Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is responsible for fiduciary and programmatic guidance and oversight to ensure Electronics Watch achieves its mission and purpose and operates legally, ethically, and soundly. The Board approves the annual budget and seeks to ensure adequate financial resources to advance the Electronics Watch mission. It establishes broad organisational and financial policies and strategic goals and priorities. Trustees are unremunerated, and only reimbursed for expenses incurred.

The Board currently consists of 16 members who represent public buyers, experts in human rights, labour rights, trade union rights, environmental rights, occupational health & safety, and global supply chains, and representatives of free, independent and democratic trade unions, as well as other types of independent civil society organisations that represent workers or advocate for worker rights and are located in the regions of production of electronics or other categories of public expenditure. We have made some changes to the board composition during 2025 (see below Nominations Policy for details of this).

Board Nominations Policy

Nadia De Leon - Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD), the Philippines

Nadia is the current Director of the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD), a pioneer workplace safety group in the Philippines established in the late 1980s. She has two decades of experience in labor rights advocacy and organizing, with a strong focus on occupational safety and health (OSH) rights and movement building since 2012. As part of her work in IOHSAD, Nadia has worked among electronics workers, assisting them in building and consolidating OSH committees and OSH victims' groups in workplaces. She also serves as the Coordinator of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV), a network of grassroots organizations in more than 20 countries and territories across Asia.

Richard Ellis - Monash University, Australia

Richard has 25 years experience working in technology, commercial and procurement. After starting in the technical area of Australia's largest telecommunications company, Richard then moved into technology procurement, managing teams that procure some of Australia's largest and most complex network and IT systems. Richard is currently working at Monash University Australia overseeing Strategic Procurment's Strategy and Governance function - which includes managing the university's modern slavery program.

Anibel Ferus-Comelo, University of California*, United States

Anibel Ferus-Comelo directs the community-engaged Labor Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). She teaches courses that focus on work, employment and labour jointly offered through the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Center for Labor Research and Education. The multi-organizational collaborative initiatives that she develops prioritize race, class, caste, and gender equity through collective organizing and public policy. Having lived and worked in three continents, she brings a multilingual, transnational analytical lens to her scholarship on supply chains, migration and development. She has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, and is an experienced educator, trainer and facilitator.

David Foust – Independent labour rights expert, Mexico

Former Coordinator of CEREAL, a centre dedicated to promote and defend worker rights in the electronic industry in Mexico. He was also CEREAL's international liaison and, before that, he was a volunteer for the Centre, helping with workshops with workers, translations and public relations. He was a member of Good Electronics' steering committee for three years. David has a PhD in Sociology, he is a professor and researcher at ITESO, a university settled in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Pauline Göthberg - Swedish Regions, Sweden

Pauline has over ten years of experience in public administration and is the national coordina­tor for the Swedish Regions work on sustainable public procurement. She has also worked at the OECD as a policy analyst on the project on Leveraging responsible business con­duct through public procurement. She holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Amanda Hawes - Expert on Electronics Industry Accountability for Workplace Toxics, United States

Amanda Hawes has been an advocate for safe jobs and healthy families for more than 40 years. Co-founder of SCCOSH (Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health) in 1977, and Past President of the Board of Worksafe (a California based occupational Safety and Health advocacy organization), Amanda's focus has been the health impacts on workers and their offspring caused by chemical exposure in the High tech/electronics manufacturing industry, both in the US and in the many countries to which the industry has expanded. While fighting for health protective exposure standards, effective controls to minimize exposures and long-standing efforts to phase out of reproductive toxicants, she has also held electronics companies accountable in court when their failures to inform and to protect their own workers have caused cancers and other chronic diseases in workers and/or devastating birth defects in their offspring. She has successfully litigated many cases for electronics workers, helping them and their families to recover compensation for their illnesses caused by their work. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.

Esty Marcu - University of Sydney, Australia

Esty Marcu is the Director of the Modern Slavery Unit at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she is leading the University's strategic response to the Modern Slavery Act and enabling academic excellence on business and human rights. She currently lectures at the University of Sydney Business School on creating shared value, business and human rights, and improving ESG performance. Prior to her role in the higher education sector, Esty spent over 10 years working with both federal and state government departments in Australia on complex public policy issues such as migration policy, refugee settlement, international development, health policy and strategic governance.  Esty is also the Co-founder and Director of the anti-slavery non-profit Project Girl Code, a tech-based organisation providing digital literacy and coding skills to survivors of trafficking and slavery in Cambodia.

