Elaine Jones

Elaine Jones is an independent consultant in Ethical and Fair Trade. She works together with Mo Tomaney as part of a two person team on a Commonwealth Secretariat supported project in developing market access with rural women textile producers in Pakistan. Elaine has worked in international development for almost 30 years, latterly concentrating on organisational development, promoting market access for small producers in developing countries into Fair Trade markets and working with organisations advocating for labour rights in global supply chains. She is particularly interested in highlighting the presence of informal workers, particularly women, in supply chains as they are often invisible, unacknowledged and among the most exploited. She has recently contributed to a chapter in the Routledge publication: Fair Trade, The Challenges of Transforming Globalization, (Edited by Laura Reynolds, Douglas Murray and John Wilkinson).