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Mark Stevenson is Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University. Research interests in socially sustainable supply chain management, including modern slavery; supply chain risk and resilience; product counterfeiting; and high-variety production.

Dr Charles W Stewart’s long career in textiles was filled with manufacturing, academia, and technical development, sales, and service. His many experiences came from a diverse range of international suppliers of textile dyes, chemical auxiliaries, fibres, and industrial enzymes to establishing and operating Tumbling Colors, a global resource for custom colour and finish development. 

Having recently retired, Stewart continues to expand and share his vast knowledge regarding colour, colourants, and colourisations.

Tara Stringer is a PhD candidate (Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice & Faculty of Business and Law) and sessional academic with a background in marketing, consumer behaviour and fashion. Her research focuses on ethical consumption and sustainability along the fashion supply chain and the impact of fast fashion on consumer behaviour. With a focus on consumer perception towards modern slavery, her current research aims to understand barriers to pro-social consumer behaviour.

Valérie Swaen has a PhD in Economics and Management Sciences from UCLouvain and is a Full Professor of marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain School of Management, Belgium) and at IESEG School of Management (France).

From September 2019 to August 2024, she was the president of the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM, UCLouvain). She is also leading the Louvain CSR network that gathers and supports researchers and practitioners who seek to put responsible leadership and sustainable production and consumption at the heart of their research and strategy. She held different corporate chairs in CSR (with companies such as Solvay, Spadel, SNCB).

Prof Swaen studies corporate social responsibility from different fields of management, even if her main research interest concerns stakeholders’ reactions to CSR communication. She has published academic papers in international journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Marketing Letters, among others.

Mariko Takedomi Karlsson is an interdisciplinary scholar in Human Ecology currently employed as Postdoctoral research fellow in Environmental and Energy System Studies at the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering. Her interests include feminist theory, political ecology, sustainability, environmental justice, labour rights and political economy.

Samantha Taylor is a 3rd generation garment producer with 20 years industry experience. Having worked across fast fashion, high end and sportswear, in all parts of the value chain, she established The Good Factory in 2020 to provide complete supply chain transparency and bring sustainable products to a wider audience by working directly with brands.

The Good Factory provides strategy and product services including ESG, sourcing and materials, and end of life strategy, product creation through product development, garment technology and production services.

Eric Trachtenberg is Executive Director, International Cotton Advisory Committee.

Urška Trunk joined the Changing Markets Foundation in 2017 and has worked across campaigns on fashion and fisheries. Before joining the Changing Markets Foundation, Urška worked at a Brussels-based NGO, Carbon Market Watch, as the Climate Finance Policy Officer, advocating for more effective and accountable use of climate finance that does not cause social or environmental harm. 

Urška was responsible for implementing Carbon Market Watch campaigns at the international and EU level focusing on sustainable development, human rights and public participation in the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS), Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Prior to that, Urška worked at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Brussels and the European Commission Representation Office in Slovenia.

Born and raised in Slovenia, Urška read European Studies at the University of Ljubljana and graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium with a Master’s Degree in European Politics and Policies. Now based in Brussels, Urska enjoys exploring new cuisines, playing music, doing sports and outdoor activities. She speaks English, Slovenian, Croatian and some French.

Liesl Truscott is a Strategic Director in Nature Strategies at The Biodiversity Consultancy. Liesl specialises in textiles, fibres and raw materials, supply networks, industry accountability and corporate reporting, and has a deep knowledge of the fashion and textiles sector gained over 13 years at Textile Exchange. She now supports companies and sectors on deepening their sustainability strategies to have ambitious, measurable, and positive outcomes for nature, climate, and people.

Nusa Urbancic has been with the Changing Markets Foundation since it was founded in 2015 and her role was to set up the organisation’s main office in London and to manage the team of Changing Markets campaigners. She leads the development of strategies and oversees the implementation of the Foundations’ campaigns, research and media work. 

She also sits on the advisory committee of Break Free from Plastic Europe. Before joining Changing Markets, she worked for over 6 years in Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment leading its Energy programme, advocating for more climate-friendly European policies on transport fuels. Nusa has an MA in International Relations from the University of Ljubljana and an LLM in Human Rights from the London-based Birkbeck University.

About Changing Markets Foundation: The Changing Markets Foundation was formed to accelerate and scale up solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets. Working in partnership with NGOs, other foundations and research organisations, it creates and supports campaigns that shift market share away from unsustainable products and companies and towards environmentally and socially beneficial solutions.