Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
Looking beyond the top 5 global suppliers, WRAP's Leadership will explore opportunities and roadblocks around social compliance in emerging sourcing destinations including Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Thailand, and Jordan.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- About opportunities in up and coming global sourcing destinations.
- To identify common challenges to social compliance in Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Thailand, and Jordan.
- About the regional and local realities that can better position sourcing destinations in the global supply chain.
Speakers:
Avedis H. Seferian, Esq.
President and CEO
Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production
Avedis H. Seferian joined WRAP in 2004 and became its President and CEO in 2012. He has extensive knowledge of social responsibility issues within the highly complex worldwide supply chains of the apparel, textile and footwear sectors. A recognized expert in the area of social compliance and responsible sourcing, Mr. Seferian was named by Assent Compliance as one of the Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders in 2020. He often speaks on topics in this field at different forums around the world and has contributed to many leading trade publications and news outlets. Mr. Seferian is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the Chairman of the Board of Directors (and a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board) of the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors (APSCA), and sits on the Impartiality Committees of several audit organizations; he also served on the Board of Advisors of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.
AAFA Host:
Nate Herman
Executive Vice President
AAFA
Nate Herman took on the role of Executive Vice President in 2025, following more than 20 years at the association and from the position of SVP of Policy. In addition to steering the association’s strategic plan, Nate oversees AAFA’s Policy department, managing the association’s lobbying, policy, and regulatory affairs activities. Nate leads AAFA’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, formulating and implementing CSR policy and representing AAFA and the industry on CSR issues before governments, NGOs, and other key stakeholders. In addition, Nate develops all apparel and footwear industry data and statistics as AAFA's resident economist. Prior to joining AAFA, Nate worked for six years at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration assisting U.S. firms in entering the global market. Nate spent the final two years as the Commerce Department's industry analyst for the footwear and travel goods industries. Nate received a Masters of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh in 1994 and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics from the University of Delaware in 1992.
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