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GRI 13: Agriculture, Aquaculture andFishing Sectors 2022
Working Group Member Biographies
June 2022© GRI 2022

Contents
Project Working Group Members ........................................................................................................ 3
Darian McBain ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Yvonne Zhang ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Marina Prada ....................................................................................................................................... 4
Gary Philip ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Chris Brown ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Madison Boyd ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Tor Eirik Hommes ................................................................................................................................ 6
Joel Brounen ....................................................................................................................................... 6
Leah Samberg ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Jean-François Timmers ....................................................................................................................... 7
Valérie Bizier ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Brian Lindsay ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Jaqueline Dixon ................................................................................................................................... 9
Rik Beukers ......................................................................................................................................... 9
Ruth Thomas ..................................................................................................................................... 10
Aurélie Gupta ..................................................................................................................................... 10
Roxana Dobre ................................................................................................................................... 11
Ligia Baracat ...................................................................................................................................... 11
Rossen Karavatchev ......................................................................................................................... 12Page 2 of 12

Working Group Members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing members to participate in the Project Working Group that will develop content for an
Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fishing Sector Standard. The members represent diverse, multistakeholder backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge and experience incrop and animal production, aquaculture, and fishing.

Darian McBain
Chief Sustainability Officer, Monetary Authorityof Singapore (formerly Global Director,
Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, Thai
Union Group)
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Dr. Darian McBain is the Global Director of Corporate
Affairs and Sustainability at Thai Union, one of thelargest seafood processors in the world. Darian is on
the Global Leadership Team, Risk Management
Committee and Chair of the Sustainable Development
Committee. Her responsibilities cover Communications;Sustainable Development, and Safety, Health andEnvironment. Her previous work includes serving as theSustainable Procurement Lead for the United
Kingdom’s National Health Service, advising the United
Nations, working with WWF on palm oil and supply risk
analysis, and heading her own strategy andsustainability consultancy. She holds a PhD on social
indicators for global supply chain analysis from the
University of Sydney, where she serves as an AdjunctSenior Lecturer of Integrated Sustainability Analysis.
She is also a Director and Board Member of the not-forprofit Be Slavery Free, and a Non-Executive Director for
M.P. Evans.
Darian is the winner of the Edie Sustainability Leader of
the Year Award 2018, the Ethical Corporation 2018
Responsible Business Leader of the Year, the SeaWeb
Seafood Leader of the Year for Vision 2019, and is one
of CSR Asia’s Sustainability Superwomen 2019.

Yvonne Zhang
Direct Risk Advisory, Deloitte (formerly
Head of Investor Relations PRC, Halcyon Agri)
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Yvonne joined the working group as Head of Investor
Relations at Halcyon Agri, a multinational with an
integrated global network spanning plantations,processing, and distribution of rubber. Yvonne brings 15

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years of experience in commodities trading, productstructuring, impact investments and supply-chaintransparency deployment.
Knowledge sharing is an important part of Yvonne’s life,
she is a teaching fellow at Singapore University ofSocial Sciences, a contributing expert to ISO/TC 307,
ISO 20022 and founder of Aquifer Institute, a not-forprofit fintech R&D body.
Yvonne holds double degrees (Bachelor of Commerce
and Bachelor of Laws) from the University of Sydney.

Marina Prada
Head of Sustainability Performance, Syngenta
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Marina Prada oversees sustainability performance
management at Syngenta. She advises on mattersrelated to the company’s sustainability agenda andimplements related disclosure practices. She manages
internal and external sustainability reporting activities,
including information published in Syngenta’s
Sustainable Business Report, shared with external
stakeholders (e.g. investors, rating agencies, indexes)
and delivered to the Executive Team and Board of
Directors.
Prior to joining Syngenta in 2012, Marina worked nine
years in consulting at PwC’s Sustainability and Climate
Change practice. She has lived and worked inArgentina, Canada and Switzerland. She is an
Environmental Engineer and holds a Master of Business
Administration.

