Global Fairness Initiative
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The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI) was launched in 2001 and "is founded on the premise that economic globalization can and should work to improve the lives of impoverished and marginalized populations around the world by creating jobs and economic opportunities." [1]
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Supporters
2006 supporters include:
- Agnus Gund Foundation
- Coca Cola Foundation
- Draper Richards Foundation (for Synapse Market Access Fund)
- International Finance Corporation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- United States Department of State
- World Bank
Partners
- Acumen Fund
- Caspian Development Advisory Panel
- Club of Madrid
- Fair Labor Association
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation
- Holdeen India Program
- Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, UKRAINE
- National Foreign Trade Council
- Rainforest Alliance
- Ukraine in Europe and the World
- Women's Edge
Staff
- Karen Tramontano, Founder and President
- Stanley Sylvan Byers, Executive Director
- John Audley, Senior Advisor
- Salomon Cohen, Project Director, Central America
- Bharat Kakkad, Managing Director, The Synapse Market Access Fund:
Directors
- William Clinton - Chair
- Grant D. Aldonas
- Jose Maria Figueres
- Shepard Forman
- Peter Gubbels
- Willem Kok (Wim Kok)
- Carlose Murillo-Rodrigruez
- Reema Nanavaty
- Sally Painter - Treasurer/Secretary
- Muchtar Pakpahan
- Iqbal Qadir
- Peter Stoyanov
- John Sweeney
- Karen Tramontano - President
Advisors
- Bill Antholis, Director of Strategic Planning at the Brookings Institution
- Steven Bennett: Chief of Staff, the Brookings Institution
- Susan Davis, ILO, External senior advisor to the Director General of the International Labor Organization and consultant to Ashoka
- Nancy A. Donaldson, Vice President with Dutko Worldwide
- Andrew Evans
- H.E. Roland Eng, Ambassador-at-Large and Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia
- Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
- Kathy Sreedhar
- Lou Ventino
Contact
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
- Huseyin Gun - former chair of advisory board
