Mariana Silva

Mariana Pereira Silva is a PhD student, focusing on Development Studies. She holds a Master's degree in Fashion Branding and Design from IADE and UBI, completing her academic journey with the dissertation titled "Sustainable Fashion Communication in Retail: The Role of Ecolabels in Sustainable Fashion Consumption." Since 2021, Mariana has been working as a journalist specializing in 

# sustainability hashtag_lookup:#sustainability, culture, and global affairs, contributing to prestigious magazines such as Vogue and GQ Portugal. Mariana presented as a speaker at the Fashion & Sustainability conference at Universidade Lusófona in 2022 and the 2023 Sustainability Summit at ISCTE, Portugal.

In 2023, Mariana founded Ethica - Sustainable Fashion Hub, a platform dedicated to educating both brands and consumers on # sustainablefashion hashtag_lookup:#sustainablefashion. Currently, she works as a research assistant at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, contributing to the project "The Role of Portuguese Manufacturers/Suppliers in Sustainability-Oriented Innovation and Competitiveness in the Clothing and Textile Industry," supervised by Professor Céline Abecassis-Moedas and funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.