Federica Marchionni is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Global Fashion Agenda (GFA). 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 the 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.

Trevor Sutton is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, where he leads the center’s Program on Trade and the Clean Energy Transition. His work focuses on the intersection of trade, climate, and energy policy. Trevor previously served as Research Director of the Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future Project and was a co-author of a seminar report on trade system reform. Trevor has a BA from Stanford University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Since joining Ceres in 2014, Mary Ann Ormond has led strategic engagement with a portfolio of Fortune 500 companies in the footwear and apparel, retail, and healthcare sectors, helping members embed sustainability into core business strategy, advance climate solutions, address material sourcing and supply chain impacts, protect water and natural resources, and build a just and inclusive economy. She joined Ceres from the private sector, including over a decade at Dunkin' Brands, where she helped build the company's sustainability strategy and reporting practice

María Luisa Martínez Díez is VP, Public Affairs 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. 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.

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, an international leader in recycling, recycled content, and reuse. TerraCycle operates in 18 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers, and other stakeholders to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that otherwise go to landfill or incineration. Szaky and TerraCycle also created Loop, the circular reuse platform that enables consumers to purchase products in reusable packaging. Szaky and TerraCycle have received hundreds of awards and recognition from organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Fortune Magazine and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Szaky is the author of four books, Revolution in a Bottle, Outsmart Waste, Make Garbage Great and The Future of Packaging.