Fabian Faurholt Csaba — Copenhagen Business School

Fabian Faurholt Csaba is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He holds a PhD in Marketing and Consumer Culture from the University of Southern Denmark. Drawing on Consumer Culture Theory, his research examines how value, meaning, and identity are created and contested across markets, organizations, and cultural industries. He studies the role of communication, narratives, and symbolic practices in shaping brands, markets, and consumer culture, with particular interests in luxury, fashion, advertising, and creative industries. His current research explores how value, legitimacy, and authority are constructed and contested across consumer markets, cultural industries, and luxury systems.

Prof Yasmin K Sekhon Dhillon — University of Southampton

Dr Yasmin Sekhon Dhillon works at the University of Southampton as a Professor of Luxury Marketing and Associate Dean (EDI). Yasmin’s research centres on consumer research and the cross-cultural factors that shape the meaning and experience of luxury, exploring how cultural context influences the way luxury is understood, valued, and consumed. Alongside her research, she delivers education in luxury strategy, luxury and marketing, and the history of luxury. Yasmin continues to expand her work on identity, consumption, and children’s relationship with luxury through conference participation and journal publications, and her most recent publication, Luxury and the Senses (Bloomsbury).

Monica Macias Bindang — London College of Fashion, UAL

Monica Macias Bindang, AFHEA, is an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, where she teaches and supervises postgraduate research in fashion marketing and global culture. Her research explores the intersections of luxury, symbolic power, postcolonial theory, and international relations – specifically how authority, legitimacy, and cultural value are characterised and constructed within global systems. Monica is also the author of Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity, an acclaimed memoir recounting her childhood in North Korea. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background as a Pyongyang-trained textile engineer and her MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London, her work uniquely examines how power shapes narratives of identity, culture, and global inequality across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Alice Guzzetti is a Reseach Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and Management of Cultural Heritage and Entertainment, a Master’s in Markets and Business Strategies, and a PhD in Management and Innovation from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

Since 2017, she has collaborated with the Master in Luxury Goods Management (EMLUX). Her professional background includes work at the Digital Innovation Observatories (Politecnico di Milano), academic research at the University of Milan, and consultancy in the cosmetics industry.

Her main research interests focus on technological innovation within fashion and luxury, entrepreneurship and startups, and environmental and social sustainability.

Valeria Belvedere
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / Burgundy School of Business

Valeria Belvedere is an Associate Professor of Business Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, specializing in Operations and Supply Chain Management. She holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University, a PhD from the University of Castellanza, and an MBA from MIP-Politecnico di Milano, alongside visiting research experience at the University of Bath.

At Cattolica, Professor Belvedere coordinates the MSc in Innovation and Technology Management and directs the EMLUX Master in Luxury Management. Her research explores performance measurement in production and logistics, manufacturing strategies, technology adoption, and environmental and social sustainability. Widely published in leading academic journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics, she also serves on editorial boards and as a peer reviewer.

Glyn Atwal
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / Burgundy School of Business

Glyn Atwal is Associate Professor of Marketing at Burgundy School of Business, an international Graduate School of the French network of Grandes Ecoles. His teaching, research, and consultancy expertise focuses on marketing and strategy within the affluent and luxury space. He has presented at leading universities worldwide, including Harvard Business School, and is co-editor of The Luxury Market in India and Luxury Brands in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan). Prior to academia, Glyn worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam, and Publicis.