Accreditation Advisory Committee
Dorianne Beyer, National Child Labor
Committee
Ms. Dorianne Beyer, Esq. (L.L.M., J.D., B.A.) is the General
Counsel of the National Child Labor Committee, which has been
in the leadership of establishing, implementing and promoting
safe, healthy and developmentally sound U.S. child labor laws
and policies since 1904. In that role she has codified all
age-sensitive US laws, drafted model legislation and testified
in front of Congress. Ms. Beyer has been a national and international
labor standards lawyer, author, trainer and speaker for the
past 25 years. Most recently, Ms. Beyer was appointed to a
three-year term on the United States Department of Agriculture's
(USDA) newly convened Consultative Group to Eliminate the
Use of Child Labor and Forced Labor in Imported Agricultural
Products. Additionally, she has applied her labor policy experience
as a public consultant to such governmental agencies as the
U.S. Departments of Labor, State and Agriculture, the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the U.S.
Army, as well as to the United Nations, the Child Labor Coalition,
Burger King Intl., universities, corporations, blue ribbon
panels, policy makers, the NGO community and the media. Ms.
Beyer is also a founding principal of Labor & Monitoring
Consultants, LLC, which provides a wide range of labor standards
and practices assistance to companies, governments, trade
associations, unions and NGOs worldwide. Ms. Beyer serves
as a founding member of the Advisory Board of Social Accountability
International and is a member of Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable
Agricultural Network International Standards Committee.
John Brookes, Global Loss Prevention,
Inc.
Mr. Brookes is presently the Assistant Vice President - Quality
Management at Global Loss Prevention, Inc. a wholly owned
subsidiary of Chartis (a leading global insurance company).
In this role he develops and maintains quality management
processes for the company's global insurance engineering services,
(encompassing all aspects of ISO 9001 compliance and ongoing
business improvement initiatives). From 2002 to 2005, prior
to joining the Chartis organization, Mr. Brookes was owner
of Management Accountability Systems; an independent company
providing quality, environmental, and social accountability
consulting, auditing and training services. During this period,
he led SA8000 Accreditation audits on behalf of SAAS. Between
1991 and 2001, Mr. Brookes held the position of Senior Vice
President - Business Development for SGS International Certification
Services (Now SGS Systems & Services Certification). While
at SGS, he was Global Program Manager for social accountability
and an SA8000 Lead Auditor and trainer. He was also a founding
member of the SAI Advisory Board and assisted SAI in the development
social accountability auditing evaluation and reporting protocols.
During the 1980's Mr. Brookes was a quality consultant and
IRCA certified ISO 9001 Lead Auditor. Mr. Brookes has served
as a member of the SAAS Accreditation Committee since 2006
and currently also serves as a member of the Accreditation
Review Panel for SAAS.
Ivano Corraini, Confederate CGIL
Mr. Corraini is the former Secretary General of FILCAMS-CGIL and
currently leads the National Legal Office of CGIL. CGIL
is the main Italian union with over 5.7 million members. He
is also the president of the FILCAMS-CGIL Study Centre. FILCAMS-CGIL
is the fourth largest union with approximately 357,000 members.
Mr. Corraini was formerly in charge of organizing workers and collective
bargaining through national labor contracts with national
level companies belonging to the same sectors. He represented
FILCAMS-CGIL to employer associations, national institutions,
and the Italian government. Mr. Corraini has negotiated fifteen
national labor contracts, including the Commercial Tertiary
contract, the consumer cooperatives contract, the tourism
contract, the private security contract, cleaning services
contract and house working contract.
George Jaksch, Chiquita Brands International
Mr. Jaksch was born in London and following studies of economics
(Cambridge, UK) and agriculture (Seale-Hayne, UK), he for
several years developed his own farming business in Colombia.
