Interview: Raising Sustainability In The Fashion Industry

Climate Strategy & Risk
Net Zero

The global fashion industry generates around 10% of global carbon emissions - more than from aviation and shipping combined. Lengthy supply chains and energy-intensive production methods make that a challenge to tackle, but it’s imperative that it is addressed. Listen to our interview with Tom Berry, a sustainability director who’s recently spent over five years doing just that.

Niraj Saraf

Niraj is Director, Advisory Services. He is an innovation leader with 30 years’ experience of strategy and policy development, and project and programme management across public, private, and voluntary sector organisations in the UK and internationally. Niraj started his career in the Fast Stream of the UK Civil Service and subsequently worked in banking and in consulting. Over the past decade, he has been focusing on innovation for sustainability, spending 7 years at the UK Government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, and, most recently, at a deep tech start-up. His qualifications include an MBA from Imperial Business School, and an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge Business School, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Tom Berry

Tom has been working in a combination of business strategy and sustainability for more than 20 years.

He is now an independent advisor working with a range of businesses, investors, and innovators to help them succeed by integrating sustainability with their core strategy. Prior to this he was the Global Director of Sustainable Business at FARFETCH, the global ecommerce and technology platform for the luxury industry. There he ran a cross-functional program of work including innovating and scaling new circular business models like resale and repair; changing consumer journeys and propositions to enable them to buy better products; and improving the company carbon footprint while saving cost and engaging consumers.

His industry experience ranges across consumer retail, fashion, technology, with senior corporate sustainability roles at Kimberly Clark and Innocent Drinks and leading industry programs for Forum for the Future (in the UK) and The Institute for Sustainable Futures (in Australia) both non-profit organisations providing strategic sustainability advice to business. He started his career as a management consultant at Gemini Consulting – a global strategy consultancy based in London.