BRC Fashion Sustainability Summit 2026

Naomi leads on packaging and waste including pEPR, WEEE Regulations and DRS.

Lou leads on environmental and ethical sourcing policy and the BRC's Plan for Nature programme.

Joined H&M in 2022 as Regional Head of Public Affairs & Sustainability for North Europe. Marcus is a leader with an outside-in perspective skilled in public affairs, sustainability, PR, and media management. Marcus' career is built from a variety of roles and industries within communications and sustainability such as Chief of staff at the Swedish government, Communications & Marketing Director at Teracom, and Nordics Corporate and Government Affairs Lead at Mondelez International.

Nathan Hathaway is Industry Alignment Lead at Worldly. He works with large European consumer-goods brands across fashion, footwear, homeware & beyond helping them build real visibility into their supply chains and engage suppliers on the environmental and social impact inside them. Hundreds of conversations with brand teams give him real insight into where supply chain transparency works and where it stalls.

Vivian Frost is an Account Director at Worldly, where she looks after European enterprise accounts. She advises some of the world's most influential brands on supplier engagement programs, helping them turn environmental, social and risk data into practical action with the factories and suppliers behind their products. She has over a decade of experience managing complex sustainability challenges for her clients.

David Roman currently leads on textile reuse and sustainability for the British Heart Foundation, the UK's largest charity retailer. He is the founder and chair of TRUST, the UK's ethical reuse standard, and brings together charities, retailers, regulators and international partners to strengthen transparency and standards across the sector. A Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and a Chartered Environmentalist, David specialises in the ethical export of used clothing, reuse and waste sector integration, and the development of practical solutions that deliver both environmental and social impact.

Since 2024, George has worked as the Just Transitions Advisor at Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), an alliance of trade unions, NGOs and companies, working together to advance human rights in global supply chains. We work collaboratively with our members operating in sectors that are both highly vulnerable to climate change and significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts. These include apparel and textiles, where our members include many well-known high-street and online fashion brands.

Prior to ETI, I worked in international development NGOs, most recently as Impact and Gender Advisor at Practical Action, an INGO working across Africa, Latin America and South Asia on climate resilience, renewable energy, and regenerative agriculture. A

Mark Sumner is the Head of WRAP’s Textiles Programme and works with his team to reduce the carbon, water and waste footprints of the clothing and textiles industry. By employing a systems approach, embedding circular thinking, and applying innovation theory Mark is leading the development of strategic solutions that decouple growth and environmental harm for the UK Textiles Pact and WRAP’s growing international Textiles work.

Mark has worked in the textiles and clothing industries for over 30 years. He has an Engineering Doctorate in Textile Engineering and spent over 15 years working the UK’s largest clothing retailer. He was a Sustainable Fashion lecturer at the University of Leeds for over 10 years with a wide-ranging research portfolio that included consumer behaviour, modern slavery, microfibres and garment durability.

Throughout his work he has focussed on ensuring solutions are economical sustainable and reflect stakeholder needs based on key frameworks such as the UN SDGs and Just Transitions principles.

Catherine Salvidge leads WRAP's technical strategy on Circular Design through the UK Textiles Pact and WRAP’s global Durability Accelerator Initiative, which brings together global brands to develop new industry durability protocols and benchmarks that support a more circular textile system. Before joining WRAP, Cat spent over 10 years as a fashion designer for some of the UK’s best-known high-street brands.