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Dr Saniyat Islam is a Senior lecturer in Fashion Enterprise and Sustainable Innovation at the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University. His key research expertise is in Textile Materials and Polymer Science. His current research focuses on Circular Business models, Blockchain innovation for Fashion Enterprises, sustainable textile materials, and supply-chain traceability of fashion systems.

Dr Sheetal Jain is founder of Luxe Analytics, a luxury market consulting firm based in New Delhi. She is an experienced luxury industry professional credited with conducting India's first quantitative study on luxury consumer behaviour.

Dr Alana James is an experienced fashion designer, educator and researcher focused on creating sustainable change in the future of the fashion industry. She believes that garments should not be beautiful at the expense of people and the planet and through innovative design approaches aims to embed responsible values throughout the fashion product lifecycle.

From a research perspective Dr James engages in challenge-led investigations that reflect contemporary societal issues. From an educational perspective she encourages students to think differently, creating ambitious sustainable solutions.

Approaching complex issues from a multi-stakeholder approach, her strengths include engaging with fashion consumers and applying design strategies to encourage small shifts in behaviour towards large-scale sustainable change.

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent, evidence-based science and knowledge, supporting EU policies to positively impact society. The EU Science Hub is the main website of the JRC.

Scott Kaier is Founder and President of Formidable Media, a boutique communications agency operating on a global scale. It offers full-time senior level consulting, ideation, and performance. 

Focused on new thinking, deep relationships, and authentic storytelling, Formidable draws on 27 years of public relations and outdoor industry experience to help a select group of dynamic clients build their brands on a global scale through a customised suite of marketing services including: public relations/earned media, paid media packages, custom content creation, and digital marketing support.

As an outdoor enthusiast, Kaier has worked various jobs in the outdoor industry before his career as a public relations professional began in 2006. When not working, he can usually be found on a bike or in the water.

Ameet Kaul, at present working as CMO for Texcoms Worldwide, is a techno-commercial professional associated with the field of textiles and apparel trade for more than 25 years. His journey has been an exciting roller-coaster, with exposure across the diverse textile value chain. He has worked in different geographies across the globe with multicultural teams. His key strengths include strategy, business development. He is an ardent follower and contributor in the sustainability domain of the textiles and apparel trade.

Elizabeth Kealy-Morris is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Dress and Belonging at Manchester Fashion Institute. Originally from the States, she worked in printing and publishing in NYC before settling in Manchester, UK. Kealy-Morris lectures across fashion studies subjects including critical theory, brand development, marketing principals, and graphic communication practice for fashion. She is associate editor of the journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, an imprint of Intellect Books.

Elizabeth's research is multidisciplinary in nature. She seeks connections between cultural memory, autoethnography, human geography, dress, identity, disability, belonging and wellness. She co-organised and co-led the January 2021 international symposium Face Off: The Provocation and Possibilities of Masks and Head Coverings which emerged from her interest in how society changed and adapted through the wearing of the COVID face masks during the pandemic. Elizabeth's paper for the conference, ‘Who is the Sick One Here: Mask Refusal and Ambivalent Social Identity in COVID America’, explored the links between American cultural memory of ‘The Frontier’ and the cultural trope of ‘Pioneer Spirit’ in the visceral rejection of the COVID medical mask as a symbol of fragility and sickness. This will soon be published as a chapter in an edited Intellect Books volume. She is guest editor of the Fashion, Style and Popular Culture Special Issue, 'Dressing through Pandemics'.

ANUJ KEJRIWAL, CEO & MD at ANAROCK Retail, has over 15 years of hands-on experience in advising domestic and multinational retail property owners, occupiers, and investors. At ANAROCK Retail, he aligns the retail business to ANAROCK’s first-in-industry business models to dovetail with the overall operations and deliver a unique bouquet of services to its retail clients. He heads a team of highly experienced retail real estate professionals.

Dina Khalifa is an experienced academic in the areas of luxury branding and marketing with more than 10 years of teaching experience in both the UK and Egypt. She has a PhD in luxury brand marketing with a focus on consumer responses to identity threats and social exclusion. She has supervised master and PhD dissertations on various topics such as status, envy and inequalities, the meaning and significance of the Hijab identity in the age of Islamophobia and the impact of influencer marketing on luxury consumption and consumer well-being.

Her research focuses on the social psychological motivations that drive luxury consumption, using quantitative experimental research design. In particular, she is interested in areas of Identity threats, Luxury brand status, Brand rejection and group conformity, Luxury values perceptions, cross-cultural examination of luxury consumption and sustainability in the luxury sector. She has recently won a research grant to investigate the attitude- behaviour gap for sustainable fashion consumption.
 

Arshad Khan is an engineer specialising in Leather Technology from Anna University & CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute. With a strong desire to revolutionise the global leather industry, he has immersed himself in the field for the past seven years, gaining valuable experience across India, Italy, Spain, and  Portugal.

Arshad is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at findmyleather.com, a startup addressing supply chain challenges in the global leather industry using technology backed by the government of India. Arshad is also recognised for being vocal about his industry insights on social media. 

He is also the founder of leathernews.org, a digital-first global leather industry dedicated news platform providing insightful, factual, and up-to-date news, data, and insights in an easily understandable way.