26 sessions
Feb 3rd
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Opening keynote speeches and plenary – Lessons from COVID-19: dialogue and accountability
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of garment sector value chains with devastating impacts on workers. This opening session will explore the role of social...
HNA
Hoang Ngoc Anh
Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS)
Acting General Secretary
KZA
Khaing Zar Aung
Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)
President
SB
Sharan Burrow
ITUC-CSI
Secretary-General
MF
Maria Flachsbarth
Germany
Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation and Development
AJ
Allan Jorgensen
OECD
Head of Responsible Business Conduct Centre
MK
Masamichi Kono
OECD
Deputy Secretary General
MPM
Marissa Pagnani McGowan
PVH
Chief Sustainability Officer
DR
Dan Rees
Better Work
Director
MT
Madelaine Tuininga
EU
Head of Unit, Directorate General of Trade
Feb 3rd
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Partner-led session - Scaling responsible purchasing practices through...
Partners: amfori, Better Buying Institute, Fair Wear Foundation, Ethical Trading Initiative, Partnership for Sustainable Textiles
A key lesson from the COVID-19 crisis...
MA
Miran Ali
BGMEA
Director
EA
Evelyn Astor
International Trade Union Confederation
Economic and Social Policy Advisor
MD
Marsha Dickson
Better Buying Institute
President and Co-Founder
SK
Stephan Künz
Blutsgeschwister GmbH
CEO
DL
Delman Lee
TAL Apparel Limited
Vice Chairman
SL
Stéphanie Luong
amfori
Vice President - Public Affairs
KR
Kathrin Raabe
ALDI SOUTH Group
Senior Manager
Feb 3rd
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Monitoring the uptake and impact of due diligence
This session will provide the opportunity to consider challenges and ways forward in monitoring implementation of the due diligence guidance, drawing from the OECD...
AE
Andreas Edele
GIZ
Senior Project Manager
TH
Tamar Hoek
Solidaridad
Senior Policy Advisor
BK
Benjamin Katz
OECD
Policy Analyst
AM
Andrew Martin
Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Vice President: Membership & Stakeholder Engagement
SM
Silvia Mera
GoodWeave International
Director, Apparel Program
FW
Felicitas Weber
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
KnowTheChain Project Director
Feb 3rd
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Partner-led session - Getting to Remedy: Negotiating Grievance Mechanisms
Partner: ACT
Processes to enable remedy are a core aspect of OECD due diligence guidance. Effective dispute resolution mechanisms are a win-win for workers and...
KZA
Khaing Zar Aung
Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)
President
CH
Christina Hajagos-Clausen
IndustriALL Global Union
Director, Textile and Garment Industry
CL
Christopher Land-Kazlauskas
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Senior Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining Specialist
FPÖ
Fulya Pınar Özcan
Öz İplik İş Sendikası
International Secretary
DU
Derya Ural
H&M
Social and Environmental Program Manager
AV
Andrei Vasiliev
BESTSELLER
Social Impact Manager
Feb 3rd
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Decarbonising the garment and footwear sector
OECD and UN Climate Change
This session will hear from climate experts and businesses collaborating on a sector-wide roadmap to decarbonisation, exploring its...
AB
Abhishek Bansal
Arvind Limited
Head of Sustainability
CB
Claire Bergkamp
Textile Exchange
Chief Operating Officer
ML
Morten Lehmann
Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)
Chief Sustainability Officer
AM
Andrew Martin
Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Vice President: Membership & Stakeholder Engagement
LP
Laila Petrie
2050
CEO
NT
Nigel Topping
UNFCCC COP26
High Level Climate Action Champion, UK
SV
Stephanie Venuti
OECD
Environment Lead, Centre for Responsible Business Conduct
EVA
Eva Von Alvensleben
The Fashion Pact
Executive Director and Secretary General
SW
Sophie Wilson
COP26 Climate Champions
Sector lead for fashion, retail, fast-moving consumer goods and health
LX
Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu
UNFCCC
Sectors Engagement Lead
Feb 3rd
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Partner-led session - Reshaping the textile sector with focus on...
Partners: World Wide Fund and UN Environment Programme
This session will showcase examples of actions already implemented to enhance the textile sector’s...
HNA
Hoang Ngoc Anh
Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS)
Acting General Secretary
BH
Bettina Heller
UNEP
Programme Officer
AM
Alexis Morgan
WWF
Global Water Stewardship Lead and Interim Apparel & Textiles Lead
MS
Marijke Schöttmer
Tchibo GmbH
Manager Environmental Protection
SW
Sarah Wade
Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)
Strategic Programs Manager
Feb 3rd
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Upstream due diligence
This session will take stock of emerging and existing digital tools and approaches to increase transparency on upstream risks linked to key garment commodities, such as...
JB
James Barsimantov
SupplyShift
COO
GC
Grant Cochrane
Oritain
CEO
BF
Brian Finnegan
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Global Worker Rights Coordinator
EF
Emily Franklin
Fashion for Good
Innovation Associate
PJ
Patricia Jurewicz
Responsible Sourcing Network
Founder & CEO
GM
Gediminas Mikutis
Haelixa
Chief Technology Officer
AM
Amol Mishra
CottonConnect
Global Commercial Director
AM
Amy Morgan
Altana AI
Head of Trade Compliance
LR
Laura Rubbo
The Walt Disney Company
Executive Director, Global Public Policy
FS
Filippo Sebastio
ELEVATE
Senior Analyst
BV
Ben Vanpeperstraete
Freedom Fund
Garment Sector Advisor
DV
Daniel Viederman
Working Capital Innovation Fund
Managing Director
Feb 4th
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Plenary – Mandatory due diligence legislation design: perspectives from the Garment and Footwear...
