Amanda Berlan is an Associate Professor in Responsible Business at the University of Leicester. She is a Social Anthropologist by training, and her broad interest is in the field of sustainable agriculture, with a particular focus on cocoa and the chocolate industry. Her research focuses on business ethics, sustainability, cocoa production and chocolate, child labor, fairtrade and food certification, supply chains, and global food systems. She has extensive experience in fieldwork with cocoa communities in Ghana, India and the Dominican Republic, and has worked extensively with corporations, NGOs, governments and the United Nations.

Amanda received a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Modern Languages.