Francesca Romana Rinaldi

Francesca Romana Rinaldi, PhD, is part of the core faculty at SDA Bocconi School of Management where she is Director of the SDA Bocconi “Monitor for Circular Fashion".
She is Author of several books, including: “Fashion Industry 2030” (Egea, 2019), "L'Impresa Moda Responsabile" (Egea, 2013; Egea, 2022), “The Responsible Fashion Company” (Greenleaf Publishing - Routledge, 2014) and the upcoming Circular Fashion Management (Egea, 2024).
She leads the course “Managing Sustainability in Fashion” at MAFED – Master in Fashion, Experience and Design Management SDA Bocconi and the course “Fashion Collections and Sustainability” at Bocconi University.
She is executive consultant for Companies and Institutions on the topics of sustainability, circularity, traceability, transparency and business model innovation.. Relevant consulting projects include: “Enhancing Transparency and Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Garment and Footwear Industry” for UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) and “Textiles Transition Pathway” Co-creation Strategy for the European Commission DG GROW.