Producer of high quality and certified organic coffee. Legal representative of the Organic Producers Association of Cauca ORGANICA, in Colombia, producers and exporters of organic coffee. He has been a principal member of the CLA and CLAC CD and CLAC Strengthening Manager.

He was General Secretary of the Colombian Initiative of Small Producers of Fair Trade Solidarity and sustainable for 8 years. He has supported the work of the SPP since its inception and since 2016 in the vice presidency and since June 2018 in the Presidency of the Board of Directors of SPP Global, “considering it the right path for consumers and producers and is the model that should continue to be promoted in the local and international market. ”

Jerónimo Pruijn has a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and is originally from the Netherlands. He has lived in Mexico for nearly 30 years. He began his work with Fair Trade at the end of the 80s as a volunteer in the first Fair Trade label, Max Havelaar Holland. All his professional life has worked for organizations, networks and companies of organizations of small producers. He worked in the Union of Ejidos de la Selva, in Chiapas, Mexico from 1991 to 1994 in community development and with women’s groups. Subsequently, he was Executive Director of the coffee chain Café La Selva, of the Network Against Extreme Poverty, of Comercio Justo México, of the Mexican Coordinator of Small Producers of Fair Trade, of the Latin American and Caribbean Coordinator of Small Producers of Commerce. Just (CLAC), AGROMERCADOS and SERJUSTO. Represented CLAC in the Fairtrade International Standards Committee from 2007 to 2013. From 2009 to date, he serves as Executive Director of the organization ‘SPP Global’, an intercontinental network of organizations of small organic producers, owner of the SPP, Symbol of Small Producers, based in Mexico City and with a presence in 50 countries of producers and consumers.