Francesca Romana Rinaldi

Francesca Romana Rinaldi is part of the core faculty at the Sustainability Lab of SDA Bocconi School of Management, where she directs the "Monitor for Circular Fashion". In the MAFED – Master in Fashion, Experience and Design Management at SDA Bocconi, she coordinates the course "Managing Sustainability in Fashion." Additionally, at SDA Bocconi, she directs the on-demand executive course "Circular Fashion Management."

Her research activities focus on sustainability, circularity, traceability, and transparency in the fashion industry. At Bocconi University, she directs the course "Fashion Collections and Sustainability" and serves as Project Manager and researcher in the PNRR MUSA Spoke 5 project. She was the Project Manager for Bocconi University's European research project for the European Commission titled "Small but perfectly formed: accelerating the rise of circular and sustainable SMEs in fashion." Francesca Romana Rinaldi is the author of "Fashion Industry 2030" (Egea-BUP, 2019), co-author of "Circular Fashion Management" (Egea - BUP, 2024), "The Responsible Fashion Company" (Greenleaf Publishing - Routledge, 2014), and "L'Impresa Moda Responsabile" (Egea, 2013; Egea, 2022). She works as a consultant for companies in the fashion and luxury sectors and institutions, focusing on sustainability, circularity, business model innovation, and digital strategies. She supported the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in the project "Enhancing Transparency and Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Garment and Footwear Industry" and the European Commission DG GROW in the project "Textiles Transition Pathway." As a keynote speaker at national and international forums, Francesca Romana is frequently interviewed by Italian and international television channels.

She earned a Master's in Economics and Management from Bocconi University in 2004, completed the Teaching Excellence Program at SDA Bocconi in 2013, and obtained a PhD from IULM in 2018.