Gary Philip
Head of Sustainability Performance andReporting, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Gary has worked in the dairy sector for almost 20 years
in roles covering farmer-facing services, manufacturing
and, for the past 8 years, sustainability.
Since 2014, at Fonterra, Gary has led the adoption of
ISO26000 and the introduction of GRI Standards into
their sustainability reporting.
Gary has also been involved in the development of the
Dairy Sustainability Framework and represents Fonterraon the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative - Dairy Working
Group.
Gary is a Chartered Engineer and holds a PhD in
Robotic Systems (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

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1996) and a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 1986).

Chris Brown
Group Head, Corporate Responsibility
Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement,
Associated British Foods (formerly
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility &Sustainability, Olam International)
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Chris Brown joined the working group as the VP withresponsibility for environmental sustainability for OlamInternational Ltd., a leading global integrated supply
chain manager and processor of agricultural products
and food ingredients, supplying various products
including cocoa, coffee, cashew, sesame, rice, cotton
and wood products to 65 countries. In this role Chris
lead on Olam’s climate change and water agenda,
worked with the business to embed environmental value
as a tool for delivering business and societal value.
Chris transitioned to Associated British Foods plc, aBritish multinational food processing and retailingcompany headquartered in London, England. Its
ingredients division is the world's second-largest
producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major
producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers,
enzymes and lactose.
Chris holds an honours degree in Chemical Engineeringand a Postgraduate diploma in Environmental
Management. He brings 20 years of environmental
experience in a range of managerial positions from avariety of sectors including the waste sector, steel
sector, automotive sector with Toyota and the power
sector with E.ON.

Madison Boyd
Sustainability Manager, JBS USA
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Madison Boyd is the Sustainability Manager for JBS
USA where she is responsible for helping coordinate theCompany’s sustainability program, inclusive of its beef,
pork, poultry, case ready, transportation and branded
product businesses. In this role, Madison supports theCompany’s internal sustainability program and public
reporting initiatives to leverage best practices andreduce environmental and social impacts.
Originally from Washington, D.C., Madison was raisedwith a deep appreciation for agriculture and went on toreceive a BS in Animal and Dairy Sciences from
Mississippi State University. Today, her career objective

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is to expand the role of animal protein in global diets bybalancing all three pillars of sustainability, empowering
the animal protein industries to achieve on-the-groundprogress that improves the business climate, optimizes
efficiency and positions the industry to engage withproducer, influencer, stakeholder and retail audiences tochange the perception of animal protein sustainability

Tor Eirik Hommes
Director Feed and Nutrition, Grieg Seafood
ASA
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Tor Eirik Hommes has worked in the aquaculturebusiness for more than 25 years in different positions
and lately as CSO in Grieg Seafood ASA. Tor Eirik is
responsible for feed and Nutrition, R&D coordination
and Grieg Seafood ASA’s work on Sustainability.
Tor Eirik has been a member in taskforces in GSI(Global Salmon Initiative) since its inception. He has
also been part of the Steering group for developing a
new ASC Feed standard for aquaculture.
Tor Eirik has a strong dedication for sustainable(aquaculture) production organized in a transparent andacceptable form. He is a Norwegian citizen and live inBergen on the west coast of Norway.

Joel Brounen
Country Director Colombia, Solidaridad
Network
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Joel has worked over 15 years in agro-supply chains,international trade and sustainability. He is based in
Bogotá, Colombia and one of the key figures behind the
GRI Focal Point Latin America. He worked for ethicaltrading companies, UN and NGOs, gaining wide
experience with the implementation of Voluntary
Sustainability Standards. As a researcher hecontributed to impact analyses of corporate
sustainability strategies. Joel is Director of Solidaridad
Network in Colombia, developing digital solutions,finance and continuous improvement models for agrosupply chains. Joel holds Master´s Degrees inInternational Economics & Economic Geography(University of Utrecht) and Sustainability Leadership(University of Cambridge).

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Leah Samberg
Scientist, Global Programs, Rainforest
Alliance, Rainforest Alliance / Accountability
Framework Initiative (AFi)Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Dr. Leah Samberg is a scientist with the Rainforest
Alliance’s Global Programs department, and a memberof the Accountability Framework initiative’s backbone
team, where she leads the AFi’s workstream on
Reporting and Assessment.
Prior to her work with the Rainforest Alliance, she was a
Research Associate with the University of Minnesota’s
Institute on the Environment, where she worked to link
agricultural production, conservation, and humanwellbeing using ecological and social data.
Leah has a doctorate from the Environmental Studies
program at UC Santa Cruz, and a BA in Ecology from
Dartmouth College.

