Pauline Tiffen
Director of Strategic Planning
Pauline has worked for academic institutions, mainstream and alternative business, the voluntary sector, co-operative and community and development organizations North and South, in advisory, executive and non-executive positions. She has demonstrated an exceptional ability to nurture cross-cultural economic exchange and to develop new forms of business over more than fifteen years of work in the alternative trading sector in traditional and non-traditional commodities.
Pauline was the founder of two pioneering fair trade companies: Cafedirect and The Day Chocolate Company, including the supply chain/farmer participation. From 1989-1997, she served as the Executive and Managing Director of Twin Trading, Ltd. Pauline was a Founding Board member of the International Federation of Alternative Trade (IFAT) and, since 2003, Board Member and adviser of the North American Fair Trade Federation, a network of 200 innovative Fair Trade businesses.
Since 2000 she has been an Operations Adviser to the World Bank, creating ways for primary producers and local financial institutions in Africa and Latin America to access financial products to hedge their exposure and risk. She has also been working at the WB and International Finance Corporation on corporate social responsibility and regional branding/marketing pilot projects in Central America.
