DECENT
LABOUR
ADDRESSING LABOUR ISSUES
IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SEAFOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
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WHO ARE THE EXPERTS?
Emmanuelle Bourgois, Director FairAgora Asia
Ema is the founder and Director of FairAgora Asia. She launched Verifik8, an agTech solution to provide affordable yet credible data analytics to monitor social and environmental performance in the seafood supply chain.
emabourgois@fairagora.com
Lea Esterhuisen, Director &Wider
Lea is founding director of &Wider, a company focused on driving continuous improvement in working conditions through insights generated by workers directly. &Wider and Ulula work together across multiple sectors and geographies to help buyers and ethical trade collectives better manage risk along global supply chains using carefully crafted methodologies and scalable technology.
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Matthew Friedman, Chief Executive Officer, The Mekong Club
Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 27 years of experience as an activist, program designer, evaluator, and manager. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer for The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong-based private sector business people who have joined forces to fight human trafficking in Asia, which he also co-founded.
matt.friedman@themekongclub.org
Aarti Kapoor, Director Embode
Aarti Kapoor is the Founder and Managing Director of Embode. She is a qualified lawyer in both the UK (England and Wales) and the US (New York state) and has a Masters in Law and Economics.
Aarti has over 20 years of professional experience, including 15 years working on human rights issues, with a focus on human trafficking and child exploitation. She has worked in leadership positions in the UK and South East Asia with government, NGO and corporate agencies as well as undertaken assignments in Eastern Europe and Africa.
aarti@embode.co
Marika McAdam, Independent Legal Consultant
Marika is an independent consultant and adviser on legal issues relating to criminal justice and human rights-based responses to human trafficking and migrant smuggling. She has worked with the UN and other actors in Asia and elsewhere to strengthen legislative and criminal justice responses to human exploitation.
marika_mcadam@yahoo.com.au / Twitter @Marika_McAdam
Pierig Vezin, Director, WethicA
Pierig is the owner of WethicA, an auditing company specialized in social topics. He ran WethicA with a very pragmatic approach coming from 20 years living in different developing countries working on quality and productivity that finally led to workers situation.
pierig.vezin@wethica.com
Nicole Naurath, Regional Director Gallup Asia
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Alma Roman, Independent Consultant
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Mel Asuncion, Research & Stakeholders Engagement Manager Vérité Southeast Asia
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Krishna Salin, Director Aquaculture & Aquatic Department Asian Institute of Technology
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Suzanne Drillet, Research Fellow Center for Sustainable Asian Cities, National University of Singapore
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Katarina Nakamura, Director Sustainability Incubator
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Antoine Heuty, Director Ulula
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Mathieu Cognac & Jason Judd, ILO
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Mathew Johnson, Coordinator LPN
Matthew has a background in research and was previously with the Labour Rights Promotion Network in Thailand. He has on the ground experience with a wide range of labour abuse cases, with the provision of workers rights training and grievance mechanisms, and with community outreach.
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Krzsyztof Dembek University of Melbourne
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