Seminar Series

FAIR TRADE HANDBOOK – WEBINAR SERIES

PART 3 – PURSUING GLOBAL JUSTICE

DECEMBER 1, 2022

9:30 to11:00 am MST

Panel Discussion -Pursuing Global Justice

Panel de discusion – En buscsa de la justicia global

Join us as we present the CFTN 2022 Webinar Series and Book Club in Three Parts. Read along with each Section of the Fair Trade Hand Book, as we present a panel of speakers from each Section of the Book. Bring your questions for the speakers and be prepared to also network with your fellow fair-traders during our interactive speed-networking and trivia activities. Reconnect with the canadian fair trade community and let’s get excited for another year of growing the movement!

Jeronimo Pruijn has a masters degree in anthropology. Originally from Holland, he has lived for over 30 years in Mexico.

He began his fair trade career in the late 1980’s as a volunteer at the first fair trade label, Max Havelaar Netherlands.

He has worked for organizations, networks and companies of organizations of small producers since 2009. He served as executive director of SPP Global, an intercontinental network of organization of small, organic producers.

Ian Hudson is a professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba.

He researches in the areas of political economy and ethical consumption. Along with Mark Hudson and Mara Fridell, he has co-authored several peer reviewed articles on fair trade as well as the book Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change.

Sujata Dey is the former trade Campaigner at the Gouncil of Canadians, and worked actively on the NAFTA renegotiation, the Canada-European CETA trade agreement, and other trade agreements.

Having lobbied and presented to politicians in Europe and Canada, Dey has been quoted in international and domestic media outlets.

Dey has 20 years of experience in NGO work, having also worked in Montreal politics, international issues and political campaigns.

Elena Lunder is a policy and project advisor at the Fair Trade Advocacr Office, a joint Fair Trade movement initiative based in Brussels.

With a background in European Studies and international human rights law. Elena is leading the ITA0 work on the upcoming EU legislation on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.

Based on existing expertise and experience of the Fair Trade movement, she is focusing on brining the perspective of smallholder farmers into the EU conversation around due diligence.