Anitha Kannan

Anitha Kannan is a Sustainability Scientist at Bureau Veritas, with expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA), circularity metrics, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting & reporting across the apparel and textiles sector. With a background as an analyst conducting detailed LCAs, she helps brands understand environmental trade-offs and make science-based sourcing and design decisions. Anitha also brings hands-on R&D experience in textile end-of-life solutions—including advanced recycling pathways, reuse systems, and waste-to-resource strategies—supporting organizations in assessing downstream impacts and evaluating material innovations to design for circularity. She applies a whole system’s thinking approach to uncover interdependencies across value chains, integrating LCA data with broader social, environmental, and operational considerations to guide companies in navigating complex tradeoffs and achieving meaningful impact reduction.