Sustainability Lecture Series | Sustainable Fashion for a Sustainable Future: Challenges & Opportunities

Ms. Ronna CHAO is CEO of Novel Investment Partners Limited, Chairperson of Novetex Textiles Limited, and a Director of Novelpark Investments Limited. Her responsibilities in these various capacities cover investment and portfolio management, property redevelopment, and textile manufacturing.

Ms Sofia CROCIANI founded AELIS in 2017, the first sustainable and ethical couture house. For Sofia fashion becomes the driving force to reach and inspire the change of the global system and the achievement of sustainable development an the women empowerment. Her early career in the fashion industry began in Paris, working for Dior and closely collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld.

Prof. Sihem DEKHILI is a Full Professor of Marketing at ESSCA School of Management - BETA CNRS (France) - and has extensive expertise in sustainable marketing field. Her main research interests focus on responsible consumer behavior and ethical fashion. She recently created and institute on “Ethical Fashion and Ecological Consumption”. Also, she created in 2017, with the support of the French Marketing Association, a research group on “Marketing and sustainable development”.

Stafford Lau is the Managing Director and one of the founders of Prosperity Textile (H.K) Ltd who has spent more than 25 years in textile industry. Throughout this career journey, Stafford is growing together with his company from a China domestic sub-contracted factory, to a small mill with 60sets of weaving looms and then to a mill with vertical setup in Shaoguan industrial area. And up today, Prosperity has production facility setup in Vietnam and China.

Prof. Chris LO's main research outputs are related to sustainability in operations management, social media and big data analytics, and disruptive technology adoptions to firm performance. He published in both mainstream business journals such as, Organization Sciences, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management etc., and fashion textiles-related journals, such as Coloration Technology, Textile Research Journal with the focus on the environment, human health, and sustainability.

Jeanne is a design practitioner that investigates creative innovation that interfaces design and technology. Her research focuses on intelligent textile design for fashion, interiors, rehabilitation and Design-Led STEM processes. Her work had been showcased at Milan Fashion Week A/W 2023,the Victoria & Albert Museum, and collected as part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Silk, China.

Prof. WANG Xungai held the position of an Alfred Deakin Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Future Fibres), and Director of the ARC Research Hub for Future Fibres at Deakin University in Australia. He received the Fiber Society Award for Distinguished Achievement in Fiber Science and the H&M Foundation Global Change Award in 2005 and 2017 respectively. He is Editor-in-Chief of a premier journal in the textile field, the Journal of the Textile Institute (UK).

Prof. Christina WONG's research interests are environmental management, supply chain integration, and reverse logistics. Her research papers have been published in various academic journals. She serves as an Editor of International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management and Regional Editor of International Journal of Operations and Production Management.