Jordy van Honk
Global Director Agriculture Commodities - Brands, IDH
Jordy leads the IDH sector programs in cocoa, tea and coffee, and has a specific focus on engaging business on the themes of living wage and living income.
Jordy van Honk works as global director agriculture commodities at IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative. In this role, he leads the IDH sector programs in cocoa, tea and coffee, and has a specific focus on engaging business on the themes of living wage and living income. Jordy is part of the management team of IDH.
Over the past years he has been part of many leading initiatives on living wage and living income, including the Malawi Tea 2020 program (as Chair of the Steering Committee), the Dutch retail bananas commitment, the Taskforce for Coffee Living Income and living income initiatives in cocoa including the Dutch Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (DISCO) and Beyond Chocolate.
Jordy has worked for IDH for 11 years. He holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Before joining IDH in 2010, Jordy worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Government of The Netherlands in its industry and trade department.
