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Who We Are
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.
Staff Members
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 currently serving as the Acting Director 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.
Germaine Zhang
Germaine Zhang is Assistant Manager of ICTI's Asian office where she oversees factory audits and is responsible for reviewing audit reports with the Technical Advisory Board members, QC audits, and training and pilot projects. Miss Zhang holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and has strong industry and audit experience in both China and Canada. She previously worked for Disney as a Senior Auditor in charge of auditing, audit team management and training. Prior to that, Germaine worked at Jetta Company Ltd. as a Code of Conduct Officer.
Phone: +852-3571-9287
Email: germaine.zhang@icti-care.org
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.
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