The Fair Labor Association is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has offices in Europe and China. Our team is diverse, experienced, and cares deeply about protecting workers’ rights. Contact us.

Executive
Auret van Heerden, President and CEO (bio)
Jorge Perez-Lopez, Executive Director (bio)
Corinne Adam, Director of Services & Training (bio)
Heeral Coleman, Director of Communications & Outreach (bio)
Ockert Dupper, Director of Accountability (bio)
Tess Esposito, Director of Finance
Richa Mittal, Director, Agriculture & Strategic Projects (bio)

Staff
Huaijun (Greta) Bi, General Manager - Shanghai office
Kevin Bosson, Agriculture Program Coordinator Côte d’Ivoire
Sabrina Bosson, Manager, Strategic Projects
HeeWon Brindle-Khym, Acting Director of Civil Society Engagement
Christine Briscoe, Training and Development Manager (Americas)
Sonia Burguillo, Executive Assistant
Rohini Chandrasekaran, Agriculture Program Coordinator
Yu-rong Chang, Analyst
Franklin Chavarria, SCI Program Manager
Francisco Chicas, SCI Assessor
Jennifer Clarke, Accreditation Program Manager
Bercin Dogan, Assessor
Yu-Lan Duggan, Licensee Program Manager
Luke Elliott, Research Assistant
Kenan Ercel, Quality and Transparency Program Manager
Lan (Nancy) Feng, CSR Trainer
Eda Nur Gencer, Assessor
Betsy Greer, Communications Assistant, Accountability Program
Cecila Guay, Administrative Assistant
Dang Thi Hai Ha, Vietnam Project Manager
Ying Huang, Research Assistant
Vu Thi Thu Huong, Assessment Team Leader
Bendangienla Jamir, Research Assistant
Chao Jiang, Research Assistant
Evre Kaynak, Eastern Hemisphere Coordinator
Patrick Kigongo, Administrative Assistant, Monitoring Program
Britta Klemmer, Director, Global Forum for Sustainable Supply Chains
Julia Kohlmorgen, Special Assistant
Reuben Levy, Business Affiliates Program Manager
Bijie Li, Fair Wage Associate
Yong Dong Li, Training and Capacity Building Assistant
Yuanyuan Li, SCOPE Analyst
April Linton, Statistical Tools and Survey Manager
Xili Ma, Senior Research Assistant
Sarah Mahoney, Visual & Digital Media Manager
KVS Mani, Agriculture Program Administrator
David Miller, Staff Accountant II
Allison Milne, Global Accreditation Manager
Egidio Moniz, Agriculture Program Coordinator
Maitreyee Mukherjee, Instructional Design Leader
Victor Cora Nazario, IT Manager
Yakut Oktay, Assessor
Julia Parmley, University Outreach Associate
Jingwen Peng, Eastern Hemisphere Accreditation Associate
Aaron Pickering, Communications Manager
Huizen Qian, Research & Assessment Manager
Pham Lam Thuy Quynh, Vietnam Training Manager
Tiffany Rogers, Accreditation Assistant
Sunil Sahai, Eastern Hemisphere Manager for Agriculture and Strategic Projects
Bridget Scanlan, Electronics Program Manager
Joe Shen, Assessment Manager
Evie Stephenson, Business Affiliates Program Associate
Asude Suleymanoglu, Assessor
Anne Terraz, Administrative Assistant
Muge Tuna, Assessor
Gulden Ulker, Assessor
Rashmi Venkatesan, Global Engagement Associate, South Asia
Beatriz Vera, Special Assistant
Isilsu Vural, Regional Training Manager (EMEA)
Piera Waibel, Global Manager for Agriculture
Danlin Wang, Assessor
Roy Wang, SCI Assessor
Robert Washington, Junior Accountant
Jin Yan, Lead Assessor
Glorify Zekila, Help Desk Technician
Zhenni Zhu, Administrator

Auret van Heerden, President & CEO
Auret van Heerden brings more than 30 years experience in international human and labor rights to the FLA. He began campaigning for workers’ rights as a young student in apartheid South Africa and co-authored a book in 1976 that called for trade union rights for black workers. He served two terms as president of the National Union of South African Students. After graduating in industrial sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, he founded an institute that provided research and training services to trade unions and civil society groups. He was forced into exile in May 1987 after long periods of solitary confinement and torture. In 1988, Auret joined the International Labor Organization (ILO) and worked on its Program of Action against Apartheid in Geneva until 1994 when the new democratic South African government appointed him Labor Attaché in the South African Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva. He returned to the ILO in 1996, where he worked on labor relations issues in 25 zone-operating countries and established a Swiss-funded project to improve labor relations in Special Economic Zones in China. Back to top.

