Harriet Lamb CBE (born 3 June 1961)[1] became CEO of WRAP[2] - a Climate Action NGO - in March 2023.
In September 2012 she became chief executive officer of the global standards, certification and producer development organisation, Fairtrade International.
[3] Lamb was born in England, lived in India as a child and then grew up and was educated in the UK, taking a first degree in political science at Cambridge University and an MPhil at the Sussex Institute of Development Studies.
[4] She has lived over six years in India including time working with poor landless labourers and with a cooperative of low-caste "untouchable" farmers selling grapes.
In her book "Fighting The Banana Wars", Harriet Lamb describes how "As we sat there and she showed me pictures of her baby, rage bubbled up inside me because the companies knew of the dangers of this chemical but they ignored them.