Sustaining Voices Advisory Board

As SAC executive director, Razvi is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the organization. She leads the executive team and works with the board of directors to develop and implement the organization’s strategic plan.

Previously, Razvi was the vice president of membership at the SAC, a leadership role in which she focused on providing exceptional customer service, account management, member value and business development for the organization. Razvi worked with global members to increase adoption of the Higg Index and improvement of Higg scores through impact solutions.

Prior to joining the SAC, Razvi was a senior manager on the global sustainability team at Gap Inc., where she led environmental initiatives across owned and operated facilities as well as in its supply chain. She led the development of Gap’s environmental sustainability strategy and the creation, execution and achievement of ambitious enterprise goals on energy and waste at owned and operated facilities. Razvi also led the first large-scale deployment of the Higg Index across Gap’s supply chain, and has been involved in the creation, development, piloting and rollout of the Higg since its inception.

Trained as an architect, Razvi has designed and managed construction of retail stores, skyscrapers, houses, hotels and museums. She has a B.S. in architectural studies from the University of Illinois and a master of architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gillespie is the director of industry integrity for Textile Exchange, and in this role is responsible for all of Textile Exchange standards. She has led the development of the Organic Content Standard, the Recycled Claim Standard, the Global Recycled Standard, the Responsible Wool Standard and the Responsible Down Standard.

Gillespie is currently leading the work on Responsible Leather, Responsible Cashmere and the development of a credit trading system.

She has over 15 years of experience working with retail, including 10 years as a product manager at Mountain Equipment Co-op, where she converted their cotton program to organic. She was a co-founder of Continuum Textiles, a sales agency for sustainable textile supply chains, and was the principal of Agility Consulting, helping companies from all parts of the supply chain and the world to address sustainability issues in their supply chains.

Daystar serves as Cotton Incorporated's vice president and chief sustainability officer. Prior to joining the company, Dr. Daystar was the assistant director at the Center for Sustainability at Duke University, where he collaborated with the company on a wide range of research projects spanning many of the company’s divisions. Dr. Daystar holds a Ph.D. in Forest Biomaterials from N.C. State University and has established himself as a leader in cellulosic fiber sustainability. He has led research and consulting in aspects of product sustainability, biomaterials, biochemicals and bioenergy. His research has produced numerous publications, sustainability and chemical and engineering tools, and certifications for clients including the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Souchet joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2016 to work with its Global Partners, such as Google and H&M, to help drive circular economy innovation. In 2018, following the launch of the report “A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion’s Future,” Souchet moved to lead Make Fashion Circular, shaping the program to be a truly disruptive force within the industry.

Having studied in Paris and Melbourne and working internationally, he now finds himself based in the United Kingdom leading a team dedicated to redesigning the fashion industry based on circular economy principles. This new approach ensures that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, new business models increase their use and old clothes are turned into new.

Hirdaramani is a director of the Hirdaramani Group, a family-owned, diversified conglomerate whose core business is the manufacture of apparel through its factories in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia. The Group has additional interests in the leisure, retail, renewables, capital, services and philanthropy sectors.

With over 20 years experience in the apparel industry, Hirdaramani, in recent years, has taken responsibility for sustainability in the group, which became a core focus area for the Hirdaramani Group since the launch of Mihila, Asia’s first carbon-neutral Factory in 2009, covering both key environmental and social initiatives with a strong link to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Hirdaramani Group was proud to announce in 2019 that its Sri Lanka operations had been verified as net zero from greenhouse-gas emissions and is presently embarking on an extensive five-year sustainability strategy.

Hirdaramani also continues to be an avid advocate of sustainability within the wider industry and is engaged in a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives.

He has been a member of the board of SEDEX and is currently on the board of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and the council of the Social and Labor Convergence Project.

Nikhil has a BA in international relations from Tufts University in the United States and an MBA from Imperial College in the United Kingdom.

Lee is a highly respected expert in sustainability issues relating to the fashion industry, manufacturing, business and policy. His role as board member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition enables Lee to advocate for businesses to shift toward more sustainable practices.

He is also the business director of Hong Kong Non-Woven Fabric Industrial, one of the first companies to introduce closed-loop manufacturing facilities and chemical-free low-carbon manufacturing processes.

An active contributor to various multi-stakeholder initiatives, Lee is the convenor of the Fashion Industry Development Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Innovation and Sustainability; a member of the Qualifications Framework, Textiles and Clothing for the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and a voting member of the Outdoor Industry Association Sustainability Working Group in the United States.

Additionally, he is on the steering group of a number of government-funded carbon reduction projects and has been a judge for the EcoChic Design Award (now known as the Redress Design Award) for several cycles. Lee is passionate about igniting change in tomorrow’s fashion leaders.

Daystar serves as Cotton Incorporated's vice president and chief sustainability officer. Prior to joining the company, Dr. Daystar was the assistant director at the Center for Sustainability at Duke University, where he collaborated with the company on a wide range of research projects spanning many of the company’s divisions. Dr. Daystar holds a Ph.D. in Forest Biomaterials from N.C. State University and has established himself as a leader in cellulosic fiber sustainability. He has led research and consulting in aspects of product sustainability, biomaterials, biochemicals and bioenergy. His research has produced numerous publications, sustainability and chemical and engineering tools, and certifications for clients including the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Wilson is senior business development manager at NSF International, a leading U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit that delivers public health and safety-based risk management solutions while serving the interests of all stakeholders, including the public, the business community and government agencies. The Sustainability Division at NSF includes an extensive and growing body of standards and protocols for numerous products and industries and across complex supply networks, as well as testing, auditing, certification and validation services. Wilson previously was director of business value strategy and development at Textile Exchange. Prior to that he was vice president of sustainability at Quiksilver, Inc., responsible for all sustainability initiatives globally.

Gullingsrud, founder of Design for AllKind, a circular fashion design and strategy consultancy, is passionate about sustainability. In her advancement of circular fashion she has worked as sustainability director, consultant, writer and designer for companies and organizations such as the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Gap Inc., and Pratibha Syntex and alongside brands such as H&M, Eileen Fisher, Stella McCartney, Gap and Marks & Spencer. Gullingsrud has provided sustainability education to companies through the Swedish fashion and textile organization TEKO and Council of Fashion Designers of America, and currently works as an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts. Gullingsrud is the author of Fashion Fibers: Designing for Sustainability.

DuFault is the director of communications at the Pratt Institute Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator as well as digital content & brands director for natural dye supplier and production house Botanical Colors. In addition to being a sustainable fashion journalist for the past decade, Amy also co-organizes the Southeastern New England Fibershed, and with her team, is working to rebuild a regional fiber system in Southeastern New England centered around local fibers, local dyes and local manufacturing.