Sustainability in fashion starts with the supply chain: the Department of Economics is offering a webinar open to the public on supply chains, certifications and ESG strategies.

How can a complex production chain such as fashion be managed sustainably? This is the theme at the centre of the webinar “Sustainability and supply chain management in the fashion sector”, scheduled for Monday 4 May, from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., online via Microsoft Teams.

The meeting is promoted by the Department of Economics of the University of Insubria as part of the webinar series “SMEs between climate risks and sustainability pathways”, organised in collaboration with KPMG and Intesa Sanpaolo. This is the seventh event in the series, designed to address the theme of sustainable transition through concrete cases, with the aim of raising SMEs’ awareness of the opportunities and risks involved in this transformation process.

The meeting will focus on sustainability in production chains, with particular reference to the fashion sector, which is characterised by complex and highly integrated supply chains. In this context, supply chain management is one of the areas in which the challenges linked to the integration of ESG factors emerge most clearly, also in light of growing demands for transparency, traceability and control along the entire chain.

Alongside these aspects, the role of certification systems and verification processes in qualifying supply chains will be explored, highlighting how these tools can support companies in making their sustainability pathways more structured, transparent and credible. The topics will also be addressed through company testimonials from leading organisations, offering a concrete perspective on how sustainability pathways are implemented along production chains.

The webinar will be coordinated by Dr Alberto Citterio, Department of Economics.

The programme includes talks from 5 p.m. to 5.45 p.m. by Dr Davide Saredi of KPMG, Dr Tommaso Gatti of KPMG and Dr Alessandro Galletti of Gruppo Zegna. From 5.45 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., Dr Grazia Cerini of Centrocot and Dr Marino Vago of Vago S.p.A. will speak.

The Scientific Committee is composed of lecturers from the Department of Economics of the University of Insubria: Rossella Locatelli, Andrea Bellucci, Andrea Vezzulli and Alberto Citterio.

Participation is free and open to the public. 

▶ Students on the master’s degree course in Economics, Law and Corporate Finance will be awarded 3 credits subject to registration via Google Forms
▶ All those who do not fall into the categories eligible to request training credits and who attend all the seminars will receive a certificate of attendance, also subject to registration via Google Forms
▶ Recognition of training credits has been requested for members of the Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts

• For information, please write to alberto.citterio@uninsubria.it or daniela.milani@uninsubria.it.

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Speaker profiles

Grazia Cerini is General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Centro Tessile Cotoniero e Abbigliamento S.p.A. She is also Director of the European Commission Notified Body for the certification of personal protective equipment and OEKO-TEX® certification. She has extensive experience in certification, quality and safety in the textile and clothing sectors, having held positions of increasing responsibility at Centrocot. She is Chief Representative of the Shanghai representative office and Director of Centrocot UK Limited. She previously worked at Certitex and began her career in the FIAR Group. She is a member of national technical and scientific committees, including the National Technology Cluster “Made in Italy”, the UNI Textile Technical Committee and Fondazione ITS Cosmo. She also carries out training activities and is a qualified lecturer in management systems and certification.

Alessandro Galletti is Group Internal Audit Director at Gruppo Zegna.

Tommaso Gatti is Senior Manager in KPMG’s Governance Risk & Compliance LoS, with many years of experience in carrying out and coordinating projects on internal control and risk management systems for public and private companies, in national and international contexts. In particular, he has worked on projects in Risk Management, Internal Audit, Business Process Improvement and Digital Transformation. For several years, he has been involved in projects to define and implement frameworks for integrated third-party risk management, also enabled by the use of technological platforms.

Davide Saredi is Partner, Governance Risk & Compliance at KPMG and has more than 20 years of experience in managing and supervising complex assignments in Internal Audit, Risk Management and Compliance, with a strong focus on internal control systems, governance and regulatory compliance. He has developed in-depth expertise in designing and testing controls supporting financial reporting, carrying out financial, operational and compliance Internal Audit assignments, as well as Supply Chain Audits and Quality Assessment Reviews of Internal Audit functions in line with the Global Internal Audit Standards. He specialises in defining and implementing Third Party Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management and ESG models, including the design and verification of controls on non-financial reporting in line with the CSRD. He has also supported numerous organisations in the areas of Legislative Decree 231 compliance and anti-corruption, Corporate Governance assessment and the adoption of digital GRC solutions, assisting top management and control bodies in assessing the adequacy of control and risk management systems.

Marino Vago is President of Vago S.p.A. in Busto Arsizio, a company active in the textile finishing sector. He has extensive experience in the entrepreneurial and association system, having held prominent positions at local and national level. He was President of the Industrialists’ Union of the Province of Varese and Vice-President of Confindustria, with responsibility for Organisation and Association Marketing. He was President of Sistema Moda Italia, the national association representing the textile and fashion sector. Over the course of his career, he has also held governance positions in various companies and institutions, including industrial groups, financial organisations and bodies within the Confindustria system, developing expertise in industrial development, production chains and business representation.

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The webinar series is organised as part of the NODES project, funded by MUR through M4C2 funds – Investment 1.5, “Innovation Ecosystems” call, under the NRRP funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, Grant Agreement Code No. ECS00000036. The webinar series is also part of the PRIN 2022 project “Green Investments and Environmental Risks: Banks, Firms and Public Policies”, Prot. 202259EZSJ, CUP J53D23004030006, Spoke 3 “Tourism and Culture Industry”.