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Pauline Tiffen Associate

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Pauline Tiffen is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fair Trade, an Open Access publication dedicated to advancing a wide range of experiences and ideas about protecting people and planet. She has worked actively to make trade fair for more than 30 years: as worker, company director, innovator, advisor, consultant, mentor and writer. 

Pauline Tiffen

Pauline was the co-founder of two successful and game-changing fair trade companies Cafédirect and Divine Chocolate and a founding board member of the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO). She currently divides her time between running a small fair trade support and finance company, Ollema, and consultancy with Verité (Fair Labor. Worldwide). She holds advisory roles in Uganda as Chairperson of the Rwenzori Sustainable Trade Centre, in Amsterdam as an Supervisory Board member of the Transnational Institute and in the United Kingdom as Trustee of the Pluto Educational Trust.

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  • Who cares about Fair Trade? An introduction to the Journal of Fair Trade and the Fair Trade Society

    Pauline Tiffen (TNI Board member), Editor -in-Chief of the Journal of Fair Trade, and a pioneer of the movement, explains the rationale for launching the Fair Trade Society - a worldwide membership organisation which owns the Journal of Fair Trade. She describes the complex but impactful story of the Fair Trade movement so far, while laying out the challenges we face, the relevance of Fair Trade and aspirations we should have for a fairer and environmentally safe global economy.

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