Board of Advisors

Mr Zesiger, born in New York City, graduated cum laude from Yale University, has an M.A. from UC Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the Maastricht School of Management.

In 2000, Mr Zesiger co-founded Global Standards with Nguyen Ngoc Chau in HCMC. Along with his partner, Mr Zesiger was accredited as the first local independent monitor for the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in Vietnam.

Today, Global Standards has local audit and consulting teams in China, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, offering independent monitoring, social audits, consulting and training on CSR, capacity building and factory improvement.

Christina Ameln is an Advisor at Purple Ivy, a consultancy that helps companies to future-proof their business models. It leverages business strategy, sustainability know-how, management system, communications, and impact expertise to integrate sustainability priorities deeper into the business. 

Prior to Purple IVY, she ran her own consultancy around CSR and Sustainability working with corporates; and multilateral and non-profit organizations in Asia and Europe. At publicly-listed hygiene and forestry company SCA, she drove the company’s engagement internally and externally on CSR as CSR Director; and at Hifab International, a consultancy and project management company, Ameln worked as a CSR Specialist.

As Senior Manager, Corporate Strategies & Member Services at the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), a not-for-profit corporate membership organization, she worked at mobilizing the private sector in the fight against the three pandemics. This was led by the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the UN and President Obama's former Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Ameln has an MBA from Nottingham University and a BBA from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ameln sits on the Board of Advisors for LIN Center for Community Development. She also writes regularly on sustainability on various platforms including   www.SustainableVietnam.com and is author of the Aya & Bobby illustrated children's books on travel and discovery.

Mrs Doan is the Founder and Strategic Advisor to LIN. Prior to setting up LIN, Dana worked with NPOs in Latin America, the U.S. and Vietnam, leading research efforts to guide the design and evaluation of programs.

From 2003 to 2007, Mrs Doan worked with the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council and Education Forum, based in HCMC, as an International Trade Policy Analyst. In that role, she organized and facilitated technical assistance programs, bilateral meetings and events for officials representing the U.S. and Vietnamese governments, U.S. companies, and the international trade and aid community.

She has an M.A from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a B.A. in History and Spanish from Northwestern University.

Mrs Doan completed a Certificate in Grantmaking and Foundations at the New York University School for Continuing and Professional Studies in 2010.

Mr Mazur is a U.S. qualified attorney with 7 years of experience in Vietnam, 3 years as a strategic leader of an elite international university's public policy research project, and 3 years in a "magic circle" firm's regional project finance practice. Mr Mazur has a reputation for developing successful long-term partnerships based on a shared understanding of the objectives and limitations of investment projects into Vietnam.

Mr Eli Mazur advises project developers, private financers, and ODA providers on resource exploration, infrastructure and construction, and the production and generation of Vietnam's natural resource and energy supplies.

Professor Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin.

He has a B.A. in History from Princeton University, an M.A in History from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He practiced law with Baker & McKenzie in New York, Beijing and Hong Kong.

Professor Sidel served as litigative consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice in the largest prosecution of slavery, human trafficking and involuntary servitude since the Civil (U.S. v. Kil Soo Lee et al), and has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department on human trafficking and labor law issues.

Professor Sidel's research and writing focus on the not for profit sector and philanthropy (with a focus on Asia and the U.S.), Asian law, law and development, comparative law and human trafficking.