Georgia Parker

Innovation Platform Director at Fashion for Good

Georgia Parker is the Innovation Platform Director at Fashion for Good. Prior to joining Fashion for Good, Georgia was with adidas as the Brand Sustainability - circularity Lead from September 2017 to March 2018. From March 2017 to March 2018, they were also a Schmidt MacArthur Fellow with Ellen MacArthur Foundation. And before that, they were the Co-Founder of N-Grain from October 2016 to October 2017.

Georgia has always been passionate about sustainability and has been working on initiatives to promote circular economy since their graduate days. As the Brand Sustainability - circularity Lead at adidas, they were responsible for driving the company's sustainability agenda forward through initiatives such as sustainable product design, closed loop manufacturing and material innovation. At Ellen MacArthur Foundation, they worked on building knowledge about the circular economy and developing skills related to it through online and in-person collaboration.

As the Co-Founder of N-Grain, Georgia was instrumental in developing the business concept and launching the website and social media campaign to address the issue of disposable coffee cups and packaging waste. N-Grain was semi-finalists on Imperial’s Althea programme, a women’s entrepreneurship competition and also participants on the Climate KIC pre-incubator challenge.

Georgia's passion for sustainability and their experience in driving sustainability initiatives in the fashion industry makes their the perfect candidate for the Innovation Platform Director role at Fashion for Good. In this role, they are responsible for identifying and incubating new technologies and ideas that can help make the fashion industry more sustainable.

Georgia Parker's educational career includes a MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, an ACA qualification from ICAEW, and a degree in English Literature from The University of Manchester. Georgia also has a certification from ICAEW in ACA.

Some of their coworkers include Dagmar Grote - Partnership Manager, Simone Hageman - Office Manager, and Alyxandra Westwood - Curator & Education Coordinator. Georgia Parker reports to Katrin Ley, Managing Director.

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Timeline

  • Innovation Platform Director

    February, 2022 - present

  • Innovation Manager (Focus Raw Materials, Processing, CBM)

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