An increasing number of governments are developing legislation making social and environmental supply chain due diligence mandatory. The development of such...
BB
Barbara Bijelic
OECD
Legal Expert Responsible Business Conduct
SC
Som Chamnan
Cambodia, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Under-Secretary of State
MC
Matthijs Crietee
International Apparel Federation (IAF)
Secretary General
CH
Christina Hajagos-Clausen
IndustriALL Global Union
Director, Textile and Garment Industry
AK
Aruna Kashyap
Human Rights Watch
Senior Counsel
ML
Maija Laurila
EU
DG Justice Head of Unit
MMC
María Morell Camacho
Inditex
Human Rights Expert, Social Sustainability
Feb 4th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Partner-led session - Lessons of a pandemic: what is needed to support...
Partner: Clean Clothes Campaign
As the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the livelihoods of millions, social protection systems in garment-producing countries are unable...
KA
Kalpona Akter
Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS)
Executive Director
JH
Jos Huber
retired, formerly Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands
Labour Rights Expert
ZK
Zahid Khemtio
Labour and Human Resource Department Government of Sindh
Additional Secretary / Chairman Minimum Wages Board
AP
André Picard
International Labour Office
Chief Technical Adviser, Head of Actuarial Services Unit, Social Protection Department
AR
Adil Rehman
ASOS
Senior Ethical Trade Manager
ES
Ewa Synowiec
DG Trade – European Commission
Director Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, Asia, Trade and Sustainable Development, Green Deal
IZ
Ineke Zeldenrust
Clean Clothes Campaign
International Coordinator
Feb 4th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
SME-tailored due diligence
The session will present findings from an OECD paper on SME due diligence (launched today for consultation) and a multi-stakeholder panel will present SME due diligence...
JDV
Julia Del Valle
OECD
Policy Analyst
PH
Peter Hollenstein
ROTAUF
Managing Director
SAN
Sohail Ali Naqvi
WWF-Pakistan
Senior Manager, Head Freshwater
SR
Stephan Raes
OECD
Policy Advisor
PR
Pamela Ravasio
Shirahime
Managing Director
KT
Kenichi Tomiyoshi
Japan Textile Federation
Executive Vice president
BVS
Bruno Van Steenberghe
KALANI-home
Managing Director and Founder
Feb 4th
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Partner-led session - Data for Due Diligence: the data���s already out there...
Partners: Open Apparel Registry and Clean Clothes Campaign
This session will discuss which data formats are the best to use in sharing data for the purpose of...
NG
Natalie Grillon
Open Apparel Registry
Executive Director
JH
Jack Hardinges
Open Data Institute
Programme Lead
PR
Paul Roeland
Clean Clothes Campaign
transparency coordinator
MRS
Martua Raja Siregar
FSB Garteks
Treasurer
AS
Agata Smeets
Gap Inc
Director - Global Sustainability
JT
Jill Tucker
Laudes Foundation
Head of Labour Rights Programme
Feb 4th
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Alignment of due diligence initiatives – taking stock of pilot findings and reflecting on...
In 2018 the OECD launched a pilot to assess the alignment of industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives in the garment and footwear sector with the OECD Guidance. With...
JJ
Juergen Janssen
Partnership for Sustainable Textiles c/o GIZ
Head of Secretariat
DL
Dorothy Lovell
OECD
Policy Analyst
MS
Martin Schäfer
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Senior Policy Officer
CS
Charlotte Scheltus
Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER)
Team Leader, Dutch Agreement Sustainable Garment & Textiles
LW
Lauren Wessel
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Policy Officer RBC
JW
Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
SOMO and OECD Watch
Senior Researcher
Feb 4th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual - Forum Sessions
Due Diligence in the Public Procurement of Garment & Textiles
The OECD report “Integrating Responsible Business Conduct in Public Procurement” finds that many public buyers face challenges in integrating RBC objectives in...
JÄ
Jenny Ählström
The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management
Senior Advisor
DC
Daria Cibrario
Public Services International (PSI)
Local and Regional Government Officer
RH
Rosey Hurst
Impactt
Director
PM
Paulo Magina
OECD
Deputy Head of Division - IPP
CR
Christophe Ramont
City of Ghent
North South civil servant
MS
Mauro Scalia
EURATEX
Director for Sustainable Businesses
IV
Ilan Vuddamalay
Laudes Foundation
Senior Programme Manager
Feb 4th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual - Parallel sessions
Responsible garment supply chains - a focus on the LAC region / Cadenas de suministro responsables...
This session will provide an opportunity to have a dynamic discussion on current RBC issues and practices within the region. The new Spanish language version of...
EA
Eloisa Artuso
Fashion Revolution Brasil
Education Director
FB
Froukje Boele
OECD
Manager, Responsible Business Conduct in Latin America and the Caribbean
CH
Catalina Hernandez
Procolombia
Gerencia de Sistema Moda
EL
Edmundo Lima
ABVTEX - Brazilian Fashion Retailers Association
Executive Director
CAPM
Carlos Alberto Peña Moreno
C.I HERMECO
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