Jean-François Timmers
Global Soy Lead, WWF
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Jean-François Timmers is WWF Global Soy Leader.
Biologist with specialization in Economics and MSc in
Ecology, Conservation and Sustainable Development,
he led conservation, development, advocacy andresearch projects and programs in Brazil since 1992.
Among these, he coordinated the “Man and the
Biosphere – MAB” Program of UNESCO in Brazil andadvocated for the international recognition of theimportance of the Cerrado and other Brazilian
ecosystems. He also coordinated the creation of newFederal protected areas in the Atlantic Forest, leading to
the protection of more than 315 thousand hectares ofhighly threatened last remnants of original forests. He
joined WWF-Brazil in 2012 to set up its Public Policies
program, dealing with a wide range of policy, legislativeand conservation issues in Brazil, among which thenegotiations and implementation of the Soy Moratorium
in the Amazon. In 2015, he joined WWF International as
Global Soy Lead, coordinating WWF network´s actions
aiming at responsible soy supply chains worldwide.
From June 2016 to March 2017, Jean-François also led
the initial structuring of WWF's new Global Food
Practice, debating and framing the future scope ofWWF's global actions on food.

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Valérie Bizier
Senior Statistician, Statistics Governance andQuality, Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
As a Senior Statistician in FAO’s Office of the Chief
Statistician, Ms Bizier actively contributes to thecoordination and quality assurance of FAO’s statisticalprogrammes, including its mandate as a custodian
agency for 21 SDG indicators. She also leads theorganization’s work on the development of SDG
indicators for private sector entities involved in food andagriculture. Before joining FAO in 2016, she worked
more than 15 years in Statistics Canada, where she
accumulated extensive work experiences in measuring
different aspects of Canada’s economy and society,including statistics on the agricultural sector.
Ms. Bizier holds Bachelor Degrees in Statistics(University of Sherbrooke) and International
Development and Global Studies (University of Ottawa)
as well as a Master’s degree in International
Management (National School of Public Administration,
Canada).

Brian Lindsay
Position: Managing Director, Lindsay
Consulting – Sustainable Solutions. Director,
Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Brian operates a global consulting business bridging the
gap between food companies (both multi-national andregional) and their agricultural suppliers in a quest formutually beneficial approaches to achieving sustainable
food systems.
Brian also holds the post of Director for the Dairy
Sustainability Framework and is responsible for its
continued development and daily operations. This
industry initiative currently covers 30% of global milk
production (48% of the formal global milk market). The
DSF is a model that allows members to adapt theirsustainability programs to suit local needs and priorities
in a globally aligned and quantifiable way. Applying
indicator metrics developed using a science-based
approach, the DSF aggregates membership data toenable the development of evidence-based,sustainability reporting for the global dairy sector. BrianPage 8 of 12also operates a small specialist lamb production unit
marketing directly to the consumer.

Jacqueline Dixon
Associate Consultant Incite / Hong Kong
Sustainable Seafood Coalition (HKSSC)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Jacqui Dixon has 18 years of experience in thecorporate accountability and sustainability field in Asia
and South Africa. She helped to establish the Hong
Kong Sustainable Seafood Coalition (HKSSC) in 2018
and remains the technical adviser / Steering Committee
member. She is also an Associate Consultant at Incite
operating out of South Africa. Positions in Asia included
her role as Sustainability Director at seafood company
Pacific Andes (listed in Hong Kong and Singapore) andCountry Director at CSR Asia in Hong Kong. She has apostgraduate diploma in Poverty, Land and AgrarianStudies, a MProf in Leadership for Sustainable
Development and a BSC (Hons) in Environmental andGeographical Science.

Rik Beukers
Lead Research Seafood Stewardship Index,
World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)Constituency: Mediating Institution
Rik works at the World Benchmarking Alliance, where
he leads the research of the Seafood StewardshipIndex, assessing the sustainability performance of theleading companies in the seafood industry. Thisbenchmark was published for the first time in 2019. He
is also involved in the methodology development ofWBA’s first Food and Agriculture Benchmark. Before
joining the World Benchmarking Alliance, he worked for
Wageningen Economic Research, specializing inseafood markets and value chains.
Rik holds a master’s degree in Environmental
Economics (Wageningen University, 2007) and
Environmental Sciences (Utrecht University, 2005). He
is also a passionate birdwatcher.

