 15 years experience in business management and marketing and is very enthusiastic about helping FTAANZ get the Fairtrade message out there and into the hearts and minds of the general public.  Nicole is the Secretary of FTAANZ and Co-ordinator of the Marketing Group. She also has experience working with development projects as an Administrator and Board Member of an aid & development NGO with project partners in India.

Jacqueline Grace - is a recent Graduate of Melbourne Unversity where she co-founded a student Fair Trade movement named Hooked. Since then Jacqui and her husband Tim have been assisting other campuses across Australia to establish Fair Trade campaigns. She is also involved in Fairtrade advocacy in various Faith based communities in the Victorian region. They also currently working on establishing interships with Fairtrade cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region and one day hopes to assist with the establishment of Fairtrade cocoa farms in Indonesia.

Nigel Walsh - Nigel has worked in the advertising, design and marketing industry  in Australia for over 28 years.  The last 7 years have been as Marketing Manager of Oxfam Australia Trading Pty Ltd (Oxfam Shops, Oxfam Shop Mail Order). Nigel and Oxfam Australia Trading (a fair trade organisation) are passionate supporters of fair trade.  OAT trades with over 35 countries worldwide contributing to a sustainable income for marginalised artisans and their communities.  The Oxfam shops and Oxfam mail order shop sells wide range of  fair trade handcrafts and fairtrade commodities.

Nigel will use every opportunity to promote the concept, and benefits, of fair trade to the Australian public.

Caroline Thomas - Caroline is committed to promoting Fair Trade in Australia & New Zealand, having seen the success of the business sector in Europe.  She is an independent marketing consultant bringing over 15 years of experience in Australia and overseas.

Caroline has been an active & long-term supporter of the Fair Trade campaign, providing pro-bono marketing to Oxfam Australia, the Make Poverty History campaign and other charities. She is committed to marketing the Fair Trade benefits across all the different stakeholders in our region.

Eileen Davenport - Eileen is currently working as a freelance social researcher on fair trade and development issues and has published articles on fair and ethical trade. She is a member of the Registration Committee of IFAT, the sister international fair trade organisation to FLO and has been involved in fair trade and ethical trade issues for a number of years. She has an academic background in social sciences and has worked in the academic, NGO and government sectors. For the last nine years she has been living in New Zealand and during that time has been the Research Director for Council for International Development in New Zealand and more recently has been working freelance on NGO capacity building in the Pacific and social impact assessment.