Katrin Ley
Managing Director, Fashion for Good

From our conversation

“Collaboration is often such a buzzword in the industry, but collaboration only happens when you bring the right partners together at the right point in time with the right orchestration.”

Biography

As Managing Director, Katrin Ley supports Fashion for Good’s global efforts harnessing the power of innovation, practical action and cross-sector collaboration to drive the transition to a circular apparel and textile industry. Katrin joined Fashion for Good from Pymwymic, the “Put your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community” of European wealth holders who invest for impact. Under her leadership as Managing Partner, Pymwymic launched the first-ever peer-to-peer impact holding company, welcoming mission-aligned families and individual investors as shareholders. Prior to joining Pymwymic, Katrin was Managing Director within the Adidas Group (US and Netherlands) and a Principal within the Boston Consulting Group (Germany and Scandinavia). She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is the founding curator of the Amsterdam Global Shapers Hub.

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Interview

Scaling Industry Transformation Through Collaboration: Katrin Ley
In this conversation, Katrin explains how Fashion for Good operates at the intersection of innovators, brands, manufacturers and investors to orchestrate targeted collaboration in the industry. She shares how initiatives like the Fiber Club aim to accelerate the adoption of next-generation materials, while projects like Future Forward Factories demonstrate how to innovate low-impact decarbonization solutions within supply chains. Reflecting on both progress and challenges in her work, Katrin finds hope in collective momentum and small wins that can culminate into industry-wide transformation.