Event information
21 November 2019
17:30
Quad and C114
A panel of experts will try to answer this question: "Fairtrade, what's the point"?
5th West London Borough Fairtrade debate hosted and supported by Middlesex University. A panel of experts will try to answer this question: "Fairtrade, what's the point"?
Panel members include:
- Councillor Ayfer Orhan Mike Gidney, CEO of Fairtrade Foundation
- Dr Doirean Wilson, MDX Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and diversity lead. She is the creator and Chair of the University’s high profile EDUBATE panel discussion series. Doirean is also a Visiting Professor of Religion & Multiculturalism at the Joint Council of Churches for All Nation's School of Theology, Leadership and Management. Additionally, she is a member of the University’s Gender and Diversity Research Cluster.
- Ian Bretman was head of commercial relations at the Fairtrade Foundation from 1997 to 2001, Deputy Director until 2008 and Executive Vice-Chair of Fairtrade International until 2012. He currently works as an independent advisor to the three Fairtrade Producer Networks in Africa/Middle East, Asia/Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean.
- Dr Adotey Bing-Pappoe is a Ghanaian political economist and Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Greenwich. His research interest are workers' cooperatives, development and industrial policy, regional integration, and income and wealth inequality.
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For more information, contact Jo Williamson
