DON’T MISS THIS EVENT!
PREVENTING ANOTHER RANA PLAZA:
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS PANEL
Monday June 2nd at 19:15, AMPHI B, INSEAD Fontainebleau Campus, Cocktail reception
to follow
It’s been a little over a year since the tragic Rana
Plaza fire which killed over 1100 workers in a garment factory in Bangladesh.
Since then, many major brands with operations in Bangladesh responded to the
tragedy by strengthening their supply chain systems. What steps have brands
taken to ensure the sustainability of their supply chains and safety of their
workers? Learn from experts in the field about their experience working with
and for major brands (Gap, Walmart, Decathlon, luxury brands, etc.) in creating
a healthier environment for their workers.
A must attend event for anyone interested in retail,
luxury, consumer goods as well as CSR and sustainability. We are honored to
have the following expert speakers from around the globe.
MODERATOR
The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics
and Social Responsibility
PANEL:
Sean
Ansett Dhruv Saxena
Founder, At Stake Advisors INSEAD MBA'14J, Ex-Co-founder Bangladesh Procurement Operations and zone
manager textile procurement manager-North India for Decathlon
Sujeet
Sennik Tara Norton
Sean Ansett and Sujeet Sennik will be
available for individual meetings in the afternoon of June 2nd, to book
a time slot with them, please, contact Sabrine Monségur, Coordinator INSEAD
Social Entrepreneurship Initiative,
Sabrine.monsegur@insead.edu
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
N. CRAIG SMITH
Professor N. Craig Smith is the INSEAD Chair in Ethics and Social
Responsibility at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He was previously on the faculties of
London Business School, Georgetown University, and Harvard Business School.
His current research projects examine stakeholder theory and stakeholder
value, ethical consumerism and sustainable consumption, strategic drivers of
corporate social responsibility, deception in marketing, marketing ethics.
His recent publications appear in Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of
Consumer Psychology, Journal
of Marketing, Journal of
Public Policy & Marketing, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Sujeet Sennik was born in Ireland and raised in Canada. He studied at
the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne and started life as a
designer at Balenciaga, Paris. His career stretches from Dior Haute Couture to
Wal-Mart. He has been the owner and creative director of Carbon Rain Inc. and
through this company, has designed collections that were sold from
Bloomingdales to Bergdorfs and has developed product for Zadig and Voltaire to
Dries Van Noten.
The Bangladesh tragedies changed his perspective on the fashion
industries’ responsibilities towards their global supply chain and since then
he has been outspoken in the fight for garment workers’ rights through his
writing and a documentary.
He now spends his time helping NGO’s and clothing companies who are
providing solutions to improve the health and welfare of fashions global
workforce. He believes that change can come, not only for the Bangladeshi
garment worker, but also for the rest of the workers who provide cheap labour
for the most successful retail brands in the world. He hopes that the words,
“Living Wage,” will become fashionable in the near future.
Sean Ansett is a senior sustainability professional with over 15 years’ experience.
Sean provides strategic advice to corporations, social enterprise start-ups, UN
agencies and non-profit organisations on ethical trade, human rights and
environmental sustainability globally through his company At Stake Advisors
Ltd.
Additionally, he was Executive Director of the Bangladesh Safety Accord
and is Chief Sustainability Officer at Fairphone, Acting Board Chair of
Liberty&Justice Clothing, Senior Associate University of Cambridge
Programme for Sustainability Leadership and an Ethical Corporation Editorial
Board Member.
Sean was the Director of Corporate Responsibility at Burberry in London.
Previously, Sean was the Director of Global Partnerships at Gap Inc. where he
led Gap Inc.’s social responsibility and stakeholder engagement strategy
related to labor, environmental and human rights issues. He was the chief
architect behind the company’s stakeholder engagement strategy significantly
enhanced the company’s reputation.
He has served on several global multi-stakeholder initiatives including
the Advisory Board of Social Accountability International, the Global Reporting
Initiative’s G3 expert committee, the Ethical Trading Initiative, a founding
member of the MFA Forum and UNCTAD’s committee for integrating CSR indicators
in financial reporting.
Sean is a regular speaker and writer. He has contributed and is quoted
in Bloomberg, Economist, Guardian, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Sean is a returned United States Peace Corps and World Food Program
volunteer and has a Masters degree in Sustainability Leadership, University of
Cambridge, a Master’s of Science degree in Business Administration.
Drawing on more than ten
years of experience, Tara works with BSR’s global members across sectors to
help them evolve and improve their strategies, policies and practices to enable
sustainable supply chains. In this capacity, Tara is also the Director of BSR's
Center for Sustainable Procurement, and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Initiative.
Prior to BSR, Tara’s
experience includes directing supply chain issues at 2degrees, and most
notably, running Sedex, the world's largest not-for-profit sustainable supply
chain membership organization and database, where she contributed to Sedex's
growth to its position today as a well-respected resource for supply chain
sustainability. Tara also worked in sustainable procurement at BAA in London,
was project manager at the World Trade Center Association in Los Angeles, and
was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kherson, Ukraine.
Tara has an M.B.A. from
London Business School and a B.A. with honors in International Studies and
French from Northwestern University. She is a dual citizen of the United States
and the United Kingdom, has lived in five countries, and speaks fluent French.
Follow Tara on Twitter:
@tnnw1, where she tweets about sustainable supply chains and sustainable
lifestyles.
DHRUV
SAXENA
Dhruv Saxena, graduated
from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (India) and the École
nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (France). Over the last
six years he worked within the textile universe of Decathlon handling multiple
portfolios in Asia and Europe. Within the industrial division of the company,
he co-founded the textile procurement office of Bangladesh in 2010; an office
generating a turnover in excess of Euro 45 million per year. He also developed
the North Indian textile procurement zone for Decathlon and oversaw end to end
supply chain and production operations for the zone. Over his career he has
monitored 40+ social audits and over a 100+ corrective action plans in small
and large scale factories.
He was also responsible
for the development a 1000 worker+ factory in Bangladesh which resulted from a
tie up of Decathlon with a local conglomerate. He was an active member of
various committees that over saw responsible production initiatives in South
Asia. He holds guest lecturers every year at NIFT and continues to advice
organizations on sustainability related topics.
