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Daniel Fischer is Associate Professor for Consumer Communication and Sustainability at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research studies communication and learning interventions to advance more sustainable lifestyles. In his teaching, he strives to increase reflexivity in students to empower them to re-shape their relationships with the consumer societies into which they have been born, encultured, and socialized in.

Marlyne Sahakian is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Geneva. She teaches and does research on sustainable consumption in relation to food, energy, and wellbeing, and is a founding member of SCORAI Europe, a research network for sustainable consumption. She is the director of a Master’s program called Sustainable Societies and Social Change, and strives to give the students the critical and practical competencies for tackling sustainability problems.

Jordan King is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Sustainability and College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. His work focuses on advancing innovations in cultivating and assessing the sustainability competencies of learners. In his teaching, he aims to motivate students to link inner transformations with systemic change for sustainable futures.

Jen Dyer is an Associate Professor in Sustainability at the University of Leeds and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jen enjoys using creative teaching methods to inspire and empower her students. Her research focuses on social inclusion and amplifying diverse voices around sustainability.

Gill Seyfang is Associate Professor of Sustainable Consumption in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. She researches grassroots innovations for sustainable development and is a National Teaching Fellow (2017).