Our team
Tamsin Lejeune
Managing Director
Tamsin has over 10 years of experience in the ethical fashion sector. She holds a masters in International Development with a focus upon fashion and fair trade, and is the author of “Can Fashion be Fair?” published in 2004 and is trained in fashion design and fashion business management. She founded and is strategic director for fair trade fashion label juste., developing a pioneering supply chain model for the production of designer womenswear to fair trade criteria. Tamsin launched and co-ordinated the first year of the Fashioning an Ethical Industry project on behalf of Labour Behind the Label.
Tamsin has led the initiation and growth of the Ethical Fashion Forum, from the first meeting around a table in 2004 to an international network of thousands, and regularly speaks, writes, runs training programmes and mentors on fashion and ethics.
She has secured funding from DfID, the LDA, UnLtd, the International Trade Centre, and a portfolio of corporate sponsorship and support for a range of groundbreaking projects from the RE:Fashion Awards to the INNOVATION and New Entrepreneurs projects, Fashion +, and the EFF role with Africa Inspires.
Tamsin is responsible for founding the Ethical Fashion Consultancy, EFF’s sister organsation which unites the worlds foremost experts on fashion and sustainability. She has led Ethical Fashion Consultancy projects with clients ranging from the BBC to the ITC and the Commonwealth Foundation.
Tamsin has led the development of the EFF’s Ethical Policy Framework, which through consultation with key stakeholders brings together existing standards available for fashion and textiles products. This tool forms the basis for the work of the EFF with business members.
Latifa Begum
Finance and Office Manager
Latifa holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Greenwich, and oversees all finance-related issues within the company. She should be contacted with any office and financial queries relating to EFF or EFC.
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