Speakers

Convening decision-makers from brands, retailers, suppliers, policymakers, and interconnected industries, the Summit serves as the nexus for agenda-setting discussions on the most critical environmental, social, and ethical issues facing our industry and planet.

Speakers Announced

Discover the lineup of speakers for Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025, and stay tuned as we continue to unveil more in the lead-up to the Summit.

Aditi Mayer

The Artisan Archive

Aditi Mayer

Storyteller & Activist, Founder,

The Artisan Archive

Aditi Mayer is an interdisciplinary thought leader working at the nexus of social and environmental justice. As a journalist, photographer, and public speaker, her work examines inequities within global supply chains—particularly in the fashion industry—while amplifying narratives of resilience, heritage, and cultural preservation. She is the founder of The Artisan Archive, a storytelling and social impact agency weaving narratives of craft, climate, and culture.

Mayer’s advocacy began in 2014 while organizing within Los Angeles’ garment industry, inspired to mobilize for labor justice following the 2013 Rana Plaza Factory Collapse in Bangladesh. In 2020, she was awarded the National Geographic Fulbright Digital Storytelling Fellowship, during which she researched India’s farming and artisan textile industries, investigating their socio-economic and environmental dimensions. She has collaborated with institutions such as the United Nations, Fashion Revolution, and various academic and cultural organizations to advance critical conversations on equitable sustainability.

In addition to her professional endeavors, Mayer serves on the boards of the Garment Worker Center and Governance for Tomorrow, further cementing her commitment to systemic change. From features in Vogue to National Geographic, Aditi is known for marrying the worlds of art, industry, and education— all with a socially conscious slant.

Andreas Dorner

RE&UP

Andreas Dorner, MBA, has over 15 years of progressive experience in the textile industry, specializing in sustainable fibres and circular economy models. As the General Manager of RE&UP and former Senior Commercial Director at Lenzing Group, he has pioneered fibre innovations, including the first Circular WBCF in 2017. A recognized thought leader, Dorner is passionate about transforming textiles toward circularity. Outside work, he enjoys hiking, sailing, classical music, history, and traveling. Dorner is married with two daughters.

Antonella Centra

Gucci

With over 25 years of experience, Antonella Centra has leveraged her legal expertise to drive sustainable growth across global markets. Under her leadership, Gucci has met all key environmental impact reduction targets by intensifying research and innovation and further advancing its circularity goals with the 2023 launch of the Circular Hub—Italy’s first hub for circular luxury, designed to transform fashion’s production model. Her achievements also include significant progress in social responsibility, with a strong focus on gender equality.

Attila Kiss

GRUPPO FLORENCE

Gruppo Florence is redefining luxury manufacturing through sustainability, innovation, and craftsmanship. With 39 integrated workshops, the Group was set to lead the shift towards responsible sourcing, reducing carbon emissions, managing chemicals responsibly, circularity and digitizing supply chains. Permira’s investment is a key enabler to accelerate ESG initiatives, pioneering sustainable procurement, and fostering next-generation talent through the Academia program. By blending tradition with advanced technology, Gruppo Florence aspires to be the benchmark for a responsible, high-quality Made in Italy supply chain.

Bella Webb

Vogue Business

Bella Webb is the Sustainability Editor at Vogue Business and an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins. Her coverage spans from growth and just transition to supply chain transparency, regulation and regenerative agriculture. She regularly moderates panels for the British Fashion Council, European Delegation, Global Fashion Summit and Future Fabrics Expo. Prior to Vogue Business, Webb was the Junior Editor at 1Granary and freelanced for TANK, i-D and Fashion Revolution. She is currently training with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

Christina Iskov

Global Fashion Agenda

Christina Iskov is the Director of Impact at Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), where she has been for a decade, overseeing various teams and responsibilities. She leads the Impact Team, developing sustainability and impact programmes alongside thought leadership publications. Iskov holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Commercial Law from Copenhagen Business School and a Master’s degree in Design Management from the Danish Design School Kolding, where she wrote her thesis on GFA’s position in the fashion industry.

