Dorianne Beyer,
National Child Labor Committee
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. Ms. Beyer has been a national and international
labor standards lawyer, author, trainer and speaker for the
past 25 years. 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.
She 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 currently
serves as a member of the Accreditation Committee for SAAS.
John Brookes, AIG
Mr. Brookes is presently the Assistant Vice President for
quality management at AIG Consultants. As the AVP for quality
management, Mr. Brookes maintains the management and quality
processes for global insurance engineering services. This
encompasses ISO 9001 compliance systems, managing and integrating
business improvement initiatives into the business. Prior
to joining AIG, Mr. Brookes was owner of Management Accountability
Systems from 2002 to 2005, providing quality, environmental
and social accountability consulting, auditing and training.
Between 1991 and 2001, Mr. Brookes was the senior vice president
of business development for SGS International Certification
Services. In this role, Mr. Brookes was a founding member
of the SAI Advisory Board, the program manager for social
accountability, an SA8000 lead auditor and trainer, and assisted
SAI in performing social accountability reporting evaluations.
Mr. Brookes also participated in the development of the certification
program for SGS for SA8000. Prior to joining SGS, he was a
quality consultant and lead auditor for ISO 9001 and was a
registered auditor with IRCA. Mr. Brookes currently serves
as a member of the Accreditation Committee for SAAS.
Tom DeLuca, Toys R Us
Mr. DeLuca is Vice President of Imports and Compliance for
Toys “R” Us. He has over 30 years of retailing
experience and has spent the last 20 years with Toys “R”
Us in senior management positions. Mr. DeLuca is also responsible
for the company’s benchmark toy safety compliance programs
that he developed and implemented in 1989. In 1995, the company
was honored by the Chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety
Commission for its’ significant accomplishments in toy
safety. His responsibilities include the company’s comprehensive
Code of Conduct for Suppliers program that he authored and
implemented in 1997. In that same year Toys “R”
Us was honored with “The Pioneer Award in Global Ethics”
as a corporate conscience award winner by the Council on Economic
Priorities (CEP). He was formerly Chairman of SA8000 Advisory
Board and a member of SAI’s Board of Directors. Mr.
DeLuca has been a frequent guest speaker and panelist at numerous
conferences on Codes of Conduct, Responsible Business Practices,
and International Labor Standards.
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