Ms. Mitos Urgel is the President and CEO of WEAVE Foundation (Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment) with an enterprise subsidiary Fair Trade Enterprise in Thailand. She is also the President and CEO of the World Fair Trade Organization in Asia, an alliance of over 150 Fair Trade Enterprises in Asia promoting justice in international trade.  

Mitos is passionately and actively working to advance the rights, status and dignity of refugees and underprivileged ethnic women and their children on the Thai-Myanmar border via education and economic empowerment interventions through Fair Trade for more than 20 years now

WEAVE takes women's social, economical and political empowerment into action through educational programs, advocacy and Fair Trade social enterprise.
WEAVE facilitates access and opportunities to generate safe and fair income of refugee women artisans through handicrafts development (for global market) and support to preserve time-honored artisanry and culture. WEAVE fair trade handicrafts are nature inspired collections of beautifully and lovingly handmade crafts co-created by the Karenni and other ethnic women from the refugee camps on the Thai-Burma and in Thai remote villages in Northern Thailand.