I am the coordinator of the Voice Network, a coalition of European NGOs and trade unions that focus on sustainable cocoa. Before that I was working for one of the members of the Voice Network: Stop The Traffik...
I spent most of my career in the humanitarian aid sector, working for the British Government, the European Commission and several NGOs. Specializing in food security and public health I lived and worked in Africa for 11 years, including in countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire...
Environmental and social concerns have led palm oil to become a controversial ingredient and to intense scrutiny from environmentally and socially-focused NGOs. What that means for Mondelez is that we need to find ways to buy palm oil that’s produced in a sustainable way...
Over the years, at Oxfam I’ve been involved in private sector engagement roles. That builds on Oxfam’s view that: to achieve the big ambitions we have in terms of poverty alleviation, we need to work with powerful actors in governments and the private sector...
The Indonesian government takes the debate on palm oil seriously and we will continue to demonstrate that we are not running away from our responsibilities but contribute to a supply of sustainable palm oil...
I’m trained as a nutritionist with a medical background. I have a long history with palm oil and with oils and fats in general. My whole scientific career has been focused on the effects of fats and oils on nutrition and health, including the nutritional properties of palm oil and its relationship to cardiovascular disease...