Elisa leads BSR’s consumer sectors practice globally and oversees the BSR global membership network. She works with companies in the luxury, beauty, fashion, hospitality, retail, and food industries to better integrate sustainability into core business strategy, products, and operations.
She helps companies understand the world’s big disruptions, create resilient and inclusive business models and practices, and evolve brand strategy to integrate changing consumer expectations. Elisa also leads BSR’s Responsible Luxury Initiative and the Southeast Asia Reptile Conservation Alliance (SARCA).
Prior to joining BSR, Elisa was an account manager at CHANEL and a consultant at Accenture and Ernst & Young.
Elisa is French-American. She holds an M.B.A. in Luxury Goods Marketing and Management from Sup de Luxe, an M.A. in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris, and a B.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania.
Insights From Elisa Niemtzow
- Luxury’s Move to E-Commerce and Its Implications for Sustainability | Feb 23, 2022 | Blog
- Le luxe fait la révolution durable (Article in French) | Mar 15, 2021 | News
- Luxury in the New Normal: Leadership and Innovation in 2020 and Beyond | Oct 16, 2020 | News
- Amazon Wants You To Know What Products Are Sustainable | Sep 24, 2020 | News
- The 10 Fashion Sustainability Initiatives to Know and What They Do | Sep 15, 2020 | News
- How Fashion’s Sustainability Targets Measure Up | Sep 14, 2020 | News
- Fashion Jobs That Are in Demand Now | Jul 30, 2020 | News
- Meet the Moment and Build the Future at the BSR20 Virtual Conference | Jul 15, 2020 | Blog
- Will Fashion Ever Be Good for the World? Its Future May Depend on It. | May 29, 2020 | News
- Fashion’s Humanitarian Crisis | Apr 1, 2020 | News
- Fashion’s Supply Chain Disruptions: What You Need to Know | Mar 31, 2020 | News
- Not Shopping, Period | Mar 11, 2020 | News
- Australia’s Wildfires Serve as a Rallying Cry for Fashion | Jan 10, 2020 | News
- Quand les entreprises s’unissent pour changer de modèle | Sep 30, 2019 | News
- Gucci Looks to Set a New Trend on Carbon Neutrality | Sep 12, 2019 | News
- How to Deal With Another Long, Hot Summer? European Brands Have a Plan | Jun 19, 2019 | News
- Stella McCartney and Google Have a Plan to Fix Fashion’s Environmental Data Gap | May 15, 2019 | News
- Five Trends Defining the Future of Retail | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog
- Building a Sustainable Brand: How to Get Started | Mar 20, 2019 | News
- Disrupting Luxury: Creating Resilient Businesses in Times of Rapid Change | Jul 19, 2018 | Reports
- How Luxury Can Lead the Future of Sustainable Business | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog
- Here’s How to Use Your Company’s Most Powerful Tool to Change the World | Mar 14, 2018 | News
- Tara Norton and Elisa Niemtzow | Mar 14, 2018 | News
- Luxury, Sustainability, and Desirability: Two New Rules of the Game | Jul 26, 2017 | Blog
- Big Brands, Big Impact: A Marketer’s Guide to Behavior Change | May 31, 2017 | Reports
- Sustainability: A Brand’s Secret Weapon | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
- Unsustainability Shutters Socially Responsible Luxury Brand Suno | Nov 22, 2016 | News
- Luxury Fashion at the Sustainability Crossroads | May 25, 2016 | Blog
- Three Years After Rana Plaza, Has Anything Changed? | Apr 19, 2016 | News
- What the COP21 Climate Agreement Means for Fashion | Dec 16, 2015 | News
- The Luxury Sector Now Focusing on a Sustainable Future | Dec 1, 2015 | News
- Solving the Cashmere Crisis | Nov 26, 2015 | News
- Climate Change: Implications and Strategies for the Luxury Fashion Sector | Nov 4, 2015 | Reports
- New BSR, Kering Report Examines How Climate Change Will Affect Luxury Fashion | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog
- Want to Sell Sustainability? Give Consumers What They Want | May 11, 2015 | Blog
- Sustainable Lifestyles: A New Frontier for Business? | Sep 19, 2013 | Blog
- Are Consumers Done with Fast Fashion? | Jun 4, 2013 | Blog
- Detoxifying the Apparel and Footwear Supply Chain | Apr 22, 2013 | Blog