Ines is the CEO of The Centre for Child Rights and Business, a global social enterprise headquartered in Hong Kong, with programmes and staff across over 30 countries. With over 15 years of expertise in supply chain sustainability, she has been at the forefront of addressing child rights, labour rights, and human rights issues in Asia and beyond.

Since 2014, Ines has been instrumental in guiding The Centre to help businesses understand and address their impact on children, especially within supply chains. She leads the organisation’s strategic direction, overseeing global operations, and engaging with major multinational companies and partners. Ines also drives the development and scaling of innovative child rights and human rights due diligence programmes across diverse industries.

Under her leadership, The Centre has grown into a recognised leader in child rights and business, working with an expanding network of international companies and partners to create lasting, positive change for children, youth and parents worldwide.

Prior to joining The Centre, Ines was the Director of Learning and Impact at ELEVATE Limited, a leading CSR learning and capacity building consultancy. She has also worked as a Director of Assessment, Capacity Building and Training at the Fair Labor Association (FLA).

In addition to her role at The Centre, Ines serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA), a multi-stakeholder platform launched in 2020 to mobilise supply chain-wide resources and support a fair, safe and formal artisanal cobalt sector. As Chair, she helps guide the FCA’s strategic direction, align stakeholders and ensure accountability to its mission. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors (APSCA), where she contributes to developing recommendations that support APSCA’s mission and objectives and represent the perspectives of all stakeholders.

Ines holds a Ph.D from the University of Fribourg’s faculty of Arts in Sociology of Religion and a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Law & Sociology of Religion from University of Fribourg.

Mark brings over 15 years of experience in sustainability and supply chain issues, working with business, investors, and not-for-profit organisations to drive improvements across environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. 

Mark joined The Centre's team as Deputy Executive Director in June 2020, supporting the delivery and development of The Centre's services, and working with partners and businesses in Europe and North America to help them improve their direct and indirect impact on children in supply chains. 

Prior to joining The Centre, Mark was Senior Vice President at the ICTI Ethical Toy Program, a leading responsible sourcing programme for the global toy, play and entertainment industries. He has also worked as Head of Communications at ethical trade service provider Sedex, and has held positions at responsible investment research firm EIRIS Vigeo. 

Mark is a graduate in Environmental Science and is a qualified Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Amy is responsible for all aspects of finance and tax for The Centre at all regions, which includes Mainland China, Hong Kong and the branch office in Myanmar. Amy is also responsible for communicating with all of our consultants in different countries in relation to banking and payments.

Before joining in The Centre, Amy worked at a professional accounting firm in the UK and China for many years. Amy has rich experience in accounting and taxation for various business industries such as consultancy, manufacturing, retail, law, entertainment, apparel brands and etc.

Riri is the Vice President of Products and Services for the Asia region at The Centre for Child Rights and Business, where she leads the implementation of more than 60 projects annually. Her work focuses on child rights risk and impact assessments, human rights due diligence, policy and procedure review and development, and capacity-building support for brands, suppliers, traders, farmers, and workers across global supply chains. 

She brings over 15 years of experience in human rights, with expertise spanning migration, child protection, human trafficking, maternal and parental rights, and social sustainability in business supply chains. Her portfolio covers countries across Asia—including Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Pakistan, Türkiye, and India—as well as Africa (Ghana and Uganda) and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea). 

Riri has worked across agriculture, manufacturing, and mining supply chains on commodities such as coffee, cocoa, palm oil, tea, natural fibres, sugarcane, garments and apparel, toys, natural stone, cotton, chilli, pepper, mung bean, and mint. 

Prior to joining The Centre, she worked with PathFinders Hong Kong and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Indonesia and Hong Kong, focusing on child protection, counter-trafficking, labour migration, and direct assistance to victims of exploitation.

Ellen leads global communications and marketing efforts at The Centre. As the head of the communications team, she plays a pivotal role in developing and overseeing strategies that empower businesses to drive positive change in supply chains for children and families. As a member of the leadership team, she contributes to The Centre's strategic planning and growth initiatives.

With nearly 15 years of experience in marketing and communications, including ten at The Centre, Ellen's work in creating impactful and convincing communications in collaboration with global team members, has helped drive efforts to engage more businesses in child rights issues and expand into new countries and sectors.

Ellen is a graduate from SOAS, University of London, and is proud to be part of an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of children and communities in global supply chains.

Ellen lives in Asia with her family. She is fluent in English, German and Mandarin.

Cecilia has over 10 years of experience within business and human rights, responsible supply chain management, business development and operations.

In 2023 she joined The Centre as Director of Services, Europe, Africa and Americas. In that role, she supports service and project delivery and collaboration with clients and partners to expand our reach and jointly contribute to positive impact on children in these regions.

Prior to joining The Centre, Cecilia was responsible for social sustainability and implementation of human rights due diligence for a company with a global presence and a broad range of product and service supply chains. She has also been consulting for multiple global companies across different industries on sustainability strategies, human rights due diligence and supply chain management. She has lived and worked abroad for many years.

Cecilia has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management, yet a red thread throughout her career and what motivates her is to drive positive outcomes for both business and the people they touch and depend upon.