He first joined Chiquita Brands in Colombia in 1979 as financial
adviser to banana producers. After several years working for
Geest in Colombia and Spain, he rejoined Chiquita in 1987and
became operations manager of the Armuelles division on the
Pacific coast of Panama. In 1989 Mr. Jaksch became director
of quality control (Europe), based in the Netherlands, and
soon afterwards was promoted to become responsible for quality
assurance systems in Chiquita’s worldwide banana business,
with residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1999, Mr. Jaksch
has returned to Europe, initially as director of the marketing
and sales operation in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and
more recently with increasing involvement in Chiquita’s
corporate responsibility work and public affairs. A member
of Chiquita’s corporate responsibility steering committee,
he has actively and with conviction supported the evolution
of the concept. As a lead auditor, he has conducted the SA8000
audits in Chiquita’s Honduran, Guatemalan and Costa
Rican divisions, together with independent observers from
human rights NGO’s and trade unions. Mr. Jaksch is a
member of the SA8000 Advisory Board.
Eileen Kaufman, Social Accountability
International
Ms. Kaufman serves as Executive Director of Social Accountability
International. She has held this position since SAI was incorporated
in 1997. Prior to joining SAI, she was Director of Strategic
Planning at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection,
a strategic planner at the NYC Department of Design and Construction,
and a financial planner at the NYC Water Board. At SAI’s
inception, she worked at the Council on Economic Priorities,
co-authoring Paper Profits, an analysis of paper mill pollution
and its control. In addition, she is the author of over a
dozen publications on corporate social responsibility, most
recently two case studies, “From
Principles to Practice: The Role of SA8000 in Implementing
the UN Global Compact,” (UN, 2010) and “From
Words to Action: A Business Case for Implementing Workplace
Standards. Experiences from Key Emerging Markets,”
(CIPE, 2009). Ms. Kaufman is a member of the UN Global Compact
Human Rights Working Group, the UN Global Compact Supply Chain
Sustainability Advisory Group, the Steering Committee for
Transparency International’s Business Principles for
Countering Bribery, and the CERES Stakeholder Council. Ms.
Kaufman is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she earned
a B.A. in Economics. Ms. Kaufman also holds an M.A. in Economics
and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University.
Andrew Kirkby, Bureau Veritas Certification
Mr. Andrew Kirkby is the Vice President of the Certification
Business Line for Bureau Veritas Certification. He is a registered
Incorporated Engineer (1992) and holds a Master of Science
Degree in Engineering Management from Loughborough University
(1999). He started his career in 1980 as an apprentice electromechanical
engineer. During the 1980s, Mr. Kirkby worked in the UK Defence
and Nuclear industries and, in 1992, joined the British Standards
Institution (BSI). In 2001, he joined Bureau Veritas in the
UK, first as Technical Director for the Certification Business
Line, progressing then to Process Optimization Manager. In
2005, Mr. Kirkby became Certification Manager for the Netherlands
and in 2007, he became Business Development Manager in the
UK. In 2008, he was appointed Business Line Manager Certification
for the Northern & Eastern Europe Zone and in 2010, he
was seconded to the Certification business line for specific
assignments and, in September, took full responsibility for
its operations. Bureau Veritas Certification is the global
leader in certification, helping clients address complex requirements
through three types of certification adapted to the different
dynamics of mature and emerging countries. With 80,000 clients
in more than 100 countries, delivering over 100,000 certificates,
Bureau Veritas Certification provides a comprehensive range
of certification and auditing services from public standards
to more customized schemes, in the fields of Quality, Health,
Safety, Environment, and Social Responsibility. Accredited
by SAAS since 1999, BV currently is the leader in SA8000 auditing
and certification.
Prasun Kundu, Det Norske Veritas
Mr. Prasun Kundu is a Lead Auditor and Manager for the SA8000
program for Det Norske Veritas. He has 15 years of management
experience in DNV with a good understanding of DNV's corporate
culture, code of ethics and anti-corruption policy. His present
DNV assignment covers managing of SAAS global accreditation
for SA 8000 services and BSCI services ,technical review and
certificate / report authorisation of SA 8000 and BSCI projects
globally. Mr. Kundu is a lead verifier of GRI-based Corporate
Sustainability Reports and contributed significantly in promoting
SA 8000 certification in manual-intensive Indian Metal and
Mining Sector including major integrated Steel Plants. DNV
is an independent foundation with the purpose of safeguarding
life, property, and the environment. DNV's history goes back
to 1864, when the foundation was established in Norway to
inspect and evaluate the technical condition of Norwegian
merchant vessels and has since established approximately 300
offices in 100 countries with over 9,000 employees from more
than 85 different nations. DNV has been accredited by SAAS
since 1998 and holds almost 10% of all SA8000 certificates.
