Hayley Edwards-Dujardin is a freelance art and fashion historian and curator. She received her MA in Art History from L’École du Louvre, Paris, and her MA in Fashion Curation, from the London College of Fashion. She teaches Fashion History, Visual Culture and Fashion Sociology in Paris. Her research interests and publications cover the decolonization of fashion theory; the relationship between art and fashion; modern and contemporary fashion theory; fashion and the self; decorative arts; and fashion photography. 

Roman Köster is a Researcher at the Bavarian Academy of Science in Munich. His main research areas are the history of economic crises and the history of waste management. Furthermore, he has a long experience in business history and authored books on Hugo Boss (2011) and Seidensticker (2019). He has recently published a book on the global history of waste.

Taylor Brydges is a Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Her focus is on sustainability and the transition to a circular economy in the fashion industry. Dr Brydges earned an Honours BA in Urban Studies, an MA in Human Geography from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Human Geography from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Jörg Lesczenski studied history and sociology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and is a research assistant at the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte mbH. Numerous publications on economic history, including 100 percent Messer. The Return of the Family Business (2019) and Unternehmen Sport. Die Geschichte von adidas (2018).

Alexander von den Benken is a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn. His research and teaching focuses on consumer, mobility and business history. He is currently doing his doctorate on a family business in the automotive industry of the 1970s.

Christian Kleinschmidt heads the Institute for Economic and Social History at Philipps University of Marburg since 2009. He has numerous publications to his name, including Konsum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2021), Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Neuzeit: die Weltwirtschaft 1500-1850 (2017).

Liz Tregenza is a fashion and business historian. She works as a lecturer at London College of Fashion and also runs her own vintage business. She has previously worked as a curator and researcher for various museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum. Liz was awarded her PhD on the fashion designer Frederick Starke in 2018. She is the author of Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-1970 (2023) and editor of Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600 (2023).

Johanna Steinfeld researched and taught on issues of economic and business history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the University of Konstanz. She wrote her dissertation on the corporate organisation of the foundation company Optische Werkstätte Zeiss Jena.

Emanuela Scarpellini is full professor of Modern history at the University of Milan. She has been a visiting professor at both Stanford and Georgetown universities and is the founder and director of the research center MIC on Fashion Image and Consumer Culture. Among her publications is Italian Fashion since 1945: A Cultural History (2019).

Kai Balazs-Bartesch studied History, Political Science and American Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt until 2019 with a focus on 19th century history. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant on the project "The Hanseatic League and its Law" and in general administration. Since the end of 2019, he has been a research assistant and archive team leader at the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte.

Andrea Schneider-Braunberger received her doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1996 and has been managing director of the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte since then. She was President of the European Business History Assocation (EBHA), is a member of the Board of Governors of the Long Run Initiative (LRI) and is on the boards of various journals. Her research focuses on family businesses and banks in the first half of the 20th century. Her most recent publication is Metzler im Nationalsozialismus (2022).

Pierre-Yves Donzé is a professor of business history at Osaka University, Japan, and a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and at EM Normandie Business School, France. His research focuses mainly on the dynamics of global competition in creative industries (fashion, luxury and watches).

Mary A. Yeager is a Professor Emerita of Business and Economic History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is well known for her numerous publications on gender and feminism in the field of business history, which include the three volume edited collection Women in Business (1999).

Alice Janssens is a freelance business historian, fashion economist and project manager working between academia and industry. She is an associate lecturer at The British School of Fashion at Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) and a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) undertaking research on the Berlin fashion industry during the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Emily Brayshaw is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney who focuses on costume, fashion, and design history. Emily also works as a costume designer, speaks as fashion expert on Australian radio, and is a member of the Footwear Research Network.