The ICTI CARE Process is the ethical manufacturing program of the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI). It is led by Christian Ewert and has an operating office in Hong Kong, at ICTI CARE Foundation Asia Limited, Ltd. Its permanent secretariat is located in New York. ICTI CARE also has a European office in Brussels.
Christian Ewert
Christian Ewert is an ex-offico member of the Governance Board of the ICTI CARE Foundation as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Council of Toy Industries CARE Foundation since July 2004. The Foundation is the parent of the ICTI CARE Process, the industry’s ethical manufacturing program. In this role, he is responsible for launching and supervising the operation of this program, worldwide, beginning in China.
Prior to accepting his current position, Mr. Ewert was Chief Operating Officer of Zapf Creation, Europe's leading brand manufacturer of play, function and collector dolls and doll accessories, based in Roedental, Germany. His responsibilities included supervision of Zapf Creation’s supply chain management program, which helped to equip him for his position with ICTI.
Earlier experience included appointments at BMW in Munich and at Jacobs AG’s North Sails Lanka operation in Sri Lanka and its Mistral Sports Group in Penzberg, Germany. Mr. Ewert is a 1990 graduate of the University of Munich, where he received an MBA. He lives in Bremen with his family.
Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson is the Vice President of Asia Operations. He has worked as a consultant to the ICTI CARE Foundation Asia Ltd. since 2008 focusing on social compliance in Asian toy manufacturing facilities. Mr. Anderson has been involved with the toy industry in various capacities for over 50 years including such roles such being appointed by TIA to establish the ICTI Code of Conduct office in Hong Kong; New Business Director for Mattel Asia Pacific; and interim Technical Director Sainsbury Asia Limited.
Mr. Anderson has represented the Australian Toy Industry with Standards Australia on various committees for over 30 years and represented Australia on ISO Toy Safety committee working groups, and at Government Senate Committed hearings on Intellectual Property Theft. In 2004 he was inducted into the Australian Toy Association Hall of Fame for his distinguished service to toy industry safety programs.
Ban Lee Ying Chuen
Ms. Ban Lee is Director, Operations of the ICTI CARE Foundation Ltd., based in Hong Kong. She joined ICFAL in August 2009 following a three-year assignment with Impactt, Ltd., the ethical trading consultancy for whom she managed and grew their Guangzhou office. Prior to that, she was with Oxfam for five years as Program Officer, China and Southeast Asia, where she focused on the development of poverty and HIV/AIDS programs. She also worked as a Training Executive at the Worker Training Center.
Ban Lee has both a Masters of Philosophy in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she studied from 1992 to1998. She is also qualified as a Health and Safety Supervisor by Guangzhou City Health and Safety Bureau (2006) and as both a Safety, Health & Environmental Supervisor (Manufacturing) and a Safety & Health Supervisor (Electronics) by the Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Council (2007).
Cliff Liu
Cliff Liu is Technical Manager, ICTI CARE Foundation Asia, Ltd., based in Hong Kong. He joined ICFAL in June 2009, following nine years as a compliance auditor with Li & Fung, Addison and Warnaco, moving up from Quality Assurance Inspector to Assistant Compliance Officer, Compliance Auditor and to Senior Compliance Auditor.
Dr. Liu has earned a Ph.D. in Laws from East China University of Political Science & Laws (2009), an M.S. in Occupational Health & Safety from the University of Greenwich/Hong Kong University (2004) and a Higher Diploma in Fashion & Textile Merchandising from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2000). He also holds certificates as an SA8000 Lead Auditor, as a Hong Kong Health & Safety Supervisor (Manufacturing), as well as a certificate from the program on Laws Related To Industrial Management in the PRC (Hong Kong Management Association).
Frank Clarke
Frank Clarke is the Acting Chief Financial Officer of the ICTI CARE Foundation, having been appointed to that position by the ICF Governance Board. He also leads the ICF's Secretariat in New York. Mr. Clarke is a Senior Partner at Kreab Gavin Anderson, Inc., which is retained to provide a variety of consulting services to ICF, including provision of Mr. Clarke as Acting CFO. He has been working with the ICF since its foundation in 2004. Mr. Clarke has worked with Kreab Gavin Anderson since 1999 and, prior to that, served as an Executive Vice President of the Grey Global Group.
Queenie Chan Wing Yan
Queenie Chan Wing Yan joined ICFAL as an Assistant Training Manager in March 2010 and reports to the Director of Operations. She is responsible for developing and monitoring the Education & Training Program for factory corporate social responsibility, and actively engaging factories, NGOs, industry associations, and other relevant stakeholders, in order to build synergies for high quality and effective training projects. Queenie previously worked on CSR issues for international companies, has experience in social compliance auditing and factory improvement project management, and participated in various Social Service Programs, e.g, counseling hotlines and rehabilitation training.
Liu Jia
Lui Jia joined ICFAL in Jan 2010 as an Area Manager based in Shenzhen. He has five years of production management experience with the ESQUEL Group and more than two years productivity consultancy and audit experience at Impactt. LJ has a Bachelor Degree in Polyester Engineering. He is qualified as Health and Safety Supervisor by Guangzhou City Health and Safety Bureau (2007) and holds the Registered Qualification Certificate Certified Safety Engineer approved and authorized by State Administration of Work safety in PRC.
Rachel Kwok
Rachel joined ICFAL in Feb 2010 as a Social Compliance Supervisor and is based in Hong Kong. She has two years experience as a Compliance Officer with Marketing Store Worldwide (Asia) Limited and spent one year as a Compliance Coordinator at the Newtimes Development Limited. Rachel has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and holds certificates as an SA8000 Lead Auditor.
ICTI itself is a non-profit association incorporated in the State of New York and is headed by an Executive Board, to which report a President and three Regional Vice-Presidents. Please refer to the ICTI website for more information about ICTI.
