Kate Larsen is SupplyESChange Director Responsible Sourcing and ESG Advisory and training on supply chains Environmental and Social risks and impact potential. Kate has worked in Sustainability, CSR, Ethical Trade, business human rights due diligence (HRDD), and ESG advisory for over 17 years. Kate was the first Burberry Corporate Responsibility lead Asia from 2006-12, has been a lead Ethical Sourcing and Sustainability strategy advisor to Kering, and NEXT, WhiteStuff, and other Fashion companies, Director Responsible Sourcing for the USA’s largest children’s wear retailer, and has led Fashion industry supply chain labour conditions working groups, including on investigating and remediating modern slavery, especially in Asia. Kate also worked in Human Rights Watch and led World Bank projects engaging leading retail and apparel brands (Levis, VFCorp, Primark, Tesco, TCP, M&S, AE, etc) and stakeholders (ETI, ILO, Better Work, HERproject, Awaj, etc) on Bangladesh and Asia women workers empowerment, and has undertaken numerous other consulting projects across various sectors. For an apparel tech start-up funded by Humanity United Kate led creation of standards for assessing indicators of suppliers labour/social, modern slavery risk, and environmental management maturity from public data, and led strategy and outreach to retailers ASOS, M&S, Primark, NEXT. Kate has also written for Drapers and Apparel Insider on what fashion can do about supply chain labour exploitation and modern slavery and been often quoted in VOGUE Business on Fashion supply chain labour conditions. In 2021 Kate speaks at the Drapers Sustainable Fashion Conference on emerging modern slavery risks in global supply chains, and has regular spoken on such issues for Sustainable Apparel and similar events for Innovation Forum, Ethical Corporation, and other events; Federated Hermes investment podcast on Sustainability in Fashion, and more. Due to her 11 years China experience, Kate was featured on the BBC World Service and world news a number of times in 2020-21 on forced labour of Uyghur and others in China, and what fashion and other business can do. In her China and HK time Kate interviewed Uyghur workers in Chinese when playing an active role in a collaborative investigation of conditions across multiple south China factories which many USA and European fashion brands were buying from. Kate was named a UK Top 100 corporate Modern Slavery influencer 2018. She is a Trustee for UK charity focussed on China The Rights Practise, an advisor to UK anti-slavery charity Unseen, Handshake worker helpline China and Asia providing voice for 10,000s workers, and Japanese NGO G-ASSC (Global Association for Sustainable Supply Chains) helpline for Chinese, Burmese, Vietnamese and other migrant workers in Japan and Asia at risk of modern slavery.