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Dr Marian Makkar is a marketing academic whose research is anchored in consumer culture. She examines consumer effects on market development, consumption communities, consumer experiences, and market exclusion and dispossession. In particular to market exclusion, her recent work on cultural appropriation looks at how brands appropriate cultures that are less powerful, disadvantaged minority and indigenous groups.

Marian started her career in luxury retail as Marketing Manager of Alfred Dunhill Limited. She also worked in public relations handling FMCG brands, beauty products and luxury automotive brands that spanned the Middle East, Africa and New Zealand.

Jack Marley joined The Conversation in 2018 after internships at Mongabay and The Press Association. He has a research background in marine biology and began his media career at university, where he reported on a fossil fuel divestment campaign for his campus paper. Jack edits the Environment + Energy section and is interested in climate change, biodiversity and animal behaviour. He is based in Newcastle.

Mona Mashhadi Rajabi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Technology Sydney Business School. Her research covers sustainability, resilience, environmental finance, environmental policy, and the impacts of climate change on companies, industries and markets.

Kaitlyn Matulewicz is Researcher, Governing Forced Labour in Supply Chains Project.

Deirdre McKay holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of British Columbia (1999). She works on development and migration. She has worked with Canada's international development agencies - CIDA and the International Development Research Centre - as both field researcher and intern and collaborated with the Australian Agency for International Development. McKay works with arts-based and community-centred methods. With an AHRC project, Curating Development, She has been exploring community arts methodologies to map migrants' contributions to the Philippines. arts charity, B Arts, to develop hands-on activities to help the public address the problems of waste plastics.

Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA is an award-winning design historian who works at University of Technology Sydney. His inter-disciplinary research examines the past, present and future of critical fashion as well as many other aspects of design. For a decade he was also Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University where he worked to establish the dignity of this topic in the European university system. More recently he was Academy of Finland (FiDIPro) Distinguished Professor, Aalto University (2014-18) for ‘Costume Methodologies’. His many publications include the award-winning ‘The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives’, 2010 (with G. Riello); and ‘Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Renaissance to the Present Day’ (4 Vols. 2009). His monograph ‘‘Pretty Gentlemen’: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World’ was published by Yale University Press in 2018: Marina Warner named it a ‘Book of the Year’. McNeil writes for major exhibitions including Sydney Jewish Museum (‘Dressing Sydney’), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (‘Reigning Men’) and Kunsthaus Zurich (‘Fashion Drive’). He won a UTS Human Rights Award in 2018 for his work on LGBTQI visual culture. He is Past President of the AAANZ representing Art History in the region.

Footwear manufacturer, brand custodian, social entrepreneur, brand consultant, Divej Mehta, at 30 years is the Founder and Managing Director of Tergus Works Pvt Ltd (TWPL), the company that launched Inmate. Inmate is now a brand partner with the United Nations, and Mehta has also been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 for social entrepreneurship along with recognition from the Government of India through Dr APJ Abdul Kalam award for being an innovative game changer.

Alessandra Mezzadri is Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University of London.

Valérie Moatti is Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School.

Gwyneth Moore has spent more than 25 years working in public relations, marketing and communications. She has worked with a number of international brands spanning many sectors including fashion, technology and construction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Communications from the University of Western Australia and studied Fashion Design and Illustration at East Sydney Technical College (now National Art School).

She has worked as a lecturer in fashion promotion, design and brand development, social media, digital fashion and the digital workplace. She is currently Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Marketing and BA (Hons) Fashion Design courses at the University of South Wales in Cardiff.

Gwyneth has been an active fashion blogger for a number of years at www.cardifffashion.com and is a regular contributor on national radio.

Gwyneth is the author of the Bloomsbury title - Fashion Promotion: Basics Fashion Management 02: Fashion Promotion – building a brand through marketing and communication