Silvia Gómez Cisneros

She is Director of the Master’s Degree in Fashion Design at Universidad Europea de Madrid, a lecturer and member of the EcoBD Lab research group. With more than three decades of professional experience in design, fashion and sustainability, she works at the intersection of creative practice, design innovation and higher education.

She holds a degree in Fine Art from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Image, Technology and Design. Her career combines creative direction, strategic consultancy and university teaching. Her work focuses on ecodesign, circularity and the integration of social and environmental criteria into the fashion industry.

She has taken part in several European projects aimed at the sector’s sustainable transition, including S4Fashion (COSME, EU), Hackthatfashion (Creative Europe) and Sogefash CREATE, which focus on innovation, training, entrepreneurship and sustainable business models. She has also collaborated on the research project The Social Impact of Circular Economy in the Apparel Value Chain, coordinated by the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University.

She has also worked as a consultant in textile innovation and ecodesign for projects with social and environmental impact, including collaborations with IKEA Spain and the development of in-company training content in creative fashion areas for ZARA CAMP (Inditex).