FTAO welcomes two new board members

As of 1 July 2024, FTAO welcomed Magdalena Śliwińska and Prasanna Kumar G N as new board members. They are succeeding Peter van Dam and Madelaine Njeri Muga. The FTAO warmly thanks the engagement and commitment of Peter and Madelaine and their valuable contributions to our work! An overview of the new constellation of the FTAO board can be found here.

Magdalena and Prasanna Kumar are excited to join the FTAO board:

Magdalena: “I am happy to join the FTAO board because I am convinced that Fair Trade constitutes a very important element of sustainable transition. I hope to support the realisation of the FTAO mission using my experience on European integration, EU competition policy and sustainable markets.”

Prassana: “I have been involved in Fair Trade since 2008 actively and because I am also a small producer, I understand the problem of a producer at the very base level and the hurdles’ he is facing from production to marketing. I have taken some positions at the administration level and NAPP board as well as FTI and had dialogues, debates and discussions to address these issues and to make it easy. When I got an offer to become a board member of the FTAO, I thought it was the best platform to bring these issues and find some of the best answers to FTI and the large FT community.”

The FTAO is looking forward to the future collaboration!