Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen

Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen is the Founder and Director of ORCA & Co., a strategy advisory firm that works with companies and asset owners to maximize business value and societal impact by placing environmental, social, and governance factors at the heart of decision-making.

Pruzan-Jorgensen was previously a member of the executive committee at BSR, where he led the organization’s growth in EMEA as well as its work on a multi-company collaboration, women’s empowerment, and government and foundations. An experienced sustainability executive, he is a member of several sustainability advisory boards and works with world-leading companies in multiple industries.

Pruzan-Jorgensen has worked with the fashion industry through most of his business career, in recent years mostly on how to advance women’s empowerment in global fashion supply chains. He led the formation of one of the first collaborative initiatives in the luxury industry, the then Sustainable Luxury Working Group, initially focused on exotic skins supply chains. He has supported the Copenhagen Fashion Summit since its beginning.