Alice Tepper Marlin Social Accountability
International
Ms. Tepper Marlin serves as President & CEO of Social
Accountability International. She has held this position since
1997, upon the founding of SAI. She is currently also Adjunct
Professor of Markets and Ethics at NYU’s Stern School
of Business. Ms. Tepper Marlin has received numerous awards
(e.g. Adweek and Mademoiselle Woman of the Year, Japan Society
Fellow, Ashoka, Right Livelihood Award, Wellesley college
Alumna of the Year), been profiled in various newspapers and
magazines around the world (e.g. New York Times, People, Time,
Le Monde) and has also been interviewed on numerous television
and radio programs (e.g. Today Show, Good Morning America,
CNN). In 1969, Ms. Tepper Marlin founded the Council on Economic
Priorities (CEP) and served for three decades as President
& CEO. At CEP, she wrote and/or edited dozens of books,
including Shopping for a Better World (Ballantine Books).
Earlier, she served as a Securities Analyst and Labor Economist
at Burnham & Co., and as the editor of the tax journal
of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in the
Netherlands.
Olga Orozco, Business Social Compliance
Initiative
Dr. Olga Orozco is the Managing Director (Operations) for
the Business Social Compliance Initiative, a leading business-driven
initiative for companies committed to improving working conditions
in the global supply chain. BSCI unites 700+ mostly European
companies around a development-oriented system, applicable
to all sectors and sourcing countries. Dr. Orozco has more
than 15 years of experience in the area of Social Compliance,
conducting investigations of labour violations and code audits
for a number of schemes like WRAP, SA8000, BSCI and Fair Labor
Association. She also worked for 6 years as Director of Operations
for the SA8000 accredited auditing firm ALGI, holding positions
in USA, Latin America and China. Her background includes a
degree in agricultural sciences, a Masters degree in Biology
and a PhD degree in Botany. In the field of agriculture, Dr.
Orozco held positions as field researcher for BAYER AG in
Colombia and as lecturer for the New York Botanical Garden
(New York, USA) in the Plant Sciences Program.
Mike Patrick, TNT Express
Mr. Patrick is the Divisional Head Office Director for TNT
Express based in the UK and Amsterdam. He is responsible for
the development and implementation of the global strategies
for corporate responsibility. Mr. Patrick joined TNT Express
in 2002 in the health, safety and environmental department
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has held various positions
over the last five years within the divisional head office.
In his current role, he is responsible for the development,
deployment, achievement and maintaining of the Corporate Responsibility
strategy for TNT Express on a global basis, which covers health,
safety and environment, quality, social accountability and
the management and integrity of CR data. As Mr. Patrick has
global responsibility, he and his team travel extensively
to support the regions and countries in achieving the corporate
responsibility strategy. Mr. Patrick has a wife, son and daughter
and is based in Trinity Park Birmingham in the UK and in Amsterdam
The Netherlands. He is a qualified engineer and has worked
in manufacturing, enforcement, training, human resources,
risk management and operations in the public and private sectors.
Marina Piloni, SGS Italia
Ms. Marina Piloni is the Sustainability Service Development
Director at SGS Italia, a branch of the global certification
body. Ms. Piloni’s experience at SGS Italia has been
extensive – she has been an SA8000 Global Product Manager,
a CSR product developer and a marketing developer. Additionally,
Ms. Piloni has been trained in the SA8000 Auditor Training
Course, the SA8000 Advance Training course, the BSI Lead Auditor
Training Course, and the SRA SGS Service Training, based on
GRI and AA1000, for Sustainability Assurance Statement. Prior
to working at SGS, she worked in marketing and sales, and
consultation, committing to best practices. Ms. Piloni attended
a post-diploma course from ISTEDA/Bruxelles University in
Congressional Tourism.
