Ethica Corporate Solutions was founded to establish sustainable, ethical, and reliable business models in global supply chains.
To maximize the ethical, social, and environmental performance of supply chain partners.
We owe our industry leadership to our unwavering ethical principles.
We strictly maintain absolute impartiality across all our audit and consultancy processes.
We accurately report current factory conditions and identify transparent avenues for improvement.
We know not only international standards, but also brand expectations and sectoral dynamics intimately.
We aim to build robust, continuously improving systems rather than temporary fixes.
We began our journey in social compliance and ethical audit consultancy as Ethica Corporate Solutions.
We successfully guided our 100th manufacturing partner through international social compliance audits.
We became an approved training provider and pre-audit partner for prominent global retailers.
We continue to expand as the industry's most trusted social compliance consultancy firm.
Ebru Gökbulut is one of the most established and distinguished authorities in social compliance and sustainability in Turkiye. An alumna of Kadıköy Anadolu High School, she graduated from Marmara University in Textile Engineering and Marmara University in English Language Education. Her career began in 1996 at Intertek Textile Laboratories and continues today under the banner of Ethica, the consultancy firm she founded.
In 2000, she founded the Social Compliance Audit Department at Intertek Turkiye from the ground up, directing operations across the entire EMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa) region from Istanbul. Leading a dedicated team of 22 full-time auditors, she oversaw audits for more than 80 global brands, including McDonald's, Walt Disney, Target, VF Corporation, Marks & Spencer, Next, and Zara/Inditex. Subsequently, she was appointed as the EMENA Director for WRAP. In 2007, she transitioned to Marks & Spencer's Ethical Trade Department, serving for approximately 9 years as EMENA Social Compliance Director, overseeing and guiding more than 400 manufacturing facilities across the region.
In 2016, she established Ethica. Today, she provides high-level audit, certification consultancy, and executive training across amfori BSCI, Sedex SMETA, SA8000, WRAP, Higg Index, EcoVadis, GOTS, GRS, OCS, and RCS standards. She authored 14 comprehensive Social Compliance Guidelines for the Textile and Chemical sectors in joint collaborative projects with the ILO, IHKIB, and IMMIB. She continuously maintains active partnerships with prominent national and international sustainability bodies.
Having conducted over 1,000 comprehensive audits to date, Ebru Gökbulut possesses extensive international field experience across Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India. She is an accredited SA8000 and WRAP Lead Auditor, as well as an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor.
"Every successful supply chain is built on a solid ethical foundation. We build that foundation together." — Ethica Corporate Solutions, 2017 to Present
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