Helena Helmersson

Helena Helmersson (born 1973) is a Swedish business executive. Since 2010, she has been head of sustainability at the Swedish retail clothing company H&M.[1]

Helena Helmersson

Biography

Born in Skellefteå in the north of Sweden she grew up with her family (her parents and two sisters), Helmersson graduated with a master's degree in international business administration at the Umeå School of Business and Economics in 1997.[1] On joining H&M in 1997, she became a section manager in the buying office before she went to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2007 where she was H&M's production manager. After a further period serving as their department manager for underwear production in Hong Kong until 2010 when she returned to Stockholm to be manager for social responsibility and supply.[2][3]

Since January the 30th (2020) she has been appointed as the CEO of H&M. Helmersson's current responsibilities cover the improvement of the social and environmental sustainability of supply, contributing to H&M's sustainability strategy which was initially implemented in the 1990s.[4]

On 5 March 2014, Helmersson was elected Sweden's "Most Powerful Woman in Business" by the weekly business magazine Veckans Affärer.[1] The honour came as a complete surprise. Interviewed by Alan Atkisson of GreenBiz, she commented: "I'm super proud and very happy. There is a gigantic amount of teamwork behind everything we do, and I take this as proof that it's been visible."[5]

gollark: Meh, I charge it overnight.
gollark: Oh, Apple stuff is ridiculously hard to repair, that's bad too.
gollark: My phone could before its (nonreplaceable) battery degraded over a few years.
gollark: Apple goes for "ah yes let us make very thin phones and ruin battery life", like most companies.
gollark: They should be thicker and include several days of battery time, in my opinion.

References
  1. "Alumna from Umeå University is named most powerful woman in business". Umeå University. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  2. "Helena Helmersson: Chief Sustainability Officer, H&M". Business of Fashion. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  3. "Speaker: Helena Helmersson". BSR. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  4. "Helena Helmersson: Head of Sustainability – H&M". Nordic Fashion Association. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  5. Atkisson, Alan (29 April 2014). "How She Leads: H&M's Helena Helmersson". GreenBiz.
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