Thomas Tochtermann, Chairman, was formerly Vice Chairman of GFA. Tochtermann has supported the organisation since 2014 and served on the Board of GFA since 2016. He contributes a wealth of industry insights, having advised international clients in the fashion, luxury and consumer segments for over three decades. He has also been building and leading McKinsey & Company’s global Fashion & Luxury Practice for many years and works directly with key industry players to improve the state of fashion. In his role, he oversees that GFA operates in a healthy manner in terms of the organisation, team, funding, strategic objectives, and initiatives that create transformative progress in the industry. || Gender: Male | Age: 64 | Joined the board in: May 2018 | Re-election has taken place | End of term: May 2026 | Member of nomination committee: Yes | Chairman of the Strategic Partner Steerco | Special Competencies: Strategy & corporate Governance, Global Network Fashion Industry, Sustainability Strategy | Other Management Positions: Member of the board of: Salling Group, momox holding GmbH (Chair), Jahr Holding, Hirmer Hospitality (chair); Other: Industrial Advisor Verdane | Does not own shares, options, warrants and similar in the foundation's subsidiaries and/or associated companies

Robert van de Kerkhof is a distinguished authority in the fiber industry with over 25 years of experience and the founder of PEPPER-i2, a Swiss based impact advisory company on sustainability. After 10 years as Chief Commercial and Sustainability Officer and Member of the Board at Lenzing AG, Robert advises companies on Sustainability and Circularity. Among his esteemed clients are Syre, an exciting start-up from Vargas Holding and H&M to decarbonize and de-waste the textile industry through polyester textile-to-textile recycling, as well as ReHubs Europe, the collaboration hub in Europe to make the textile industry circular. Robert is also non-executive director and Chairperson at HeiQ PLC, a London listed innovation company, and the President of the Austrian Fiber Institute, organizers of the global fiber congress, Dornbirn GFC. Robert’s comprehensive expertise in the international fiber industry comes from his many years of experience at various international companies and business functions. He began his career as an Aeronautical Engineer at Fokker Aircraft, and since then, he has taken up roles in TenCate, DuPont, INVISTA and Lenzing. Besides his corporate career, Robert also served as Chairman of CIRFS, the European Man-made fiber trade association, as well as Chairman of the Business Council of ReHubs Europe. Robert is married with three children. He holds a B.SC. in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA in International Management.

Thomas Klausen, Vice Chairman, has been on the Board of Directors since 2015. Klausen brings valuable insights of the fashion and textile industry and its challenges. Alongside his role at GFA, he is CEO of Danish Fashion & Textile which represents approximately 400 companies with more than 800 brands in Denmark. In addition to this, Klausen is also the Chairman of the Copenhagen Fashion Week. Previously, Klausen was president of the Tytex Group – a world-leading textiles manufacturer with facilities in Asia, North America and Europe. As Vice Chairman, he supports Tochtermann in assuring the organisation’s governance and compliance and steering the team to continue its activities to inspire, educate and mobilise the industry. || Age: 56 | Gender: Male | Joined the Board in May 2016 | Re-Election took place | Member of the nomination committee | Special Competencies: General management, production knowledge | Other management positions: Board member of: Copenhagen Fashion Week (Chairman), Lifestyle & Design Cluster (Vice Chairman), Textileforum (Chairman), VIA Design & Business College, Chr. Madsens Fond | Does not own shares, options, warrants and similar in the foundation's subsidiaries and/or associated companies.

