Team members

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  Rosey Hurst
  Founder and Director
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  Tess van den Oever
  Head of Quality and Technical Development
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  Rose Martin
  Commercial Manager
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  Alistair Pyle
  Principal Consultant
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  Ben Bostock
  Senior Consultant
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  Barbara Dirnberger
  Senior Consultant
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  Eshan Chan
  Senior Consultant
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  Raquel Fisch
  Senior Consultant
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  Firza Safira
  Senior Consultant
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  Daniel Murphy
  Senior Consultant
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  Jake Dutczyn
  Senior Consultant
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  Ola Dickinson
  Consultant
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  Heidi Chan
  Consultant
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  Gulus Egilmez
  Consultant
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  Manuel Silva
  Consultant
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  Josie Collins
  Project Officer
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  Kasia Myatt
  Project Officer
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  Emily Day
  Programme Consultant
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  Yeye Kieribo
  Head of Finance
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  Tahira Quresh
  Project Accountant
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  Janette Morris
  Office Manager
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  Ged de Meyer
  Marketing Manager

Rosey Hurst



Founder and Director

Rosey founded Impactt in 1997 to make what works for workers work for business. She founded Sedex and launched the Benefits for Business and Workers Programme which links improving productivity with a better deal for workers. She is passionate about re-humanising the workplace and has pioneered large-scale initiatives to remedy modern slavery. Rosey serves on the Ecovadis Technical Committee and is a member of the Responsible Investment Advisory Council at BMO-GAM. Rosey’s passion for the topic can be seen in her TEDx talk.

Tess van den Oever



Head of Quality and Technical Development

Tess joined Impactt’s consultant team in 2011. Tess has had various roles in Impactt consultant and Senior Leadership team since. Tess now focuses on optimising Impactt’s product offer, implementing a knowledge management system and impact measurement. Areas of expertise include audits, investigations, capacity building and remediation. Tess delivered work in the Middle East, Bangladesh, China, Eastern and Western Europe and Malaysia. Prior to Impactt, Tess completed a masters in Corporate Social Responsibility in London and a bachelor degree in Marketing in the Netherlands.

Rose Martin



Commercial Manager

Rose joined Impactt in November 2018 as a Senior Consultant and was promoted to Commercial Manager in 2020. In her current role as Commercial Manager, Rose is responsible for the growth of Impactt’s work in the US and China markets. Before joining Impactt, Rose spent a decade in multiple regions of China working with brands to improve social sustainability and labour issues in the supply chain. Rose speaks and writes Chinese, and has lived and worked in the UK, China, and Jordan. She holds a teaching certificate, and an MA in Chinese from SOAS, University of London.

Alistair Pyle



Principal Consultant

Alistair joined Impactt In April 2019 as a Senior Consultant and was promoted to Principal Consultant in 2020. Alistair is responsible for Impactt’s wider work within the energy sector with a particular focus on marine construction and engineering. His in-country experience stretches across China, Singapore, Qatar, and Azerbaijan where he works closely with our diagnostics team to identify systemic human rights abuses. Prior to joining Impactt, he worked at Sainsbury’s Argos where he was responsible for the human rights performance of the furniture and jewellery supply chains.

Ben Bostock



Senior Consultant

Ben joined Impactt in March 2019 as a Senior Consultant, and specialises in social audit and forced labour. Recently, he has focused specifically on recruitment fee investigation and remediation in the rubber gloves industry in Malaysia, and in construction in the Middle East. Prior to this, he worked for 5 years as a Consultant at PwC within their Sustainability and Climate Change team – working primarily in Human Rights and Modern Slavery for clients in the retail sector.

Barbara Dirnberger



Senior Consultant

Barbara joined Impactt in 2016 as a Project Officer and became a Consultant in 2018. In 2020 Barbara was promoted to Senior Consultant. She manages DFI client accounts and is an Impactt lead auditor. Applying her social research background Barbara refines our worker voice methodologies and trains worker interviewers. Before joining Impactt she researched the human rights of farm workers in the South African wine industry, gained experience working at Care International and at the Austrian Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.

Eshan Chan



Senior Consultant

Eshan joined Impactt in June 2019 and she specialises in responsible recruitment, grievance mechanisms and diagnostics with a gender lens. She has led forced labour investigations in Asia, and piloted remote training for suppliers to build capacity on responsible recruitment. Prior to this, she worked at the Ethical Trading Initiative, where she managed a global multi-stakeholder programme with the ILO-SCORE team in China, and was also part of the editorial team that developed ETI’s Base Code Guidance on Gender Equality.

Raquel Fisch



Senior Consultant

Raquel is an experienced and qualified trainer, project manager and worker interviewer with experience working in Brazil, Austria, USA and UK. She joined Impactt in August 2019 to work closely with brands on improving social sustainability, labour standards and recruitment practices through a variety of capacity building projects worldwide. Prior to Impactt, Raquel worked in internal auditing and as a manager driving the sustainability and ethical sourcing agenda for various companies in the fashion and packaging industries. She holds an MA in Business Administration and Management from Westminster University and a BA in International Relations from Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais.

Firza Safira



Senior Consultant

Firza joined Impactt in 2019 as a Senior Consultant and works closely with clients help identify and remediate human rights issues in their supply chain. Before joining Impactt, Firza led social sustainability projects at H&M, and was a sustainability consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She helped implement various labour rights and modern slavery projects including Industrial Relations, Fair Living Wage, Migrant Workers’ Recruitment Fees, Inclusive Workplace, and Grievance Mechanisms.

