Alice Tepper Marlin

Who is Alice Tepper Marlin?

Alice Tepper Marlin serves as President and CEO of Social Accountability International, a standard-setting organization for improving workplaces and communities headquartered in New York City. She has held this position since 1997, upon the founding of SAI. SAI provides substantial capacity building services for its SA8000 standard, which is designed by a multi-stakeholder Advisory Board to assure decent workplaces and excellent human resource management worldwide. SA8000 is based on United Nations and ILO Conventions and Declarations, and on the ISO management systems. SAI contracts with Social Accountability Accreditation Services to license qualified organizations to verify compliance with the SA8000 Standard.

Alice Tepper Marlin earned her bachelors degree in Economics in 1966 from Wellesley College, and studied at the NYU Graduate School of Business Administration. Early in her career she served as a Securities Analyst and Labor Economist at Burnham and Company, and as the editor of an international tax journal at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in the Netherlands. She designed and managed the first social investment portfolio management service, in 1968.