Rossella Ravagli, Gucci
Ms. Ravagli is the Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
Manager at Gucci in Firenze, Italy. She is fully responsible
for the development of the Corporate Social Responsibility
programs and topics including marketing, training activities,
and support and coordination of the SA8000 standard. Ms. Ravagli
has spent over ten years working on corporate social responsibility
standards and has been responsible for development, training,
and marketing activities and commercial aspects within CSR.
Prior to working with Gucci, she was the Program Manager for
SA8000 at Bureau Veritas, a qualified SA8000 lead auditor
and tutor for SA8000 training course. Ms. Ravagli has worked
directly with Social Accountability International in many
aspects, and has been a qualified trainer for the SA8000 standard
(since January 1999) and the ISO9000 standard (July 1997-April
2003). Additionally, she is a CEPAS (IRCA Equivalent) certified
trainer (July 1998-December 2004).Ms. Ravagli has published
many interviews and articles about social accountability,
SA 8000 and human rights. Ms. Ravagli received her Degree
in Quality Assurance and Human and Resource developments,
as well as her Masters in Statistic and Economic Sciences
from Bologna University.
Achille Tonani, RINA SpA
Mr. Achille Tonani is currently the Head of Sustainability,
Governance and Innovation at RINA, a certification company
offering business activities including certification, verification
and assistance services to economic and institutional operators.
Mr. Tonani has been with RINA in various positions, including
SA8000 Lead Auditor, ISO 9001 Auditor, Product Manager for
SA8000, Developer for Corporate Governance and Responsibility,
Anti Bribery audit coordinator, ISO 28000 Auditor. In these
fields, he was responsible for developing new projects related
to social accountability, corporate governance, anti-bribery,
and health & safety. He acted as a consultant for the
Ministry of Labour and took part as speaker in several national
conferences. Mr. Tonani is currently a member of the Social
Accountability International SA8000 Advisory Board. He has
a degree in International Law and is an expert in the application
of OECD principles, with specific knowledge of anti-bribery
procedures.
Luca Valli, CISE
Mr. Valli is the Director of CISE - Centro per l'Innovazione
e lo Sviluppo Economico. CISE - Ethical Work Network has been
accredited for certification to the social accountability
standard SA8000 and for SA8000 auditor training since the
year 20001 .
Over the course of those years, rigorous procedures and absolute
respect for the spirit of SA8000 certification have established
Ethical Work Network's credibility and propelled it into the
position of market leader in Italy. The network was set up
on the initiative of CISE (Centre for Innovation and Economic
Development), itself a branch of the Forlì-Cesena Chamber
of Commerce, a public body which is legally bound to allow
all its stakeholders a share in its management policies. CISE
is an impartial certification body solely providing social
accountability certification.
Mort Winston, The College of New
Jersey
Dr. Winston is currently Professor at The College of New Jersey
and has served as Department Chair and Director of the Center
for Instructional Enhancement. His areas of specialization
include human rights theory, applied ethics, cognitive science,
and philosophy of technology. Dr. Winston’s most recent
books are "On Chomsky" and "Society, Ethics,
and Technology". He has contributed numerous articles
and chapters on topics related to human rights, biomedical
ethics, and applied ethics. Dr. Winston has held a visiting
faculty fellowship at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs, and received a
Fulbright Scholarship to South Africa. He has lectured extensively
on human rights topics and was awarded a second Fulbright
Scholarship to Thailand. In addition to his academic career,
Dr. Winston has pursued a parallel career as a human rights
activist with Amnesty International. From 1985-1991 he served
as Director of the South Africa Coordination Group of Amnesty
International USA, served as a member of AIUSA's national
Board of Directors from 1991-1997, and as Chair of the Board
from 1995-1997. He is currently Chair of AI’s Standing
Committee on Organization and Development and was founding
Chair of the Business and Economic Relations Group of Amnesty
International USA. He is also currently Honorary Chairman
of the Board of Directors of AIUSA. Dr. Winston is a member
of the SA8000 Advisory Board.
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