Eva Gouwens, born in 1975, is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fairphone, an Amsterdam-based company dedicated to making smartphones more sustainable.
Eva worked in the management of large companies in the food industry before taking the helm of Tony’s Chocolonely in 2012, a social enterprise that works against exploitation and child labour in the cocoa supply chain. In 2017, she moved to Fairphone and took over as CEO in 2018. She has a degree in Economics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Eva brings her natural ability to inspire and empower people and transform Fairphone’s impact goals and strategy into actions. She hopes to make the world a bit more beautiful by supporting the growth of social enterprises within the Netherlands, and by inspiring an industry to make a positive change in how we care for people and the planet.
