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". She teaches sustainability management in the MAFED – Master in Fashion, Experience and Design Management and in the MSM – Master in Sustainability Management. She also directs the on-demand executive course "Circular Fashion Management – Building Sustainable Value Chains." She is currently the Scientific Director of SDA Bocconi's research project titled "Transition Pathways Stakeholders' Support Platform: Implementation for the Textiles Ecosystem", funded by the DG GROW of the European Commission.

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 teaches "Business Economics for the Cultural Sector" and "Management of Fashion Companies". She has served 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 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". As a keynote speaker at national and international forums, Francesca Romana is frequently interviewed by Italian and international television channels regarding her research on sustainable and circular fashion.

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.