Eva Kruse is the Chief Global Engagement Officer at PANGAIA, a direct-to-consumer materials science company on a mission to save the environment through breakthrough innovations for everyday lifestyle products. 

Eva is an experienced apparel industry executive and has pioneered social and environmental responsibility in fashion by spearheading the movement towards a more responsible fashion industry, as the founder and CEO of Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and the renowned event Global Fashion Summit. 

Eva’s CV includes many other roles before mobilising fashion industry leaders to take bold and urgent action on sustainability. She was founder and CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week for more than a decade and previously also served as editor in chief of magazines and as tv-presenter. 

A globally recognised voice in sustainability and keynote speaker at conferences across the world incl. TEDx Talk, Eva holds the Human Rights Prize from the French Embassy, and a Royal Order of Chivalry from the Danish Monarchy.

On behalf of PANGAIA Eva is currently working on rallying a new business coalition to run an ambitious global citizens’ campaign and movement to save our pollinators, biodiversity and unlock nature-based climate solutions, called Bee:wild.