Michiko Shima

Michiko Shima is Acting Senior Vice President, Agriculture at FLA. She has more than two decades of experience working with small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large corporations on human rights and environmental diligence, ESG/reputational risk strategies, and management systems. She has advised and supported companies to achieve their objectives with external supply chain partners.

Shima is a proven leader in strengthening and improving labor rights and working conditions. Prior to joining FLA, she managed ESG due diligence and performance reviews of complicated financial investments, ranging from microfinance to financial derivatives, at the World Bank Group. She also conducted a modern slavery assessment of a global shoemaker and developed an analytical tool at a consulting company to estimate the origins of forced labor victims in destination countries based on publicly available data.

Shima is trained as the lead auditor in several schemes including Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Chain of Custody; Bonsucro Chain of Custody; International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 on environmental management systems; and Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001 (current ISO 45001). She has an MBA in international business and finance from George Washington University and a master’s degree in environmental sciences and policy from the Johns Hopkins University.