Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, has been named Ultimate Eco Queen at Cosmopolitan’s Ultimate Women of the Year Awards.
The honour recognises the contributions that Lamb has made to the Fairtrade movement.
She said: “I am thrilled to accept this award on behalf of the millions of women in developing countries and the many Cosmo readers and women in this country who helped put Fairtrade on shop shelves.
“Earlier this year I met a mother in Malawi who grows tea sold to Britain. She is paid so little for her crop on the conventional market that she has to choose between eating a main meal every day or keeping her own children in school. These human stories motivate me to ensure that Fairtrade continues to grow so that we can work with millions more producers in developing countries.”
The ceremony took place at Banqueting House, in London. Celebrities including the Sugarbabes and Kim Cattrall attended the event.
Lamb has been executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation since 2001 and has lead it through a period of staggering growth, which has seen estimated sales of Fairtrade products in the UK increase from £30 million in her first year to more than £493m in 2007.
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