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Ashok Som is Professor of Management Department at ESSEC Business School. Professor Som is one of the pioneering thought leaders in designing organizations and an expert in Global Strategy. His books Organization: Redesign and Innovative HRM was published by Oxford University Press (2008) and International Management: Managing the Global Corporation was published by McGrawHill, UK (2009). At ESSEC, he was the Founding Associate Dean of the full-time, one-year post experience, Global MBA program; the founder of the India Research Centre; and the founder and Director of the Global Management Programs on Luxury and Retail Management (in partnership with Indian Institute of Management [IIM] Ahmedabad). He received his PhD from IIM Ahmedabad; M.Sc and M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and bachelor's degree from Presidency College, Calcutta, India. He is passionate about case-based research and teaching. He was the winner of the EFMD Case Writing Competition 2008 in the Indian Management category. He won the Case Centre Award 2014 in the Entrepreneurship category. He is Adjunct Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad (India) and Mannheim Business School (Germany), and Visiting Professor at IIM Calcutta (India), Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand), Graduate School of Business, Keio University (Tokyo), and Tamkang University (Taiwan). His current research is on creative industries, focusing on luxury industry. He is a regular speaker in international conferences and consults with European and Indian multinationals.

Christian Blanckaert's resume establishes him as a global leader in luxury. He is currently the nonexecutive Chairman of Petit-Bateau and Advisor to the Chairman of EPI Group (J.M. Weston, Alain Figaret, Bonpoint, Champagne Piper-Heidseick and Charles Heidseick), the family holding Descours. He is also Senior Advisor of Eurazeo and a board member of Moncler. From 1996 to 2009, Blanckaert was the Chairman and CEO of Hermès Sellier and Executive Vice President of Hermès International. From 1988 to 1996 he was President of Comité Colbert (a French organization that represents 70 French luxury companies). During his career, Christian has been a consultant with the Boston-based consulting firm Harbridge House. He was Managing Director of the do-it-yourself chain Bricorama, Chairman and CEO of Thomson-Distribution, and Managing Director of the SCAC group. Christian was also for many years Chairman of the Board of the French National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD). Blanckaert was Mayor of Varengeville-sur-Mer for 21 years and is the author of six books: Les Chemins du luxe (Grasset, 1996), Portraits en Clair-Obscur (Balland, 2001), a biography of Roger Salengro (Balland, 2004), Luxe (Editions du Cherche-Midi, 2007), Luxe Trotter (2012 Editions du Cherche–Midi, 2012), and Les 100 mots du Luxe (Les Presses Universitaires de France PUF, 2012). He is a visiting professor at ESCP-PARIS. Blanckaert graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Faculty of Law of Paris, and has an MBA from INSEAD.