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Christine has been a professor in the Faculty of Business, Finance & Marketing at The Hague University of Applied Sciences since 1 September. She also works as an Assistant Professor in ‘User-centred Design of Business’ for the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at Delft University of Technology. This is where she studied and earned her PhD in 2014 (in combination with Utrecht University of Applied Sciences). She has extensive research experience and expertise in the areas of design, management, entrepreneurship and internationalisation in complex environments. For example, she is currently involved in the Strategic Product Design Master’s programme at the Delft University of Technology. In her work for the Design Management Network, Christine applies her experience as a Board member and network to focus on contacts between research and higher education. She is also a member of the board of an international working group on research into design management. In addition, Christine works as a reviewer and organiser for design management conferences and works together closely with such organisations as KLM, Barco, the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Luzern Hochschule and Antwerp Management School. She speaks regularly at conferences in a practical and academic capacity, both in the Netherlands and internationally.

c.s.h.delille@hhs.nl

Dr. ir. Karel Mulder studied both physics and philosophy of science, technology and society at the University of Twente. In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen for a thesis on research strategies of large companies. Afterwards he was employed as a senior lecturer at Delft University of Technology. He spent some time as guest researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona) and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2015, Mulder has been a Professor in Urban Metabolism at The Hague University of Applied Sciences

+31 (0)6 - 29 05 35 64
k.f.mulder@hhs.nl

Kim has been a professor in the Faculty of Business, Finance & Marketing at The Hague University of Applied Sciences since 1 January 2019. She also works as an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship & Organization at Wageningen University & Research where she leads the Circular Fashion Lab. Through bringing together scientists and designers, the Circular Fashion Lab contributes to the creation of new ‘categories’ of materials previously unknown in the fashion industry, disruptive technologies that re-define textile supply-chains and inspired processes of organizing that turn competitors into comparables. Kim obtained her PhD from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and has lived and worked abroad for nine years. She has extensive research experience and expertise in entrepreneurship, aesthetics and sustainability and has written award winning case studies on sustainable fashion pioneers such as Veja and Osklen. Before she embarked on an academic career, Kim was founder of the first eco fashion store in The Netherlands in 2005 and initiator of online platform Eco Fashion World. Her green wardrobe, including her up cycled wedding dress, was exhibited during the exhibition Wear I Am in 2017. See: www.wur.eu/circularfashion

+31 (0)6 - 39 08 20 85
k.a.poldner@hhs.nl

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m.custers@hhs.nl

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+31 (0)6 - 39 08 21 24
m.hillen@hhs.nl