Just Transition to a Circular Fashion System

Webinar

February 20, 2024

1:30 - 3 pm CET

This interactive workshop will explore the barriers and solutions to mainstreaming fair and just circularity. The first part of the session invites guest speakers to share their experiences of applying circular design principles (e.g., recycling, design for durability), the structural and commercial challenges they have faced, as well as the potential social impacts of implementation. Participants will then join breakout discussions to explore how to address barriers, galvanize support for investments in circularity, and consider how collaborative, long-term partnerships can be instrumental in enabling a just transition to circularity for people and the planet.

This webinar is a side session for the 2024 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector.

Scheduled Speakers

Margot Brent, Associate Director, Transformation, BSR

Associate Director, Transformation, BSR

London

Margot leads BSR’s strategy practice helping companies develop sustainable business strategies that drive innovation and build resilience leveraging insights from BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with BSR members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot brings over 10 years’ experience in sustainability, futures thinking, design-thinking, innovation management and communications. Prior to BSR, Margot was an innovation and sustainability manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry. She has also helped design and deliver climate resilience projects for UNEP and UNDP. She has extensive experience in sustainability topics ranging from climate justice, climate resilience, circularity, supply chain, women’s empowerment, nature-based solutions, community livelihoods and social impact. She has lived and worked across Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.

She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch.

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Cliodhnagh Conlon, Director, Consumer Sectors, BSR

Director, Consumer Sectors, BSR

Paris

Cliodhnagh focuses on supply chain sustainability under BSR’s consumer sectors practice. She has more than 10 years of international business experience, spanning business development, sustainability, technology, and design.

Previously, Cliodhnagh worked as a Sustainable Agribusiness Consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2017, she completed the Origin Green Ambassador Programme, a two-year executive education master’s program developed to support the promotion and implementation of Ireland’s Origin Green, the world’s first national sustainability plan for the food and drink sector. As part of the program, she spent three secondments delivering sustainability projects for FAO, Tyson Foods, and Sodexo. She has also worked with Burberry and Alexander McQueen.

Cliodhnagh holds a first-class honors MSc. in Business Sustainability from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, a B.A. in Business and Economics from Trinity College Dublin, and a postgraduate degree in Design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California.

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