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 Michael Wray worked at senior levels for over 25 years with global corporations, including Sun Microsystems, TI plc, Caterpillar Tractor Co. and United Technologies working in Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. Responsibilities were related to infrastructure development projects with extensive field work in many developing countries including Algeria, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, Japan, China, Korea, Mexico and Brazil.
Michael has been active in the Fair Trade movement since 2004, working with members of the Asia Fair Trade Forum. He has performed extensive consulting work with SME in India, Nepal, and the Philippines aimed at improving the livelihoods of individuals, families and small cooperatives, mostly in poor rural areas. He is also working to develop a NGO Community-linked Orphanage project in Nepal.
He has also consulted on Fair Trade retail projects in UK, Netherlands and USA.
In the USA he counsels to small businesses and runs regular workshops for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
 Tony Hall has been active in the Fair Trade movement since the middle of 2003, when he moved on from a career in high technology enterprise software, mainly in the Marketing and Business Development areas.
Initial work centered on the Asia Fair Trade Forum Business SCAN Program, 5 day diagnoses of Fair Trade (FT) organizations, leading to recommendations for business efficiency improvements.
In 2007/2008 eCommerce and Finance Workshops were held for the AFTF members and Tony was appointed as Adviser for the AFTF Board.
Tony has worked for VSO in Ecuador developing a new Fair Trade retailing-restaurant-museum complex in Quito. He has also run programs in East Timor with the Women Handicraft producers for the Alola Foundation and has been invited back to re-launch the program after the recent civil unrest. He has also worked in Palestine with the Holy Land Cooperative Society.
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World Fair Trade Day May 9 2009
World Fair Trade Day is a global festival of
Fair Trade with events organized worldwide, on and around the second
Saturday of May.
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