Paul Freundlich

President

Fair Trade Foundation

Paul Freundlich is Chair of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative; a founding Officer and Director of the Ceres Coalition; Founder and President Emeritus of Co-op America; former Editor of Communities Magazine; and a founder and celebrant of an occasional intentional community, Dance New England. He served on the Board of the International Labor Rights Fund for eighteen years, and directed projects funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Bureau of Primary Care.

Paul is author of a novel, "Deus ex Machina," (2005); "A Guide to Cooperative Alternatives," (1979); numerous articles and stories; and more than twenty-five documentary films and video essays, most of them on themes of sustainability and community.