Speaker Bio

Safia Minney, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, consultant and advisor. Safia is recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and is a leading influencer and international speaker on sustainable fashion, sustainable supply chains, ethical business and climate action.

Safia has authored 9 books including ‘Slave to Fashion’, campaigning to eradicate modern day slavery in the fashion industry, ‘Slow Fashion – Aesthetics meets Ethics’ and in 2022 ‘Regenerative Fashion’. 

Safia founded REAL Sustainability CIC in 2019, to promote awareness and action for sustainable living and leadership. In 2022 REAL launched Fashion Declares – a bottom-up, industry wide movement to promote rapid action to redesign the fashion industry to operate within planetary boundaries. 

Recent accolades: 

• • 2022 Drapers Awards Safia Minney ‘Sustainable Fashion Champion’ for her work with People Tree and leading Fashion Declares movement
  • 2021 P.E.A. Awards Safia Minney, ‘Green Pioneer’

• Woman’s Hour Top 30 Women in Sustainability, 2020