Christine Carey
Christine’s work links conservation and development with corporate responsibility. She specializes in voluntary environmental and social standards systems (e.g., Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), fair-trade, organic) that support sustainable resource management and improve working conditions.
Over the past few years she has led an international project examining governmental use of social and environmental voluntary standards across 10 countries with the ISEAL Alliance (London). She has worked as Advisor with the International Trade Centre (Geneva) – the UN technical cooperation agency of the WTO and UNCTAD on a partnership-based effort to enhance transparency and availability of voluntary standards and increase opportunities for more sustainable trade in developing countries.
In 2010, Christine worked with WWF International (Switzerland) evaluating sustainability impacts of eight voluntary multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Currently she is a Senior Advisor with the Green Development Initiative (GDI) developing a meta-standard and certification system to certify landscape management in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Christine also teaches on two graduate courses at the University of Geneva.
She has a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from Trent University, Ontario.
