GEN Board of Directors 2011

Name

Organization

General Affairs Office

Secretariat

Robin Taylor

Robin Taylor joined the GEN Board in 2003. He is general manager of the New Zealand government-owned ecolabel which is overseen independently by the not-for-profit NZ Ecolabelling Trust.

Robin has a background in brand supervision and marketing strategy with multinational companies. In 2007 he was elected Chair of GEN and has encouraged the streamlining, development and contemporary character of the organisation.

Dr Ning Yu

A citizen of the Republic of China, Dr. Yu is chair of the Green Purchasing Alliance (GPA) Taiwan and President of the Environment and Development Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania , USA, and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Tunghai University, Taiwan. She is the former chair of GEN.

Dr. Yu has extensive experience on pollution control R&D and technology transfers, as well as environmental management. She has led several international cooperation projects, including helping the Asian Productivity Organization to provide assistance to the Philippine government to establish its national ecolabelling program in 1999. Dr Yu has represented GEN at many international conferences, pioneered the development of Common Core Product Criteria among GEN members and acted as the lead auditor to peer review GEN members.