Sonia Cordera

Deputy Director, Food Crops and Ingredients, IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative 

Sonia Cordera is Deputy Director at IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative, where she is responsible for the Sector Initiatives program of the Food Crops and Ingredients business unit. Her role includes the coordination of a team of professionals responsible for the aquaculture, flowers and plants, fruit and vegetables, juice, nuts and spices sectors and for the IDH living wage approach. She represents IDH in the Boards of these Initiatives with the aim of steering the industry towards the uptake of sustainable social and environmental practices. Prior to joining IDH, Sonia worked at SIM Supply Chain as data analyst, and contributed to the revision of the Ahold Delhaize list of accepted social standards in 2014. Deeply interested in international politics and economics, Sonia holds a PhD in History of International Relations from Florence University and a Master of Science in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University.