Aminoff has founded several luxury brands and written several books about luxury. UHNWI Luxury Events offers luxury events. Luxury Sales Academy coaches luxury brands and individuals, and Lux Sales Lounge is a luxury brokerage.

Andrea Bookhagen is a lecturer in the field of marketing and fashion management at HTW Berlin (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft). Her field of research is on branding and sustainability. As a market researcher and consultant she works with brands in the consumer goods industry as well as in the fashion industry.

Eleonora Cattaneo is Senior Lecturer and Head of the MA in Luxury Brand Management at Regent’s University London. Her research interests focus on the management of iconic brands and luxury consumption. She has extensive consulting experience in a variety of industries including automotive, fashion and non-profit. Previously she taught at SDA Bocconi and was visiting lecturer at EM Lyon and the Helsinki School of Economics.

Glyn Atwal is Associate Professor of Marketing at Burgundy School of Business (BSB), an international Graduate School of the French network of Grandes Ecoles. Glyn’s teaching, research, and consultancy expertise focuses on marketing and strategy within the affluent and luxury space. He is responsible for the Luxury Brand Management and Luxury Entrepreneurship specializations at BSB. His recent research has focused on the luxury market in emerging markets. He is co-editor of The Luxury Market in India: Maharajas to Masses (Palgrave Macmillan) and Luxury Brands in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan). He recently co-authored a new book, Luxury Brands in China and India (Palgrave Macmillan). Glyn presents regularly at industry conferences and was a panelist at Arab Luxury World 2019. Prior to academia, Glyn worked in industry for Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam, and Publicis.

Silvia Fossati studied Strategic Communications and Planning at the University of Arts, Berlin. She began her career in Public Relations, focusing on Digital Marketing & Communications across the Italian and German interior design and fashion industries. In 2016, she joined Polimoda as a lecturer in Digital Strategic Planning and Digital Marketing. She was a speaker at several events, discussing fashion start-ups and creative industries. Fossati is the author of “Myth and Innovation. Re-Edition of Design Classics” (2014, German edition).

Nicoletta Giusti PhD is an academic with more than 20 years of research and teaching in the fields of Luxury, Fashion and Design, from the Bachelor level to MBA, in several Business Schools and Universities in Europe. She comes from family business in luxury menswear founded in 1887 and has a wide range of professional and entrepreneurial contacts in the Luxury and Fashion industry. She has worked as a consultant for several fashion firms and is Professor Ambassador for the Program LVMH INSIDE 2018.

Dr. Marika Taishoff is currently the Director of the Executive and Full-Time MBA programs at the International University of Monaco. Her area of academic and consulting expertise has long been Services Management, Quality and Marketing, in particular in the Luxury sectors. She has designed and delivered a variety of courses in these topics at the Masters, MBA and Executive Education levels. Prior to joining IUM, Marika worked at such internationally renowned business schools and management education institutions as IMD (The International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland; Imperial College Business School at the University of London; and Bocconi University Business School in Milan. Originally from New York City, where she completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University, Dr. Taishoff has written numerous case studies on best practice in service management and marketing. Many of these cases have been global award winners, and in 2015 Dr. Taishoff was honored by the Case Center as one of the “Top 40 Case Writers in the World”.

Professor Julien de Grandbois teaches Bachelors & Masters of International Business Administration on “Entrepreneurship” at BSL Business School Lausanne, a leading innovator in business education. Professor de Grandbois established several start-ups and managed multinationals in private banking, universities and information technology as well as global brands in fields of bio foods, pharma, project fundraising, edu grants and e-trading platforms. He designed a Master program for universities and audited 495 universities of Europe on external relations and communication strategies development. Chosen as UN Panel Moderator for Environmental Summits and rose to high corporate managership. He coached new entrepreneurs and advised leaders of family corporations, intermediated for global groups, lectured on 5 continents guiding CEO’s on change & innovation in ‘clean techs’ and start-ups. Elected 6 times Municipal Councillor to Legislatures in Geneva, he chaired public works development. Enthusiastic pillar of the IUM Mark Challenge, Julien de Grandbois serves as member of the First Jury.

After years working with the major fashion brands for the fragrances and cosmetics industry, either with advertisers or in agencies, I wanted to share my expertise of the world of luxury. That’s why I designed 8 years ago for the EBS Paris , a specific program that would allow interested students to join this ever-changing sector, to understand it in order to better develop, manage or create a company in this particular field.

Alessandro Brun has a PdD in Management Engineering, and is Associate Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. He is teacher of Quality Management, and Director of two Masters in Luxury Management at MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Management. He is a very prolific scientific author, having published - between 2000 and 2020 - more than 200 papers on scientific journals, books and book chapters. In particular his publications on the topic of Luxury Supply Chain are widely quoted. His interest for the Fashion & Luxury Supply Chain was lately focused on the specific topic of Sustainability. He is the founder of the “Sustainable Luxury Academy”, a cultural initiative involving companies active on the challenges of Sustainability in the Luxury Fashion sector. Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Milanese-based niche perfumery brand MASQUE Milano, he can apply the theories developed in his academic job to a real case.

Bilal has considerable expertise in business development and project management, in areas such as healthcare, events management and family businesses. He presently leads the Consultancy Project course with Les Roches’ MBA students, working on a real-life strategic challenge provided by international brands.

Julia Riedmeier is a lecturer in the field of luxury management (Munich Business School) and market research (International University of Monaco). As founder and managing director of a strategic consultancy for luxury brands, she closely works with company leaders on luxury strategies – mainly in the area of digital and neo-luxury concepts.