Lis J. Suarez-Visbal, is an Ashoka fellow social innovator, a system mover and a Doctoral researcher at Utrecht University. She has more than 18 years of professional experience in several countries including The Netherlands, Spain, India, Canada, the US, Thailand, Mali and in Colombia as an NGO director, and advocate of social impact with a gender lens. She has a BS in Finance and International Cooperation from the Externado University of Colombia, a Graduate degree in Special Studies from Harvard University and a MSc in Sustainable Business and Innovation from Utrecht University. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral research at the same institution. Her field of expertise is circular economy, systems change and social impacts in the textile sector (amongst others). She has devoted the last three years of her doctoral research to find evidence of social impact in the apparel value chain and how can companies and policymakers in the sector can reduce the asymmetry between social and environmental impacts toward a transition of improved working conditions and well-being for all workers and greater circularity practices in the sector. She has co-authored two book chapters around social impact and circular economy in the sector and has published two peer reviewed scientific articles and three white papers on the subject.
