Karen Sim

Karen Sim is a system change specialist in Forum for the Future’s Southeast Asia team. For the past four years, she has been leading Forum’s work exploring value chains and the impact of brand-supplier relationships in a variety of circular textile challenges, and what deep transformations within the fashion ecosystem could look like. 

Karen’s background is in environmental sustainability where she worked with companies and governments on a wide range of sustainability challenges, notably in food commodities, wildlife trade as well as landscape and species conservation with international organisations such as WWF and the WBCSD.

Outside of work, Karen has spent many years as an environmental advocate with various volunteer groups that influence and aims to create positive change environmental legislation in Singapore, speaking up about climate and wildlife policies in public forums. 

Education: MA Intelligence & International Security (War Studies Dept, Kings College, London), Certificate in Political Studies (Sciences Po, Aix-en-Provence), BA European Studies (Hons) (National University of Singapore)