Amit Gautam
Founder & CEO at TextileGenesis, GCA winner 2020
Anderson Lee
President & CEO at Pinneco Research Limited
Caroline Brown
Managing Director Closed Loop Partner
Miles Kubheka
Social entrepreneur & Chief Executive Officer at Wakanda Food Accelerator
Linda Greer
Senior Environmental Scientist Public and Environmental Affairs Beijing China
Dr. Lin Li
Director of Global Policy and Advocacy, WWF International
Dr. Jonathan Donges
Co-lead of PIK’s FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
Previous Expert Panels
2022
Betelhem Dessie
CEO, iCog Anyone Can Code
Caroline Brown
Managing Director, Closed Loop Partners
Dr. Lin Li
Director of Global Policy and Advocacy, WWF International
Malin Åkerman
Actor and environmental activist
Mirna Inés Fernández
Co-founder, Reacción Climática and Steering Committee member, Global Youth Biodiversity Network
Rachel Cernansky
Senior sustainability editor, Vogue Business
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja
Actor and social activist
Walden Lam
Co-founder & CEO, unspun
2020
Wanjira Mathai
Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation
Malin Åkerman
Actor and environmental activist
Tariq Fancy
Founder and Chairman at Rumie, and Chief Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock
Abrima Erwiah
Co-Founder and President, Studio One Eighty Nine
Betelhem Dessie
CEO of iCog ACC (Anyone Can Code) and Project Advisor of Solve IT
Burak Cakmak
Co-Founder at THEAN.co, Co-Founder at The Digital Fashion Group
Rosario Dawson
Actor and Co-Founder, Studio One Eighty Nine
Sonam K Ahuja
Actor and social activist
William McDonough
Chief Executive McDonough Innovation and Co-Founder, Fashion For Good
2019
Tariq Fancy
Founder and Chairman at Rumie, and Chief Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock
Leila Janah
Social entrepreneur, CEO and Founder Samasource and LXMI
Edwin Keh
CEO of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel
Steven Kolb
President and CEO The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Chiling Lin
Actor and sustainability influencer
Wanjira Mathai
Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation
William McDonough
Chief Executive McDonough Innovation and Co-Founder, Fashion For Good
Bandana Tewari
Contributor, The Business of Fashion
Amy Webb
Quantitative Futurist and Founder of the Future Today Institute, Professor of Strategic Foresight at the New York University Stern School of Business
2018
Bandana Tewari
Editor-at-large, Vogue India
Chiling Lin
Actor and sustainability influencer
Dame Ellen MacArthur
Founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
David Roberts
Distinguished Faculty, Singularity University
Edwin Keh
CEO of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel
Lewis Perkins
President Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
Sophia Bendz
Executive in residence at Atomico
Steven Kolb
President and CEO The Council of Fashion Designers of America
Vikram Widge
Head of Climate and Carbon Finance at World Bank Group
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Youth Director, Earth Guardians
2017
Amber Valletta
Supermodel, actor, entrepreneur and sustainability influencer
Dame Ellen MacArthur
Founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
David Roberts
Founder of Exponential Leadership, Chairman in 1Qbit Information Technologies Inc.
Ellis Rubinstein
President and CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences
Franca Sozzani
Editor in Chief of Vogue Italia
Johan L. Kuylenstierna
Executive Director for Stockholm Environment Institute
Lewis Perkins
President, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
Rebecca Earley
Professor in Sustainable Textile and Fashion
Vikram Widge
Head of Climate and Carbon Finance at the World Bank Group
2016
Amber Valletta
Supermodel, actor, entrepreneur and sustainability influencer
Ellis Rubinstein
President and CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences
Eva Kruse
CEO, Danish Fashion Institute; CEO, Copenhagen Fashion Week
Johan Rockström
Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and Professor in Environmental Science at Stockholm University
Franca Sozzani
Editor in Chief of Vogue Italia
Ma Jun
Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, China
Michael Braungart
Academic Chair “Cradle to Cradle for Innovation and Quality” at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rebecca Earley
Professor in Sustainable Textile and Fashion Design at University of the Arts
