Pankaj Bedi

Pankaj Bedi is the chairman of United Aryan, an apparel company that supplies major U.S. retailers like Target and Walmart. He is actively involved in advocating for the extension of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), which provides duty-free access for African products to the U.S. market. Recently, he led a delegation of Kenyan manufacturers to Washington to lobby Congress for a critical extension of this trade program, emphasizing the potential economic impact on the textile sector in Kenya if AGOA is not renewed.