Madhubanti Anashua is an Advisor for Environmental Policy and Resource Efficiency at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and a dual-career PhD fellow at the United Nations University and Maastricht University.
Anashua’s professional experience is centered on sustainability advisory and policy advocacy within the textile sector of Asia by bringing together the private and public sector. Her work addresses environmental due diligence, cleaner production, circular textiles, and decarbonization challenges within supply chains. Anashua currently provides policy advisory to the Government of Bangladesh on the development of recommendations on instruments to enhance the environmental sustainability of the textile industry. Previously, she functioned as a consultant Environment Specialist at the Partnership for Cleaner Textile program of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), providing policy advisory to improve the business environment in Bangladesh, alongside conceptualizing new business development around decarbonization in South Asia.
Her research interest lies in textile circularity in terms of recycling of pre-consumer waste, and the role of policy drivers such as the Extended Producer Responsibility on eco-innovations for a circular transition in supplier countries. She currently serves as a Steering Committee member for the Global Circular Fashion Forum – a multi-stakeholder platform to accelerate the recycling of post-industrial textile waste in textile-manufacturing countries. Additionally, she is interested in the cross-section of policy, good governance and development effectiveness, having worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Bangladesh at the Ministry of Finance, enabling its development financing capacity. Her publications include the Upstream Circularity Playbook and a book chapter titled “How Good Governance Helps Achieving Results for Development Cooperation at the Sector-Level.”
She completed her Master of Science from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and her Bachelor of Arts from Clark University in Massachusetts, United States.