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WFTO is democratically run by its members on a one-(full guaranteed)member-one-vote basis. The Board and President are elected by the members, who also vote on the strategy, budgets and updates to our Fair Trade Principles, together with any other major change to the organisation.

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Roopa Mehta

President

Roopa Mehta leads Sasha Association for Craft Producers (India), an exemplary WFTO member selling fashion and home products around the world. Her association with Fair Trade began in 1978 and she moved over full time to Sasha in 1985. She has served on the board of Fair Trade Forum India and the Asia WFTO board. She was voted on to the WFTO Global board as an independent board member in May 2011. Roopa completed an Economic honours course, followed with an MBA degree from Delhi University. She began her career with a leading Indian chain of hotels and moved on to be an Executive Director of a company producing and retailing high-end women’s clothing using traditional dyeing, printing and embroidery techniques.

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Pieter Swart

Treasurer

Pieter Swart is the WFTO Africa and Middle East representative to the board. Pieter works for Turqle Trading (South Africa).

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Luis Heller

Secretary

Luis is the WFTO Latin America regional representative to the board. Luis works for Allpa (Peru).

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Sophie Tack

Board Member

Sophie Tack is the WFTO Europe regional representative to the board. Sophie works for Oxfam Magasins du Monde (Belgium).

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Sunil Chitrakar

Board Member

Sunil Chitrakar is the regional representative for WFTO Asia. As the CEO of the Organization, he provides leadership at Mahaguthi Craft with Conscience. He is also the Vice President of Fair Trade Group Nepal and Federation of Handicraft Association of Nepal. For over 4 years, Sunil has been a faculty Member at School of Management, Tribhuvan University where he earned his Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Marketing.

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Chris Solt

Board member

Chris Solt is the WFTO Pacific representative to the board, based in the United States. As Executive Director of the Fair Trade Federation (FTF), Chris leads the strategic, administrative, and programmatic aspects of the FTF, a trade association of fair trade enterprises in the US and Canada, which is also a fair trade network member of the WFTO. Prior to joining the FTF, Chris spent over ten years with Ten Thousand Villages US, developing the capacity of their retail network of fair trade stores, and leading training seminars, events, and conferences. Chris earned a BA in Social Science at Cleveland State University, and a Master’s Degree in Organisational Leadership with a Graduate Certificate in Human Resources from Southern New Hampshire University.

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Giorgio Dal Fiume

Board Member

Giorgio Dal Fiume is an independent board member. He was a President of WFTO-Europe from 2010 until 2017 and has been involved in Fair Trade since 1992. He worked as a President of Ctm Altromercato (Italian FT importer) from 1998 to 2007, visited and audited dozens of Fair Trade organisations. He coordinated “Terra Equa”, Festival on Fair Trade and Social Economy and is an author of several articles and publications on Fair Trade and Intercultural issues.

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Swapan Kumar Das

Board Member

Swapan Kumar Das started his career with Mennonite Central Committee in 1986 as an Agricultural Extensionist to work with grassroots farmers to motivate them in cultivating soybean as a new crop in Bangladesh. Later he moved to MCC’s Job Creation Program and worked in the fields of financial management, internal auditing, fund management, administration and Human Resource Management of international non-government organisations based in Bangladesh. He was the head of the financial and administrative services department of MCC, Bangladesh since 2006. After working with MCC for more than 25 years, he moved to Prokritee as its CEO in late 2010. Swapan Das has been playing the roles of Chairperson of ECOTA Fair Trade Country Network for the last 7 years in a row, Vice-President of World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Asia for the last three years, one of the Directors of Jute Sector Industry Skills Council (ISC) of the National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) in Bangladesh.
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Indro Dasgupta

Board Member
Indro Dasgupta is an independent board member. Indro works for Craft Resource Center, India. Previously, Indro worked in the corporate sector in various roles for 17 years before he decided to be a full-time Fair Trader. He firmly believes that income generation for marginalised artisans, through Fair Trade, is one of the most viable routes to alleviating the alarming and chronic levels of poverty and income inequality that we observe in the world today. Indro holds a Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Calcutta and the University of Delhi, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, where he also serves as Adjunct Faculty in Economics.
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Turnover Indication 2024

Please upload your latest financial statement here (if possible audited, otherwise signed or stamped by the organisation representative). Ensure that your Income & Expenditure sheet is included. Depending on your financial year, your latest financial statement will most likely be from December 2022 or March 2024. We accept all statements for full financial years closed between December 2022 – July 2024, depending on your audits and which statements you have available. Check your 2023 submission to see the latest data we have at hand. Ideally, you now upload the details from the year afterwards. Get in touch via email (nicole@wfto.com) if newer statements are not yet available.

In the fields below, please indicate the details on your financial statement and your total turnover/sales. If you are a Fair Trade Organizations (FTOs), indicate your total turnover. This includes namely (but not only): Income from all trading activities and income from the provision of services. It does exclude income from grants, donations, asset reevaluations, and changes in stock value (where applicable).

If you are a Fair Trade Support Organizations (FTSOs) or a Fair Trade Networks (FTNs), indicate your total gross revenues. This includes all income from whatever source, not limited to cash received. To help us identify your indicated turnover, please use the “Details on turnover” section to specify how your indicated turnover figure is computed (write the name of the relevant lines as per your submitted financial statements in the language of the statement). You can also use this section for any other comments you have with regards to your turnover.

The WFTO team will check your submitted data and confirm the equivalent turnover/income amount in Euro. The Euro amount will form the basis for the calculation of your membership fee. For all currencies other than Euro, WFTO will apply uniform conversion rules. Due to the widely varying financial reporting periods among members, the date of the conversion is set at the end date of the financial report.

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