As the sustainability team lead, Karine Kicak is responsible for helping the ALDO Group bring meaningful change to people and the planet. Some of those efforts include becoming the first climate neutral fashion footwear and accessories company in the world, rethinking single-use packaging and working to introduce new sustainable and innovative materials in collections.

Karine is a Chemical Engineer and a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expert with over ten years of experience in environmental modeling and footprinting. She started off her career with the International Reference Center for Life Cycle of Products, and was then part of the Quantis International team with a mandate to deliver robust sustainability metrics to a wide array of clients and sectors.

Karine has been actively involved in developing product footprint tools with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and is the author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed LCA studies.