Dr. Helen Crowley is the head of sustainable sourcing innovation at Kering. In this role, she advises and supports Kering’s portfolio of luxury brands to implement best practices in sustainability. Specifically, she focuses on developing innovative approaches for raw material sourcing and improving manufacturing processes, and she leads the implementation of animal welfare standards and the integration of biodiversity, planetary boundaries, and circular economy principles into the business. Currently, Crowley is taking a year-long sabbatical from Kering. During this time, she will be a Lui-Walton Fellow at Conservation International and will focus on developing new approaches for business to address climate and biodiversity challenges. She is on the boards of Textile Exchange, Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. She is also a senior advisor to Conservation International and the World Economic Forum.

Tim Reilly is an environmental scientist with over 30 years of experience in performing terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and coastal natural resource damage assessments (NRDA), natural resource/ecosystem valuations, and remedial oversight and restoration of habitats impacted by oil, hazardous substances, and more. He has played a key role in determining biological, physical, and chemical response strategies, ecological restoration, and remedial and damage compensation options at hundreds of contaminated sites globally. Reilly developed Quantitative Mitigation Analysis (QMA), which provides quantitative and defensible mitigation strategies for large, complex developments for any manner of resource and habitat takings, facilitating equitable and timely sustainable mitigation negotiations between project proponents and regulators alike. QMA is a published protocol and used throughout the United States and abroad. Reilly leads Stantec's Global Natural Resource Valuation Program, providing NRDA, ecosystem valuation, and natural capital accounting services.

Sissel Waage, Ph.D., has over 25 years of experience working on sustainability and environmental issues--in North America, Europe, and Africa--with the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) Africa Program, Sustainable Northwest, The Natural Step, Forest Trends, and BSR. She has edited two books on climate change and sustainable business and delivered more than 50 invited speeches and briefings, including at the U.S. Capitol Congressional Center, the Commonwealth Club, and numerous universities as well as conferences around the world. Waage is currently partnering with private-sector clients on a range of initiatives, including investments in maintaining and restoring natural systems and assessments of business risk and opportunity related to climate change, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem function.

Elisa leads BSR’s consumer sectors practice globally and oversees the BSR global membership network. She works with companies in the luxury, beauty, fashion, hospitality, retail, and food industries to better integrate sustainability into core business strategy, products, and operations.

She helps companies understand the world’s big disruptions, create resilient and inclusive business models and practices, and evolve brand strategy to integrate changing consumer expectations. Elisa also leads BSR’s Responsible Luxury Initiative and the Southeast Asia Reptile Conservation Alliance (SARCA).

Prior to joining BSR, Elisa was an account manager at CHANEL and a consultant at Accenture and Ernst & Young.

Elisa is French-American. She holds an M.B.A. in Luxury Goods Marketing and Management from Sup de Luxe, an M.A. in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris, and a B.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania.

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