Doug Cahn

Fashion & Apparel Studies

Phone: (302) 831-8714

Email: dcahn@udel.edu

Office: Alison Hall Addition

• Corporate responsibility and public policy executive with 30 years experience; teaches graduate-level courses at UD.
• Focuses on responsible sourcing, i.e. how companies' purchasing practices/supply chains impact factory workers.  Also knowledgeable about effective ways for workers to express grievances.
  
• Spent 15 years as vice president of human rights programs at Reebok International.  Cahn led the implementation of Reebok's corporate commitment to international human rights.  Work included development of a child-labor-free soccer ball factory in Pakistan, human rights training programs, worker communication systems, and assessment tools in more than a dozen countries. 
• Co-founder of Fair Factories Clearinghouse, a nonprofit initiative of global retail companies, consumer brands and retail trade associations creating a system for managing and sharing information about workplace conditions.
• Sits on Board of Directors of Verité, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to humanizing the global workplace.

Web Site:
http://www.thecahngroup.com

Title:
Supplemental Faculty, Fashion & Apparel Studies

Keywords:
corporate social responsibility, fashion, supply chains, sweatshops