David Yayra Agbofah

The Revival

David Yayra Agbofah

Founder and Creative Lead,

The Revival

David Yayra Agbofah is a creative social entrepreneur, researcher, and the founder and creative lead of The Revival Earth Org., a pioneering initiative tackling global textile waste in Ghana. Since founding The Revival in 2018, Yayra has successfully diverted over 5 million garments from landfills, created 20+ jobs, and empowered women through The Upcycling Incubator Program, which equips female artisans with skills in textile transformation and sustainable fashion. Operating in Kantamanto, the world’s largest secondhand market, Yayra drives impact through upcycling, education, and creative storytelling. His research-driven approach explores the intersections of sustainability, circular fashion, and social impact, leading to the development of The Circularity Lab, an innovative space merging education, awareness, art, and recycling to foster systemic change in the fashion industry. Yayra collaborates with leading academic institutions, including the University of Ghana, University of the Arts London, University of Luxembourg, and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, among others, to drive research and learning initiatives. An alumnus of the Creation Africa Ghana and the What Design Can Do Accelerator, he has been globally recognized for his leadership in circular fashion and community-driven solutions. His work extends to collaborations with cultural institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and various international organizations, where he continues to challenge wasteful systems, advocate for policy change, and reimagine a more responsible and regenerative fashion future.

Diane Holdorf

WBCSD

Diane B. Holdorf is EVP for Pathways at WBCSD, leading global business efforts to drive sustainable transformation across key value chains. Since joining in 2018, she has spearheaded initiatives on food, nature, and climate, advancing decarbonization, circularity, and equity. Previously CSO at Kellogg, Holdorf has over two decades of leadership in corporate sustainability. Recognized among GreenBiz’s “25 Badass Women” shaping climate action, she serves on multiple advisory boards, shaping strategies for a nature-positive, equitable, and net-zero future.

Ebru Özküçük Güler

RE&UP

Ebru Özküçük Güler is the Chief Sustainability Officer at RE&UP Recycling Technologies where she leads the development of transformative sustainable strategies. She drives circularity, resource efficiency, and impact reduction initiatives. Previously, as ISKO’s Head of Sustainability, Güler spearheaded many sustainable material innovations and achieved significant global milestones. With expertise in carbon management, ESG systems adoption and sustainability regulations, she takes a strategic approach to environmental challenges. Güler holds sustainability credentials from MIT, Harvard Business School, and Berkeley School of Law.

Eileen Fisher

EILEEN FISHER

Eileen Fisher is the visionary Founder of EILEEN FISHER, Inc., renowned for its simple, timeless apparel. Since 1984, she has championed an original concept: a system of shapes that work together to help women get dressed easily—a hallmark of her brand today. A sustainability trailblazer, Fisher established the company's first Social Consciousness role over 25 years ago. In 2009, she launched the Renew take-back program, initiating a circular manufacturing model. Recognized for her efforts, Fisher's accolades include the 2022 CNMI Sustainable Fashion Pioneer Award, Forbes 50 Over 50 Visionary List (2021), and the 2019 CFDA Positive Change Award.

Federica Marchionni

Global Fashion Agenda

Federica Marchionni is the Chief Executive Officer at Global Fashion Agenda. Founded in Denmark, GFA is a non-profit organisation with the ultimate vision to create a net positive fashion industry for the people and the planet across entire eco-system. Before joining GFA, Marchionni attained leadership roles in Europe, USA, and China. During the e-commerce expansion, Marchionni took a role as International CEO of Secoo, a Chinese e-commerce retailer in China. Prior to this, Marchionni was CEO and Board Director at Lands’ End and President of Dolce&Gabbana Inc., based in America. Before moving to the States, Marchionni worked as SVP at Ferrari HQ in Italy. Her career began in the early stage of the telecommunication industry, working for global players such as Samsung, Philips, and Ericsson. She is a guest speaker at high-caliber conferences and top academic institutions including Harvard University and Stanford University, Financial Times, Fortune and COP. Marchionni graduated from La Sapienza University with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a thesis in the mobility business.