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Ruth Thomas
Director of Global Agriculture Alliance, World
Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Ruth Thomas has 20 years’ experience in multistakeholder partnerships, sustainability strategy,
stakeholder engagement and issues management
across resource-intensive sectors. Prior to her role as
Director Global Agribusiness Alliance and Soft
Commodities Forum at WBCSD, she was theProgramme Lead for SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability
Assessment (2016-2017) and Manager for theEnvironment Programme at the International Council on
Mining and Metals (2011 – 2016). She has also heldroles for British American Tobacco, WWF-UK and Shell
International. She holds a PGC from Cambridge
Programme for Sustainability Leadership, a BSc in
Agricultural and Environmental Science and an MSc
Environmental Science from UCL.

Aurélie Gupta
Investment Officer, Manufacturing
Agribusiness and Services, International
Finance Corporation (IFC) (formerly VP, Impact
Advisory and Finance department, Credit
Suisse)Constituency: Investment institution
Aurélie initially represented Crédit Suisse on theworking group. She dedicated most of her career to the
Commodity and Agribusiness sectors through various
corporate finance positions globally. Through various
roles in banks (Crédit Agricole, Standard Chartered,
ABN, Credit Suisse) and in commodity trading company(Noble Agri, now COFCO), Aurélie witnessed theincreasing importance of Sustainability in global supply
chains. Early 2019, she joined Credit Suisse’s impact
investing and sustainable finance team, based in
Singapore.
Aurélie graduated from Sciences Po Bordeaux inFrance and is the Founder of the industry organization‘Women in Agribusiness’ (WOMAG) in Singapore.

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Roxana Dobre
Associate Director, Consumer Goods Research
Sustainalytics
Constituency: Investment Institution
Roxana joined Sustainalytics, an ESG and Corporate
Governance research and rating company, in 2013.
Roxana leads the Consumer Goods Sector, focusing on
conducting ESG company research and analysis.
Before joining Sustainalytics, she worked as a ProjectManager for the KfW Carbon Fund, focusing on
developing carbon trading mechanisms for German
companies in partnership with the European Investment
Bank. Roxana holds a MSc in International Economics
and Economic Policy from the Goethe University inFrankfurt, were she focused on development economics
and energy efficiency strategies.

Ligia Baracat
Policy and Network Officer, Corporate JusticeCoalition (formerly Human Rights andBusiness Officer, Forest Peoples Programme)
Constituency: Civil Society Institution
Ligia Baracat started on the working group as a
Business and Human Rights Project Officer
representing Forest Peoples Programme, an NGO
whose mandate comes directly from partnerorganisations who represent indigenous peoples andforest communities from across the globe. Ligia latertransitioned to Corporate Justice Coalition, an NGO witha focus on protecting human rights and theenvironment.
Ligia is an applied anthropologist who work focuses on
the movement towards mandatory human rights andenvironmental due diligence to aid corporate
accountability. Ligia has an MA in the Anthropology ofDevelopment, School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) in London and studied Social Anthropology in
Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Rossen Karavatchev
Senior Section Assistant - Seafarers’ Fisheries
and Inland Navigation Section, International
Transport Workers' Federation
Constituency: Labor Organization
Rossen Karavatchev works in the Maritime Departmentof the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
in London since 2004 with special emphasis on thepolitical work programmes of the Fisheries and Inland
Navigation Sections.
Rossen represents the ITF, and lobbies for, andpromotes the ITF maritime campaigns and positions toexternal bodies, including relevant UN agencies like theILO, FAO and IMO and other intergovernmentalorganisations and major NGOs. He was actively
involved in the process of adoption of the ILO Work in
Fishing Convention, 2007 and follow up activities on its
promotion, ratification and implementation.
Among other activities, recently he was involved indevelopment of the Seafish UK RFVS (Responsible
Fishing Vessel Standard), the Fishery Progress, US
Social policy for Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs)
and ongoing consultations on development of the FAO
Guidelines on Social Responsibility in Fish Value
Chains.

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