Eva Kruse executive director and co-founder of Bee:wild - a new initiative by the renowned nature conservation organisation Re:wild (co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio). Bee:wild aims to reverse biodiversity and pollinator decline through a campaign for civil and corporate actions. A pioneer in promoting sustainability in fashion, Kruse has worked ambitiously to push this agenda globally since 2007, an effort that includes creating Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which was launched in 2009 alongside the UN Climate Change Conference COP15 in Copenhagen. In the autumn of 2013, Kruse gave a TEDx Talk on the topic “Changing the world through fashion” in which she advocated that not only companies and politicians, but also consumers, should be at the forefront of sustainability efforts. In 2016, Kruse put forward a new and ambitious strategy for Copenhagen Fashion Summit and created the overarching Global Fashion Agenda, which aims to take global leadership on creating a movement within fashion towards positive change and responsible innovation. Kruse co-founded Danish Fashion Institute along with Copenhagen Fashion Week in 2005. Not only has she put Danish fashion on the political agenda but also on the global fashion map with her work with sustainability and Copenhagen Fashion Week. The fashion week in Copenhagen is now Scandinavia’s largest fashion event and was one of the first fashion weeks in the world to arrange an open programme with fashion events for the public. After almost five years as the chief executive of the Global Fashion Agenda, Kruse stepped down in March 2021 to join as an executive of the self-styled materials science company Pangaia. She remains a board member of the Global Fashion Agenda. Since graduating as a project manager from KaosPilots, an alternative business school, Kruse has worked in the worlds of fashion and media in various capacities, including as editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Eurowoman and as a TV presenter on the Danish broadcasting networks TV2 and TV3. Kruse has received several recognitions for her work with sustainability and the Summit including being awarded the Human Rights Prize of the French embassy in 2017 by the French Ambassador in Denmark François Zimeray.|| Age: 52 | Gender: Female | Joined the Board in March 2021 | End of term: May 2024 | Not member of the nomination committee | Special Competencies: GFA history & culture, fashion, sustainability, organisation network, biodiversity, regenerative agriculture | Other Management Positions: Chair GANNI Responsibility Board | Does not own shares, options, warrants and similar in the foundation's subsidiaries and/or associated companies. || Age: 52 | Gender: Female | Joined the Board in March 2021 | Not member of the nomination committee | Special Competencies: GFA history & culture, fashion, sustainability, organisation network, biodiversity, regenerative agriculture | Other Management Positions: Chair GANNI Responsibility Board | Does not own shares, options, warrants and similar in the foundation's subsidiaries and/or associated companies.

Peder Michael Anker-Jorgensen is the Founder and Director of ORCA & Co., a strategy advisory firm that works with companies and asset owners to maximize business value and societal impact by placing environmental, social and governance factors at the heart of decision-making. Pruzan-Jorgensen was previously a member of the executive committee at BSR, where he led the organisation’s growth in EMEA as well as its work on multi-company collaboration, women’s empowerment and government and foundations. An experienced sustainability executive, he is a member of several sustainability advisory boards and works with world leading companies in multiple industries. || Age: 58 | Gender: Male | Joined the Board in May 2019 | Re-Election took place | Not member of the nomination committee | Special Competencies: Sustainability, global outlook, FMCG strategy, multi-stakeholder facilitation, global fundraising | Other management positions: Pandora Sustainability Board | Does not own shares, options, warrants and similar in the foundation's subsidiaries and/or associated companies. Pruzan-Jorgensen has worked with the fashion industry through most of his business career, in recent years mostly on how to advance women’s empowerment in global fashion supply chains. He led the formation of one of the first collaborative initiatives in the luxury industry, the then Sustainable Luxury Working Group, initially focused on exotic skins supply chains. He has supported the Copenhagen Fashion Summit since its beginning.

Kathrin Belliveau, Chief Policy Officer, The Toy Association, contributes deep consumer products knowledge across global government relations, regulatory affairs, sustainability, product quality assurance, and strategic communications. She previously served on the executive management team of Hasbro, Inc., one of the world’s largest public toy companies, as Executive Vice President & Chief Purpose Officer. During her Hasbro career of over 25 years, Belliveau was credited as a visionary and catalyst for authentic corporate responsibility and sustainability progress, including launching the first global toy recycling program and eliminating plastics from toy packaging. A passionate advocate for business ethics and responsibility, she led and advocated for the toy industry to implement rigorous toy safety, sustainability and ethical sourcing standards and to adopt a culture of continuous improvement. She has testified before US Congress on the topic of responsible toy supply chains and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Business Ethics Leaders, by New York-based think tank Ethisphere.

Shyla Raghav is the Chief Climate Officer, TIME and Co-Founder, TIME CO2. She has had a long career working on both climate change adaptation and mitigation, with a focus on international policy and natural climate solutions. Her background includes serving as Vice President of Climate Change at Conservation International, and previously held roles at the World Bank, Adaptation Fund, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She was named an InStyle BadAss woman in 2019, a Grist Top 50 Fixer, a AAAS/IfTHEN Ambassador for women in STEM, and has been featured on CNN, Vice News, and Elle Magazine.