Ben Wubs is a Professor International Business History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is engaged in various research projects related to multinationals, taxation, business systems, transnational economic regions, and the global fashion industry. He is Programme Director of an Erasmus Mundus master GLOCAL. Forthcoming book (co-authored with Pierre-Yves Donzé): Capitalism’s Favorite Child: Global Fashion Business since 1850 (Bloomsbury, 2026).

Yoko Isozaki is a retail consultant bridging niche foreign luxury brands and Japanese channels, and a member of LuxModa Consulting, a Kyoto-based boutique consulting firm. She has management experience in the retail divisions of French and Italian luxury brands. In parallel, she is a PhD candidate at The University of Osaka. She holds an MBA in Design, Fashion, Luxury Goods Management from Università di Bologna. She has published a co-authored article in the Journal of Global Fashion Marketing.

Rika Fujioka is Professor of Retail History at The University of Tokyo, Japan. Her recent research concerns the changing competitiveness of retail and apparel companies under globalisation. Her publications include, “The Formation of a Technology-Based Fashion System, 1945-1990: The Source of the Lost Competitiveness of Japanese Apparel Companies” (Enterprise and Society, 22(2) 2021, with Pierre-Yves Donze), and Global Luxury (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 edited with Pierre-Yves Donze).

Kazuki Ide (RPh, MFA, MSc, PhD) is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University. His broad research interests include scholarly communication/open science, public health/health informatics, and Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI)/Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). He applies these ELSI/RRI perspectives across diverse domains, including the fashion industry.