In order to achieve its mission, the Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury has formed an Advisory Board which, to date, is composed by:

 

María Eugenia Girón has 18 years of experience in the premium and luxury industry as an executive, investor, speaker, lecturer, professor and author.
At Loewe, the leading Spanish luxury brand, she had international responsibility. She led the acquisition (MBI) of Carrera y Carrera in 1999 and was CEO of the company for six years. In 2012, he took over as President of Le Chameau, the French brand known for its luxury rubber boots. She was a founding partner of Silvercloud, the investment fund created in 2010 to acquire companies in the premium and luxury sector. He is a member of the Advisory Board of several companies in the sector, including several leading Spanish and European companies.
She is also the promoter and executive director of the Premium and Prestige Market Observatory of IE Business School and Mastercard. In addition, he is a member of the International Board of Oceana and of the Best Sustainable Luxury Performance Award in Latin America. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of IE University, the Foundation for Diversity and "Spain Start-Up & Investors Summit", in addition to being an advisor to Ashoka.
She holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from ICAI, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.
Teaches the elective chair Premium and luxury entrepreneurship in IE, is the author of "Luxury Secrets", published in 2009, and is director and co-author of the "Dictionary of Luxury and Responsibility", published in 2012.
In 2004, she was awarded as the best female executive in Spain.

 

Dana Thomas.

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by The Penguin Press in 2007. She began her career as a writer for the Style section of The Washington Post in Washington, D.C., and from 1995 to 2008, she was the European culture and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. Most recently, she was European editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times in London and is the Paris correspondent for the Australian magazine Harper's Bazaar. Ms. Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. Taught journalism at the American University of Paris from 1996 to 1999. In 1987, he received a Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Fellowship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. Currently resides in Paris.

 

 

 

 

 

Sean Ansett is a Sustainability Executive with 20 years of experience in managing complexity, creating partnerships with multiple sakeholders and driving change as the “conscience of the company” in the apparel, electronics and food sectors.

Before founding At Stake Advisors, Sean Ansett served as Director of Corporate Responsibility at Burberry and Director of Global Partnerships at Gap Inc., where it set a new standard for corporate responsibility reporting for which it received more than 2 million positive reviews. He also served as interim CEO of Bangladesh Accord, the first supplier safety initiative in the world.

Sean was CSO of Fairphone, the first sustainable modular smartphone company to successfully go to market, raising $8 million in crowdfunding. Obtained the Momentum for Change Award of UN and the Community Award Sustaina 100 and was finalist in the 2016 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.

Sean regularly participates in panels and is a guest lecturer at leading business schools: INSEAD, London Business School, NYU, Cambridge University and Michigan University. He has contributed to and been cited in Bloomberg, Financial Times y Wall Street Journal.

Sean currently chairs the board of directors of Uniform - Liberty and Justice Clothing, is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is part of Nest, Responsible Ecosystems Services Platform -the Platform for Responsible Ecosystem Services (RESP) and the Erb Institute, Michigan University.

Sean holds an M.S. in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from California State University. Served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, is fluent in Spanish and has experience in cross-cultural teams in more than 30 countries including China, Bangladesh, India, Mexico, Turkey and Vietnam.

 

Eduardo Escobedo

Eduardo was the Executive Director of Responsible Ecosytems Sourcing Platform (RESP), a platform of luxury companies, governments and institutions working together to create sustainable economic models for the benefit of people and nature. In this role he is responsible for ensuring RESP's continued relevance, effectiveness and leadership in fulfilling its mission.

Prior to founding RESP, Eduardo held a number of positions in international organizations, governments and companies, including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), the Mexican Ministry of Economy and General Electric. Eduardo is a native of Mexico and holds a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM). He also holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva. He also holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Vienna, the University of Geneva and IESE Business School.