Daniel Murphy



Senior Consultant

Daniel joined Impactt in September 2019 as a Senior Consultant. Prior to Impactt, he worked as an independent consultant out of Bangkok providing leading expertise on forced labour in the Thai fishing sector to third-sector and government clients. Daniel brings 7 years of experience focusing on sensitive investigations and targeted research projects. He has a postgraduate degree in migration studies, and is proficient in Thai.

Jake Dutczyn



Senior Consultant

Jake joined Impactt in 2019 as a Senior Consultant with previous experience in managing supplier ethical compliance for a global retail and pharmacy company. Possessing auditing skills honed at SGS across numerous industries including; textiles, pharmaceuticals, food, agriculture, chemicals, electrical goods and diamonds. He now leads our Diagnostics department and has conducted human rights assessments in the oil and gas sector and delivered auditor training in the UAE. Certified to SA8000, ISO 9001:2015 and RJC, Jake is currently working towards his NEBOSH certificate.

Ola Dickinson



Consultant

Ola joined Impactt in 2015 as a Project Officer and was promoted to a Consultant in 2018. She works across variety of programmes within diagnostics and remediation areas including: investigations, assessments, child labour remediation and capacity building. During her time at Impactt she has spoken to hundreds of workers to understand their challenges and concerns. Prior to joining Impactt, Ola’s passion for human rights, sustainable development and ethical trade took her to the Philippines, where she spent a year volunteering for the Youth for Sustainable Development Assembly. In particular, she focused on raising awareness of sustainable practices among local farmers, and helping them to access fair trade cocoa beans supply chains. Ola has also worked as a fundraiser for Amnesty International. She holds MSc in medicinal chemistry. Ola is based in Poland.

Heidi Chan



Consultant

Heidi joined Impactt in 2017 as a Consultant and manages and supports complex projects and multi-stakeholder initiatives that develop and test new approaches to supply chain challenges, including living wages. As an experienced facilitator, she delivers our flagship Restart workshop. She joined Impactt with experience in working with civil society, public authorities and individuals on local human rights issues in northern England and strengthening youth voice in Bangladesh with United Nations Development Programme. She holds a MSc with distinction in socially inclusive development practice underpinned by a background in women’s and gender studies.

Gulus Egilmez



Consultant

Gulus joined Impactt in 2019 as a Consultant. She works closely with businesses in a wide range of sectors, with a focus on Turkey, to help them improve labour standards in their global supply chains. She is a qualified trainer and worker interviewer. Previously, Gulus worked at an emerging markets advisory firm guiding multinationals on how to manage the political and economic landscape, and supply chains in developing countries. She also worked with INGOs on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has an MSc in International Relations from the School of Oriental and African Studies and speaks English and Turkish.

Manuel Silva



Consultant

Manuel joined Impactt in early 2018 as a Consultant and is responsible for delivering varied work on diagnostics, remediation and investigations. He is also a skilled worker interviewer. Prior to joining Impactt, Manual worked worked briefly at the Wellcome Trust and spent two years working in the UK philanthropic landscape at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is heavily involved in social compliance programmes and has first-hand experience delivering assessments in the UK, Europe and Middle East. He began his career with an internship at Amnesty International in Lisbon and has an MSc in Anthropology of International Development from Brunel University.

Josie Collins



Project Officer

Josie joined Impactt in 2019 as Project Officer. Previously, she worked for four years as a Legal Adviser/Worker Interviewer for Kalayaan labour rights NGO. She brings expertise in areas of human trafficking, modern slavery and forced labour. She has extensive experience in migrant rights-led advocacy, community research design/implementation, and community engagement strategies/interventions development; from her roles at Migrant Help, Refugee Action, Refugee Council, Workers’ Educational Association, and Jamaica Diaspora UK. She holds a Human Rights MA with distinction from UCL.

Kasia Myatt



Project Officer

Kasia joined Impactt in October 2019 as a Project Officer where she provides wide-ranging project support and manage small-sized client accounts. Her main area of expertise is research, with a focus on legal research. Kasia also conducts worker interviews in both English and Polish. Prior to joining Impactt, she worked as a human rights researcher specialising in risk assessment and as a supply chain consultant for an international media provider.

Emily Day



Programme Consultant

Emily joined Impactt in 2017 as an intern. Since then her expertise have grown to include child and forced labour investigations and remediations, large scale audit programs, research and human right impact assessments. She supports the team in operational delivery and measuring the impact of projects on workers lives. Prior to joining Impactt, Emily completed a MSc in Research for International Development at SOAS that is applied to projects through statistical analysis, social research methodologies and data management.

Yeye Kieribo



Head of Finance

Yeye joined Impactt in Nov 2017. Before working at Impactt Yeye worked in a variety of industries including book publishing, Leadership & Development, a major accounting body, charity and a Pupil Referral Unit. Yeye is responsible for the accounts of Impactt’s UK company Yeye has a degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of Brighton and is a qualified accountant with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Tahira Quresh



Project Accountant

Tahira joined Impactt in March 2020 as a Project Accountant and is responsible for monitoring the progress of the project pipeline and overseeing project billing procedures. She looks after project life cycles and related project financial activities and services. Prior to joining Impactt, Tahira worked as a project accountant within the construction and engineering industries.

Janette Morris



Office Manager

Janette joined Impactt in August 2018 as Office Manager and is responsible for the efficient functioning of it’s London office through a range of administrative, financial and managerial tasks. Prior to joining Impactt, Janette worked in a variety of industries, including the military, consular services, the gas & oil industry, retail, education, and construction.

Ged de Meyer



Marketing Manager

Ged joined Impactt in October 2019 as Marketing Manager and is responsible for developing, delivering and monitoring Impactt’s strategic marketing activity, including social media, community and content management, and events. Prior to joining Impactt, he worked in various communications and social media roles over the last 5 years in the sustainability standards-setting sector.