Florence Bulté

Chalhoub Group

Florence Bulté

Chief Sustainability Officer,

Chalhoub Group

Florence Bulté is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Chalhoub Group. In her current role, she is responsible for fostering a culture of Business Ethics and Integrity for the Group by developing and sharing the code of ethics, creating training programs for employees as well as monitoring and auditing the ethics compliance framework. She also drives transformational change for people in the company, promoting sustainability through advocacy and partnerships and engaging employees to give back to the community. Bulté has been working in the luxury business for 19 years in Australia, Singapore and in the Middle East. She was VP of Business Development for The Wellness Group in Singapore, developing markets for beauty products in the Middle East and India. She then joined Chalhoub Group in 2004, overseeing the “Art de vivre” and Beauty retail business in UAE and Qatar. She was later appointed as GM for the Group “Art de Vivre” retail business, managing the development of the boutiques network in UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Egypt. She graduated from EM Normandy Business School, Strathclyde University and INSEAD. Bulté is the Secretary of the Global Compact UAE network, Member of Middle-East Fashion Council Board and Member of Pearl Initiative Integration Board. She has also been nominated amongst the 15 ESG leaders in the region by Business Chief.

Janet Mensink

SLCP

Janet Mensink holds more than 25 years of experience in sustainable supply chains, including sustainability consultancy and leadership roles in international development and non-profit organizations. She has served on several boards and councils of multi-stakeholder initiatives. As CEO of SLCP, she is currently responsible for overseeing SLCP’s strategic direction and execution.

Jasmin Malik Chua

Sourcing Journal

Jasmin Malik Chua is the sourcing and labor editor at Sourcing Journal, where she writes about the apparel and footwear industry through the lens of sustainability and human rights. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Business of Fashion, Vogue Business, Women's Wear Daily, Refinery29, Nylon, Vox, and others. Chua received an M.S. in biomedical journalism from New York University and a B.S. in animal biology from the National University of Singapore.

Jessika Roswall

Commissioner For Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy

Jessika Roswall started her mandate as Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy on December 1st 2024. Prior to her nomination for the post of Commissioner she was Sweden's minister for EU affairs from October 2022 to September 2024, during which Sweden held the EU presidency. Between 2010 and 2022 she served as a member of the Swedish Parliament, holding the position of second vice-president of its EU affairs committee from 2019 to 2022. Born in Sweden 1972, Roswall holds a law degree from Uppsala University. After graduating in 2002, she worked as a lawyer from 2002 to 2010.

Kalpona Akter

Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS)

Kalpona Akter

Founder and Executive Director,

Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS)

As the founder and executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS), Kalpona Akter campaigns for worker safety, fair wages and the right to labour unions. She has been a key player in urging Western brands to sign on to the Bangladesh Safety Accord following the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, and her US Congress testimony helped frame legislation against slave-labour conditions for clothing. She also President of Bangladesh Garments & Industrial Workers Federation- BGIWF and well reputed national trade union center. She began working at garment factories in her native Bangladesh aged 12, and since 2000 has devoted herself to trade unions and activism for textile and garment workers in the country. Akter has been instrumental in engaging stakeholders, from UN Agencies to fast-fashion brands like Inditex and H&M, to demand respect for garment workers. Along with Human Rights Watch, she conducts investigations and analysis. Akter also helps to ensure worker groups’ involvement in the European Union’s Sustainability Compact, designed to improve labour standards and worker safety in Bangladesh. In 2016 she was awarded the Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism.

Katrin Ley

Fashion for Good

Katrin Ley is the Managing Director of Fashion for Good where she drives the transition of the industry by harnessing the power of innovation, practical action & collaboration. She has more than 25 years of relevant industry experience in fashion, investments and consulting. Joining Fashion for Good in 2017 from Pymwymic, the community of European wealth holders who invest for impact. Prior to that, Ley was Managing Director with the adidas Group and a Principal with Boston Consulting Group.

Krishna Manda

Lenzing Group

Krishna Manda has worked for 15 years with various stakeholders in the value chain. He is passionate about embedding sustainability in core business functions to nurture culture change anchored in values. He is responsible for sustainability and ESG strategy, targets, governance, incentives, and strategic engagements with stakeholders and policymakers to orchestrate systemic change in the industry. Manda has a Ph.D. in Sustainability and has worked and lived in five countries. He currently lives in Austria with his wife and daughter, who are a continuous source of inspiration.

Lucianne Tonti

The Guardian

Lucianne Tonti is the Fashion Editor of The Saturday Paper, the Sustainability Editor at large for Elle Australia and a regular Contributor to The Guardian. Her first book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in 2022, her next book, Good Witch Hunting, will be published by Summit Books in 2026.

