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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

Gary Mortimer is a Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at the QUT Business School. Prior to joining QUT, Professor Mortimer spent over 25 years working with some of Australia’s largest general merchandise and food retailers. In 2021, he was appointed as the Chair of the Consumer Research Advisory Committee for the Australian Retailers Association and to the Expert Advisory Group for the NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment. He seeks to bridge the gap between industry and academic research by working closely with industry partners to deliver high impact, relevant research that informs the retail sector. His current research looks at pro-social rule breaking and consumer oriented deviance in retail and service settings.

Dr Arpita Mukherjee is a Professor at ICRIER. She has over 25 years of experience in policy-oriented research, working closely with the government in India and policymakers in the European Commission and its member states, United States (US), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in East Asian countries. She has conducted studies for international organizations, Indian industry associations, non-government organisations and companies.

Her areas of expertise include trade and investment; trade agreements; services; special economic zones; economic corridors; retail and food supply chain; start-ups, entrepreneurs; e-commerce and cross-border labour mobility.  She specialises in sector and product-specific market trends, go-to market strategy, and government policies.

Dr Mukherjee has a PhD in Economics from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and prior to joining ICRIER she worked with the UK-based think tank - Policy Studies Institute and taught at the University of Portsmouth. She has over 80 publications including national and international referred journals, books and book chapters and government reports. Dr. Mukherjee is a member of various government committees and policy panels and is in the editorial board of 10 journals. She has presented her work in various conferences and seminar and is in the advisory board of industry associations and non-government organisations. She is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines.

She can be reached at arpita@icrier.res.in.

Skander Negasi worked for Messe Frankfurt from 2001 to 2010 before opening his company Trade and Fairs Consulting GmbH (TFC) in January 2011. Since then, TFC represents various large trade fair companies in diverse African countries. 

Since 2013, TFC organises various own trade fairs in East Africa with its own Kenyan company "Trade and Fairs East Africa Ltd" (based in Nairobi / Kenya). In addition, the TFEA organizes delegation trips and B2B meetings for German companies / associations and advises German companies in African affairs.

Lucy Newton is Professor in Business History at Henley Business School. Her research interests include UK retail bank history, a history of UK corporate governance and the history manufacture and marketing of pianos, all in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work on corporate governance has examined share ownership and patterns of female investing in the nineteenth century. In terms of methodology, Lucy is currently particularly interested in the use of objects and artefacts in banking history, such as art, portraiture, architecture, bank notes, war memorials and uniforms.

Quynh Do Nhu is Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University. Research interests in circular economy and sustainable supply chain management in fashion and textile sector.