Pins Brown is a Senior Consultant at Ergon as well as a diversity trainer and a mother. She works with multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs, trade unions and companies.

She specialises in

§  developing good practice and building capacity on labour standards for companies, trade unions and NGOs

§  understanding and co-ordinating different stakeholders

§  accessible methods of sharing learning (written and oral)

§  training and advocacy.

She has particular experience of  multi-stakeholder initiatives; retail supply chains; informal economy, agriculture, child labour and discrimination issues.

She was a project manager for the Ethical Trading Initiative for five years, developing and managing projects on labour standards in retail supply chains. Pins has also worked as Child Labour Advocacy Officer for Anti-Slavery International; Human Rights Campaigner and Researcher for The Body Shop International and an administrator at UNHCR and Plan International. She has travelled extensively for work in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Pins has a BA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University and an MA in International Law, Development and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is a member of Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International and the Howard League for Penal Reform. She is on the advisory panel of Barbed, a prison-based social enterprise run by the Howard League. She has two step-sons and a daughter.