Cristian Martin – The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Cristian joins Electronics Watch with over 20 years' experience in public procurement. His career has included various roles for the NHS, Commonwealth Secretariat, a public procurement consortium and a number of senior procurement roles in the UK higher education sector. He is currently Director of Procurement for the London School of Economics and Political Science. At present he is focused on raising the standard of procurement whilst meeting the ever expanding challenges of responsible procurement in a world that is ever more digital through proper category planning and maximising the use of technology. Cristian is passionate about responsible procurement and the role of public procurement for the betterment of society. He holds an MSc in strategic procurement management and is MCIPS chartered. As a highly experienced public procurement expert, Cristian aims to support the work of electronics watch with converting complex theory and concepts into practical steps for public buyers to follow that is both commercial for their institution and compliant with public procurement rules.

Michael McLaughlin - Advanced Procurement for Universities & Colleges, UK

Michael McLaughlin has 18 years' experience of working in procurement roles in both the private and public sectors. He spent nine years working in international manufacturing environments, in electronics and then automotive, before moving to the education sector.  He is currently leading the Information Services Procurement Category at APUC, one of the founding members of Electronics Watch. Michael aims to achieve best value when creating framework agreements on behalf of the education sector in Scotland. He is an advocate of collaboration, sustainable supply chains and circular procurement.

Kate Murray - Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Kate Murray is currently Head of Procurement at Edinburgh Napier University. She has a decade of public procurement experience in the higher education sector. Since 2017, she has been co-convener for the EAUC Sustainable Procurement Topic Support Network – a network which brings together those in the UK further and higher education sector who have a professional interest in sustainable procurement. She has for several years served as the Scottish institutional representative on the UK Higher Education Procurement Association's Responsible Procurement Group. She holds an MSc in International Development with a focus on international trade and workers' rights in global supply chains. Before pivoting towards public procurement, she spent 5 years at the European Parliament in Brussels as a senior policy advisor to an MEP specialising in international trade and human rights.

Peter Nohrstedt - Adda, Sweden

Peter is Sustainability Manager at Adda central purchasing body, where he holds operational responsibility for the group's sustainability initiatives and leads the sustainability and follow-up department. Peter has over 20 years of experience in sustainable procurement across various organizations. Since 2015, he has been with SKL Kommentus/Adda, and prior to that, he was responsible for developing the national environmental criteria database under the Swedish Environmental Management Council. Internationally, Peter has participated in the EU's expert group on green procurement, served as a member of the EU's expert group on public procurement for six years, and contributed to the UN's advisory committee on sustainable procurement. Peter holds a Master's degree in Biology with a specialization in systems ecology from Stockholm University.

Rochelle Porras - Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), the Philippines

Rochelle is a labour rights defender and development worker who has been actively supporting initiatives of electronics workers in the Philippines. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Communication and earned her diploma in Urban and Regional Planning. Rochelle has 15 years of experience in non-profit organizations, including her years with the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), and most recently, as the Regional Coordinator (based in Asia) of the GoodElectronics Network.

Shigeru Tanaka - Pacific Asia Resource Centre (PARC), Japan

Shigeru is an activist/researcher who has monitored mining sites in the Philippines and Ecuador both of which are deeply connected to critical minerals for the energy transition. Shigeru conducted his Master's study in City and Regional Planning at Cornell University after graduating from Waseda University. He has over 12 years of experience in Japanese civil society connecting the atrocities taking place in the Global South with consumption behaviors of the Global North.

Víctor Torrents Castells - Associació Catalana de Municipis (ACM), Spain

Víctor is an industrial engineer with in-depth knowledge of the business environment and public administration. Throughout his career, he has specialized in leading technical teams, service sales, and customer service, developing projects in key sectors such as public procurement, the Spanish energy system, administrative simplification policies, industrial policy, and the environment. He currently serves as Head of the Contract Monitoring Office at the Central Purchasing Body for Local Entities in Catalonia, where he leads the strategic management and oversight of public contracts, contributing to the efficiency, transparency, and continuous improvement of the local public sector.

Joanna Unterschütz - Polish Institute for Human Rights and Business (PIHRB), Poland

Joanna has authored publications in the fields of national and European labour law and criminal labour law including human trafficking. Her recent research centres on collective rights of workers in new forms of employment. She has also participated in several international research projects, focused on the protection of fundamental rights and labour law. At the beginning of her professional career, Joanna worked for trade unions. Currently, concentrating on her academic career she is a member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts Network (TTUR), a network of lawyers from various European countries, which focuses on the study of European labour law and social rights. The TTUR network is also an advisory body to the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. Joanna also co-operates with the Polish Institute for Human Rights and Business as Associated Senior Expert.

Lennon Ying-Da Wang - Serve the People Association (SPA), Taiwan

Lennon Wong is the director of the Department of policies on migrant workers at the Serve the People Association (SPA), Taiwan. He has been tirelessly advocating for the rights of both local and migrant workers in Taiwan. His efforts aim to combat discrimination, harassment, violence, inequality, and retaliation in workplaces across the nation. Lennon Wong collaborates closely with NGOs and local authorities to offer essential support, shelters, and training programs for workers.

*for identification purposes only