Overall the 2012 symposium was organised by the Fairness network (researchers and PhD students working on Fair
Trade); the GeoFairTrade project; and Liverpool Hope Business School. An
organisation committee gathers representatives of all three institutions. Benjamim Buybrechts Fairness FR Bob Doherty Liverpool Hope Christine Gent Pakka Fanny Lange Max Havelaar France Michaela Mager Equisol Pierre Ott ECO Cert Alastair Smith Fairness UK The academic component of the conference had been organised by a Operational Scientific Commitee of both more senior and leading junior academics working on the subject of fair trade. The committee includes: Matthew Anderson Research Fair Trade Lucy Bartlett University of Oxford Benjamim Buybrects l'Université de Liège Aurélie Carimentrand IHEAL Mantiaba Coulibaly University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Iain Davies University of Bath Eleanor Fisher Swansea University Jos Van Hal Wagninger Anne Le Mare University of Durham Benoît Petitprêtre Alastair Smith Cardiff University/Fairness UK Didier Tagbata University of Valencia Isabelle Vagneron CIRAD Matthias Zick Varul University of Exeter The scholars who were in charge of organising individual themes had mainly been members of the Fairness network and constituted the operational scientific committee. The members of this committee were responsible for receiving the abstracts related to their theme, organising the reviewing process and constituting the workshops on the basis of this process. An Honorary Scientific Committee consisted of professors and lecturers who are recognised Fair Trade experts who attended the conference and reviewed papers submitted for presentation. |

