Cristina Ruiz
Cristina leads Twin's support to coffee producer organisations through a number of different projects in East Africa and Latin America.Twin delivers development through trade in partnership with business and over 30 farmer organisations representing 300,000 smallholders in 17 countries across Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Before joining Twin, Cristina managed programmes in development, risk reduction and humanitarian contexts, based both in head office in the UK and in-country in Africa, the Maghreb and Eastern Europe. She has worked in several humanitarian contexts and applied market-based programming to emergency and recovery work, both making use of local market systems to improve emergency responses and utilizing markets to lead recovery after major disasters.