María Luisa Martínez Díez

Global Fashion Agenda

María Luisa Martínez Díez is Public Affairs Director at Global Fashion Agenda. She is responsible for strengthening, developing, and executing GFA’s Policy Engagement Strategy. Her responsibilities are to ensure strategic engagement with relevant stakeholders and develop partnerships with key organisations. She also leads the partnership with the Policy Hub-Circularity for Apparel and Footwear. Martínez Díez is also a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition´s Strategic Council on Stakeholder Engagement. Martínez Díez joined Global Fashion Agenda as Senior Public Affairs Manager in September 2019. She holds a Master’s degree in EU politics and law from Sciences Po Paris and brings over 10 years of experience in Public Affairs first in Paris. Then in Brussels where she worked at namely the European Commission, the Regional Office of Madrid and the Brussels-based consultancy EURALIA where she was leading the agri-consumers department working in the fields of circular economy and sustainability in the supply chains including the fashion and food industries.

Muchaneta ten Napel

Shape Innovate

Muchaneta ten Napel is the founder and CEO of Shape Innovate. Ten Napel works at the intersection of fashion innovation and policy. She is a member of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Board at EIT Culture & Creativity, funded by the EU. She is also on the Advisory Board for the Munich Fashion Award (MFA), which aims to connect emerging fashion designers with scalable and replicable sustainability technologies. She served as a creative expert on UNFCCC Global Innovation Projects. In academia, she is a lecturer at the London College of Fashion, UAL. Underscoring her commitment to sustainable practices, she has collaborated with the Royal College of Art and the UKRI Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre. Additionally, she is an international consultant for the International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.

Pascal Brun

Zalando

Pascal Brun is VP Sustainability and D&I at Zalando. He is responsible for driving the company’s strong commitment in the areas of Sustainability and D&I, pivotal for transforming both Zalando and the wider fashion industry. In his quest to achieve positive impact across the value chain, Brun is currently also part of the Board of Directors of Cascale, IFC, and Circ. Before joining Zalando in September 2023 and relocating to Berlin, Brun worked at H&M where his experience spanned across different continents and a variety of execution and strategic management roles over the last 16 years, focusing on Sustainability and Supply Chain Management.

Rachel Kolbe Semhoun

Kering

Rachel Kolbe Semhoun joined Kering in February 2024 as Head of Sustainable Sourcing and Nature initiatives. In this role, she is in charge of developing sustainable supply chains for the Group’s Houses, and most specifically materials produced from regenerative agriculture. Semhoun also oversees the Group’s nature initiatives, which include deploying Kering’s strategies for biodiversity, water, and ecosystems.

Sarah Kent

The Business of Fashion

Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is considered one of the industry's leading journalists on climate and labour. In 2020, she created and launched impact tracker The BoF Sustainability Index. Previously, Kent covered oil companies and energy markets at The Wall Street Journal. She has a Bachelors in History from the University of Oxford.

Tana Dai

Erdos Cashmere Group

As an enterprise born in grassland, sustainability is at heart of Erdos Cashmere Group. Tana Dai keeps sustainability at the forefront of the group’s strategic planning. She is one of the promoters of the establishment of the group’s sustainability strategy ERDOS WAY in 2018. With the guidance of ERDOS WAY, she’s leading the group to promote and implement the concept of ‘responsible cashmere’ across the whole industrial chain. To further advance the sustainable actions at the begging of the supply chain, Dai led the set-up of the Erdos Eco Ranch, where the group invests in research to develop stainable and responsible cashmere production approaches.

Tokunboh Ishmael

Alitheia Capital

Tokunboh Ishmael is a global voice for creating wealth and impact by unlocking the potential of businesses that provide essential goods and services that address the accessibility, affordability, and inclusion needs of underserved markets to drive superior performance and shared prosperity. She is co-founder and Managing Director of Alitheia Capital, a female-led impact investing private equity firm, a Yale World Fellow, and a member of the inaugural cohort of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship. Ishmael was a Dragon Panelist on the popular Dragons Den Nigeria TV show and currently sits on a number of corporate boards. As a dynamic speaker she shares her over two decades of knowledge on topics including Private Equity and Venture Capital in Africa; ESG and Impacting Investing; Gender Lens Investing; and Diversity and Inclusion.