Jorge Perez-Lopez, Executive Director
Jorge Perez-Lopez joined the FLA in June 2005. Prior to this, he spent 31 years in the U.S. government, where he developed extensive expertise in international economics, trade relations, and labor standards. For nearly two decades, Jorge directed the Office of International Economic Affairs, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor. There, he was involved in the development, implementation and negotiation of U.S. trade policies and directed a supporting research program in international economics. He coordinated the Department of Labor’s participation within the U.S. Government negotiating teams in the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and of bilateral free trade agreements with Chile, Singapore, Morocco, Australia, Central America and the Dominican Republic, and the Andean countries, with emphasis on the labor provisions or chapters of such agreements. Jorge has authored several books and numerous articles on international economics and trade relations, labor standards, and Latin American economics. He holds a Master's and Ph.D. degree in economics from the State University of New York at Albany. Back to top.

Corinne Adam, Director of Services & Training
Corinne joined FLA in August 2012 and oversees the organization's affiliate services and training programs. She has more than 10 years’ experience in advisory, monitoring and training services in sustainability for organizations and businesses in manufacturing, consumer goods and retail. Previously, Corinne served as Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Gildan Activewear, where she helped prepare the company's compliance program for FLA accreditation in 2008. Corinne acquired a broad international background over the last 25 years, and has served in various capacities with corporations, international humanitarian organizations (United Nations Development Programme, International Committee of the Red Cross), and NGOs (Verite) - where she worked as a labor rights researcher and social compliance monitor. Corinne was also a member of the FLA Board of Directors from 2008 to 2011. She was educated in France and the United States. Back to top.

Heeral Coleman, Director, University & Licensee Services, Communications
Heeral Coleman oversees the FLA’s university program and its communications activities. Additionally, she serves as Project Manager for the new FLA technology platform that has been under development since late 2009. Heeral joined the FLA in March 2007 and brings 10 years of professional experience from her native India, including 4 years with Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Mumbai. During her time at Ogilvy PR Mumbai, she was named team leader for the Technology and Corporate & Finance practice areas. Heeral holds an M.A. in International Policy & Practice from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and an M.A. in Public Communication from American University in Washington, D.C. Back to top.

Ockert Dupper, Director of Accountability
Ockert Dupper joined the FLA in August 2012. Before that, he was Professor of Law at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he taught labor law and social security law. He was also the co-director of the Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (CICLASS). He has published widely on a number of topics, including employment discrimination, affirmative action, the extension of social protection, unemployment insurance, and the rights of migrant workers. He regularly consulted to the International Labour Organization (ILO), and as a consultant to the Institute for Social Law and Policy (ISLP) and the International Institute for Social Law and Policy (IISLP), he has been involved in a range of social security-related projects for various South African government departments and agencies. He received his BA from the University of Stellenbosch, his LLB from the University of Cape Town, and his LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He also spent a year at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions as the Edmond J Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics. Back to top.

Richa Mittal, Director, Agriculture & Strategic Projects
Richa Mittal is responsible for managing FLA’s strategic (special) projects globally and has been based in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2009. She joined FLA at its Washington, DC, headquarters in 2003 as part of the Code Implementation and Monitoring Program. She relocated to India in 2004 as the FLA Regional Manager for South Asia and managed FLA activities for garment and footwear supply chains in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for four years. While in India, she developed the agricultural monitoring program (ENABLE) for FLA. Her expertise are in developing tracing, monitoring and remediation programs for A-typical supply chains that involve complex upstream linkages involving farms, home-based work, artisan clusters, mines and ecosphere retreats (safaris, marine parks, ecological parks). Richa holds an M.P.H. in International Health Epidemiology from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an M.S. in Human Ecology and Nutrition from the University of Delhi. Before joining FLA, she lived in Bangladesh, conducting research in the garment sector. She became well-versed with labor and social conditions in South Asia and later managed a health program for garment workers in Bangladesh that was jointly run by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the nonprofit Michigan International Development. Back to top.