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Idar Nouti is a supply chain consultant with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in diverse industries including manufacturing, utility, oil & gas, aviation, government, and infrastructure. Idar possesses extensive expertise in optimising supply chain efficiency, sustainability, and innovation. His skill sets include strategic sourcing, procurement management, contract management, supplier relationship management, and supply chain risk management. Complementing his industry experience, Idar holds an EMBA in Supply Chain Management and several professional designations, further enhancing his qualifications to deliver exceptional results.

Marie-Agnes Parmentier is Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Montréal.

Dan Patterson, the chief executive officer at Silverleafe Global Ag Tech LLC, has developed an advanced agricultural technology platform that creates a digital geospatial footprint for verifying machine-harvested cotton in the textile supply chain. 

Germantown, Tennessee-based Silverleafe Global, also known as Silverleafe Cotton Tracing, claims to have developed the first digitally verifiable, machine-harvested cotton using patented technology integrated into John Deere machinery. This innovation captures live geospatial data to verify cotton origins. Tested in various regions, including the US, Uzbekistan, and Australia, limited US implementation began in 2024.

Its Digital Ag Track & Trace (DATT) solution provides an end-to-end verifiable chain of custody for every cotton batch, ensuring transparency from farm to textile mill. It prioritises ethical sourcing by working only with partners who adhere to strict standards, ensuring that all Silverleafe-certified products are free from forced and child labour.

A seasoned business executive and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience spanning multiple industries, including investment management, real estate, defense, healthcare, agriculture, and logistics, Dan’s leadership roles have involved structuring complex business transactions, developing innovative technology solutions, and overseeing operations to drive value and growth. He has founded and managed successful enterprises across diverse sectors and has a strong track record of creating partnerships, optimising operations, and leading strategic initiatives.

Alice Payne is an Associate Professor in Fashion in the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology. Her research centres on environmental and social sustainability concerns throughout textile and apparel industry supply chains. Alice has examined perspectives on sustainability along the cotton value chain, the cultural and material flows of post-consumer textile waste, and design processes of mass-market product developers, independent fashion designers, and social entrepreneurs. She is co-editor of the book Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion (Bloomsbury 2019).

Alida Payson is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in JOMEC. Her research interests are in everyday life, second-hand economies, and material culture. More widely, she is interested in the cultural politics of migration, gender, race, and disability, and in visual, creative and participatory research methods.

Payson have been working to build a network of second-hand studies researchers and practitioners. You can find more about our projects and activities on the Secondhand Cultures blog, available here: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcultures/

She recently finished a three-year project, Charity shop country: conviviality and survival in austerity Britain, funded by the Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship, and exploring how charity shops matter as sites of everyday living together and getting by in an austerity economy. 

Marcio Porcher is a Senior Director of Product Development working for an American footwear company based in China. His background includes design, product management, and brand building. Marcio believes that data analytics is critical in brand building, leading to more accurate collections and properly built footwear. He helped grow several brands during his career with his market-oriented approach to product creation. In addition to his role, he writes daily on LinkedIn, sharing knowledge about footwear creation and brand building.

Ken Pucker is an operator, advisor, investor, and educator with an abiding focus on sustainability and ESG. He serves at Berkshire Partners as an Advisory Director, focusing on the consumer and retail sectors and as a founding member of the firm’s Responsible Investment Committee. In addition, Ken serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Tufts Fletcher School. Ken is a published author in periodicals such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor and the Harvard Business Review. Ken also is an investor and board member at Rag & Bone and Nexite and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth School, Green City Force, and The High Meadows Institute.

Pucker spent most of his professional career working at Timberland serving as COO from 2000 to 2007. After joining the company in 1992, Ken served in multiple roles over a fifteen-year period. During his tenure with the company, Timberland grew by tenfold to over $1.6b in sales. During this period, the company was recognized for nine consecutive years as one of Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies, as a Forbes magazine's Platinum Investment and as a top ten ethical company according to Business Ethics magazine.

Salman Raghib, Managing Director, Anas Tanning Company, is an expert in export & global leather trade, driving sustainable leather production. A graduate in commerce with specialisation in foreign trade from PSG College of Arts and Science, he brings both academic knowledge and practical expertise to the leather and export industries. Anas Tanning Company is a trusted supplier of premium leather to leading international brands and is recognised as an exporter of high-quality leather bags.

Rubal Rathi is research scholar at BML Munjal University.

With more than 20 years of experience in the apparel and textile industry, Amina Razvi, former CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), has a proven track record of driving sustainability and collective action at scale, leveraging her expertise in sustainability strategy, strategic leadership, and establishing strategic partnerships.

Amina's passion for collaboration stems from her background in architecture, including a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and experience designing and managing construction projects from skyscrapers to museum complexes. Amina's mission is to transform the industry into a force for good by measuring and addressing social and environmental impact along the entire value chain.