About the ECA Watch Facilitator

From 1994 to 2000, Bob Thomson was the founder and Managing Director of TransFair Canada, Canadian affiliate of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), a 17 nation certification body promoting a fair trade label for coffee and other foods/commodities. Bob has a degree in Civil Engineering (U of T 1968) and an M.A. in International Affairs (Carleton 1983). He has lived and worked in Peru, the Caribbean and Canada and has extensive experience with NGO programme and project evaluations, fair trade producer support, non-profit governance, housing co-operatives and computer assisted communications for civil society. Prior to moving to Paris as Facilitator of the ECA Watch network, he was Co-ordinator of the Ottawa Food Security Council.

The ECA Watch Facilitator's office is located at:

• c/o Amis de la Terre
• 2b rue Jules Ferry
• 93100 Montreuil (Paris), France
• Telephone +33 1 48 51 18 90
• Fax +33 1 48 51 95 12
• Email: facilitator@eca-watch.org