Ivanka Mamic is an experienced senior sustainability professional with over 18 years of experience in the sector. Mamic joined Target in 2015, where she leads global teams working on social and environmental matters relating to Target’s manufacturing supply chain for all product categories. Prior to this, she worked for the International Labour Organization, providing technical leadership and advice on the ILO’s CSR-related activities, including the ILO/IFC Better Work programme. Mamic’s work on CSR has been published in several books, as well as in leading journals and she has undertaken collaborative research on CSR with leading academics from Columbia University, Harvard University, and Sydney University and others.

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Kate Logan is former outreach director at the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), a nonprofit environmental organization based in Beijing that promotes information disclosure and public participation as means of strengthening environmental governance mechanisms, reducing emissions, and improving environmental quality. Her main work there focused on outreach surrounding IPE’s green supply chain initiative to integrate transparency and stakeholder participation into existing supply chain management systems. Prior to joining IPE, she received a Princeton -in -Asia fellowship to serve as a research fellow on the China Environmental Law & and Governance Project at the Beijing office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she researched the implementation of environmental public interest litigation in China.

Leslie Johnston joined C&A Foundation as its first Executive Director in late 2013 and brings over 20 years of management experience across multiple sectors, including smallholder agribusiness, entrepreneurship, and corporate philanthropy. At C&A Foundation, Johnston led the development of the foundation’s first global vision, mission, and strategy, anchored on making fashion a force for good. She oversees a team of over 50 people in nine countries and a grant budget of over EU€50 million, working to improve lives and livelihoods across the foundation’s five signature programs. Prior to this role, she managed the Swiss-based Argidius and COFRA Foundations, committed to helping enterprising people to help themselves. She was also the Deputy Director for TechnoServe in West and Southern Africa and has worked for McKinsey & Company in Washington, DC and South Africa.

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Jeremy is in charge of serving and expanding BSR’s member base in Asia and integrating the work there into our global approach.

BSR’s global thought leadership, informed through field work and local implementations, enables us to work with member companies to create innovative sustainable solutions and globalize the sustainability dialogue.   

Jeremy has extensive experience in supply chain management, business integration, external communications, government relations and compliance operations. Prior to joining BSR in 2006, he spent more than 10 years on equipment sourcing, footwear production and corporate responsibility for Nike, Inc. He also worked in China for five years as the North Asia Regional Compliance Director, covering sustainability issues in Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

Jeremy holds an M.S. in Economic Development from the Patterson School of Diplomacy, and an M.S. in International Commerce from the University of Kentucky.

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