Elizabeth Fortin

Elizabeth Fortin is currently an Associate Solicitor at Stone King. Prior to this, they worked as a Coordinator at PolicyBristol from December 2016 to January 2018. Before that, they were a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow/Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, Law School from January 2011 to December 2016. In this role, they undertook research into multi-stakeholder initiatives to formulate sustainability standards and certification schemes. Elizabeth looked at standards relating to biofuels, and fairtrade cocoa. Many of these round tables bring together farmers, companies, non-governmental organizations, experts, governments, and inter-governmental agencies in order to certify the production and processing of the end-product through the length of the value chain. Their purpose is to develop third-party certification schemes for sustainability standards, encompassing environmental, social and economic principles and criteria through an open, transparent, and multi-stakeholder process. The research will consider the whole of the standards process, including the process of formulating and of implementing the standards.

Elizabeth Fortin attended the University of Oxford where they earned their MA in Jurisprudence. Elizabeth then went on to the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex to earn their Doctor of Philosophy in International Development. After that, they completed their MSc in Social Research Methods at the University of Warwick. Finally, they earned their Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.