Scott Nova is the Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit organization that investigates working conditions in factories around the world producing goods for the US market. The WRC promotes respect for workers rights on behalf of more than 175 universities and colleges and is the only factory monitoring organization operating on a global level that accepts no funding from industry. A public interest advocate for more than twenty years, Nova is a specialist on international trade, labor rights and corporate accountability issues. He has been directly involved in negotiating the historic Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, now signed by more that 150 brands and retailers, following the tragic Rana Plaza collapse in April, 2013, that claimed 1,132 lives and injured thousands others.