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Anna Garton's forte lies in implementing circular textile strategies. Her commitment to circular textiles has been a driving force in fostering pioneering and innovative solutions for household collected post-consumer end-of-life textile materials. Through meticulous research and development, she has contributed to creating commercial products and business models that prioritise circular practices. 

Until recently, she was a post-consumer textiles expert at the LSJH (Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto), a municipal waste management company in Finland that coordinates the nationwide separate collection of end-of-life textiles from households. LSJH works closely with many European MMCF fibre producers and recycled fibre innovators to create new supply chains to scale up the use of existing textiles in their processes as feedstock.

Dr Suresh Gaur is a PR and communication expert, having over 37 years of experience in PR and communication, including 16 years of teaching public relations, advertising and event management at top media colleges of Delhi NCR as a Visiting Professor.

Gaur is the author of four books on public relations and event management, and has contributed 12 chapters on different aspects of PR in ten books edited by renowned media educators.

SUBIR GHOSH is a Kolkata-based independent journalist-writer-researcher who writes about environment, corruption, crony capitalism, conflict, wildlife, and cinema. He is the author of two books, and has co-authored two more with others. In mainstream media, he has worked with the Press Trust of India (PTI), the Telegraph, and the Daily News and Analysis (DNA). 

He has handled communications and publications for the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Association of India (FHRAI). and SPG Publications. Over the years, he has been a columnist for a host of publications, including First Post, Kindle, Asian Correspondent, The Asian, Yuva and the Imphal Free Press, among others. 

He writes, edits, reports and designs. He is also a professionally trained and qualified photographer.

Directeur de Recherche au CNRS au laboratoire Takuvik et professeur associé au département de chimie de l’Université Laval, Julien Gigault s’intéresse aux particules et nanoparticules anthropiques dans l’environnement. Une des spécialités de Julien Gigault est de mettre au point des stratégies analytiques pour identifier la présence, les sources et les flux de nanoparticules dans les différents compartiments environnementaux. Le comportement et les impacts des nanoparticules sont au cœur de ces préoccupations en collaborant avec des biologistes sur ces questions.

Katherine V Gough is Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University.

Dr Louise Grimmer is Associate Head Research Performance and Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing at the University of Tasmania. Louise is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, a 2021 Fulbright Scholar and Senior Fellow with the Institute of Place Management in the UK.

Louise researches local shopping precincts, factors affecting small and independent retailers, and how marketing communications can help retailers grow their firms. Her other research interests are supermarket and department store retailing, thrift and sustainable shopping, tourism and retailing, issues management and crisis communications in the context of the retail industry, and how the digital economy is transforming traditional modes of shopping.

Louise is a Member (and Certified Practising Marketer - CPM) of the Australian Marketing Institute and a Member of the American Marketing Association. She hosts the retail podcast 'Shopology', has worked as a national radio presenter for the ABC, and writes the 'Retail Therapy' column for TasWeekend in The Mercury newspaper.

Louise is regularly sought out for expert comment by local, national and international media outlets and she has published in leading academic journals including Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, and Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics.

Abhay Gupta is the Founder & CEO of Luxury Connect & Luxury Connect Business School (LCBS).

Author of the book The Incredible Indian Luxury Bazaar, Gupta, recognised as the 'Luxury retail icon of the year 2012' by Asia Retail Congress, has won several awards across India, SEA and GCC regions. Featured in 'India's top 100 most influential men of luxury for seven consecutive years 2012 to 2019 in a row, he has also been on the panel of jury members for Luxury Lifestyle Awards, Asia. Additionally, Gupta has been acknowledged as the 'Most Influential Retail professional & Retail leader across Asia - GCC and Africa: 2016, 2017 & 2018' by Asia Retail Congress.

Having being featured in Forbes Luxury Trend Report 2012 as one of the industry leaders, he has also been widely recognised as a luxury expert by CNBC, CNN, NDTV Profit, Business India, Economic Times, to name a few. He helped not only bring but also establish luxury brands like Versace, Versace Home, Versace Collection, Corneliani, John Smedley, Tween Damat ADV, Arredo Classic, etc, in India. He has now been mandated by a plethora of luxury brands across fashion, lifestyle, home, interior and residences, etc, for their India entry strategy.

A regular speaker at most luxury forums, Fondazione Altagama has also recognised his contribution to the growth of Italian luxury industry by his pioneering efforts in India.

Lisa J Hackett is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. Her key research areas are Aviation History, Uniforms, Clothing and Fashion, Popular Culture, Romance Novels and the British Royal Family. She is the co-founder, along side Associate Professor Jo Coghlan and Mr Huw Nolan, of PopCRN, the Popular Culture Research Network.

Kersten Hall graduated from St. Anne's College, Oxford with a degree in biochemistry, before embarking on a PhD at the University of Leeds using molecular biology to study how viruses evade the human immune system. He then worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Leeds before becoming a Visiting Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. His book 'The Man in the Monkeynut Coat:' (Oxford University Press, 2014) explores the life and work of physicist William Astbury who, from an unusual start studying the structure of wool fibres, made the very first attempt to solve the structure of DNA. The book was featured in a list of 'Books of 2014' by 'The Guardian' newspaper (https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2015/jan/01/books-of-…) and was shortlisted for the 2015 British Society for the History of Science Dingle Prize. His next book, 'Insulin, the Crooked Timber - from 'Thick Brown Muck' to Wall Street Gold' tells the story of the discovery and development of insulin, and the controversies that surrounded this medical milestone, and will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.

A Senior Lecturer and Deputy Division Head for Fashion Communications at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Dr Hilde Heim has worn many a hat since she began her career as a fashion designer into graphic design, designing layouts for the likes of Vogue, Elle and Madame Figaro in Paris to launching her boutiques in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, designing, manufacturing, importing, retailing and wholesaling designer formal wear collections. She then decided to partake this wealth of knowledge and transitioned to academia and became a lecturer, applying her strengths in design studio work, styling, context and influences, as well as fashion visualisation through manual and computer aided design. 

She has since successfully undertaken programme and faculty leadership and management roles, course compliance and curriculum development. With two PhDs under her belt, she now also works as a consultant on advisory boards, connecting fashion and tech start-ups as well as industry organisations. Her current research spans digitalising supply chain transparency, digital product passports and informing policy on circularity.