Caroline Taco is the executive director of International Cotton Advisory Committee. So far she has been business development manager. She joined ICAC in 2001 and is its longest-serving member. She will continue to also serve as business development manager. Taco has attended every ICAC plenary meeting since 2001 and has extensive experience, including the preparation of budgets, managing the flow of publications and committee documents.

ICAC provides public infrastructure that enables improvement through industry action. ICAC brings together governments and the private sector from producing, consuming and trading countries representing all sectors of the value chain. ICAC has contributed concretely to the lives of people in the cotton industry by facilitating cotton-friendly government policies, providing information for decision-making and by developing and disseminating technology. World cotton yields are higher, earnings are greater, and demand is stronger because of the work that the ICAC has been doing.

Formed in 1939, ICAC is an association of cotton producing, consuming and trading countries. It acts as a catalyst for change by helping member countries maintain a healthy world cotton economy, provides transparency to the world cotton market by serving as a clearinghouse for technical information on cotton production, and serves as a forum for discussing cotton issues of international significance.