The Board of Directors is responsible for the implementation of the Assembly’s mandate. It is composed by representatives of all the regions of the continent, of all the products, as well as of plantation workers certified by the Fairtrade Hired Labor standard.
The body responsible for implementing the established strategic lines by the General Assembly is the Board of Directors, which has a balanced representation of the different subregions and main products of the continent.
Our Board of Directors is form by 15 members that represent product networks, regions and workers. As for products, we find 2 representatives for coffee, 1 for bananas, 1 for cocoa, 1 for fresh fruits and juices, 1 for sugar, 1 for honey, and 2 representatives for the other products. As for the regions, there are 2 members that represent South America, 1 for Central America, 1 for Mexico y 1 for the Caribbean. The Board of Directors is completed with 1 representative for workers.
Composition
The Board of Directors was elected in the General Assembly held virtually on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2022 for the 2022-2024 period. The new board took office at the end of April 2022. It is conformed by the following representatives:
Region / Product / Network represented – Name
- Fresh fruit and juice representative: Yoriely Villalobos (Costa Rica), who also serves as President of the CLAC Council
- Coffee representative: Merlin Preza (Nicaragua).
- Coffee representative: Vladimir Vivanco (Peru).
- Cocoa representative: Mónica Pamela Esquivel (Peru).
- Banana representative: Marike de Peña (Dominican Republic), who also serves as Vice President of the CLAC Council.
- Sugar cane representative: Cosme Hernández (Belize).
- Other products representative: Felipe Zúñiga (Chile)
- Honey representative: Ana Laura Sayago (Argentina)
- Workers’ representative: Hilma Altagracia Díaz (Dominican Republic)
- Workers’ representative: Wilther Zambrano (Colombia)
- Representative for Mexico: Silvia Herrera (Mexico), who also serves as Secretary of the CLAC Council.
- Representative for Central America: Elder Romero (Honduras)
- Representative for the Caribbean: Avory Pérez (Cuba)
- Representative for South America: Eyver Díaz (Colombia)
- Representative for South America: Carlos Renato Theodoro (Brazil)
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Surveillance Board
The oversight board is made up of Víctor Cordero from Colombia, who serves as chair; Ángel Burgos from Mexico, who serves as vice chair; and Andrea Serna from Argentina, who serves as secretary.
Working comissions
The Board of Directors works in comissions that develop strategies and plans about different themes. Know the work of the comissions in these videos.
Inclusion comission report
Advocacy comission report
Climate change comission report
Social compliance comission report
CLAC’s Standards Committee
The CLAC Standards Committee is a permanent technical working committee. Created in March 2015, its purpose is to address all matters related to standards within CLAC, advise the Board of Directors, and support the work of CLAC’s representative on Fairtrade International’s Standards Committee. It is composed of five people, four of whom are from the Board of Directors, who together with the CLAC representative constitute the Standards Committee.
The Commission is responsible for responding to all requests from Fairtrade International’s Standards Unit and Standards Committee, CLAC’s Board of Directors, CLAC organizations, and other actors in the system regarding all standards-related issues. The CLAC Standards Committee reviews and approves documents that are sent to Fairtrade International’s Standards Unit and Standards Committee; it follows up on standards review and consultation processes, among other activities.
Report of the CLAC Standards Committee (CECLAC)
CECLAC currently has seven members, who may be members of the Board of Directors, former members of the Board of Directors, or former CLAC representatives on the Fairtrade Standards Committee. They are elected every three years.
