Javier graduated in Business Administration from the European Business School and continued with post-graduate work in International Marketing Strategies at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 1995, he founded Fun & Basics, specializing in contemporary fashion handbags and accessories. He embarked on a mission to create an entirely new concept that would combine his design sensibility and understanding of the fashion consumer with the latest in recycled materials. In 2013 he launched ECOALF, a company which has grown exponentially and now produces a whole range of sustainable garments with several selling points worldwide. He also founded ECOALF Foundation which is responsible for the Upcycling the Oceans project which has made an enormous contribution to ocean cleaning and waste recycling.

Director of the United Nations Population Fund Country Office in Geneva since April 2017, Mónica Ferro has dedicated the last 20 years to promoting equality, development and human rights. Mónica has several years of political career and as a tv commentator for international politics and columnist for several newspapers and magazines. She is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on the United Nations, Development Cooperation, Human Rights, Security Sector Reform and Gender Equality.

Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognized opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched during 1997 to 2014. In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 90 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular keynote speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow. Her first book "Loved Clothes Last" was published by Penguin Life, Corbaccio Editore in Italy and in France by Edition Marabou.

MODERATOR. Patrícia Barnabé studied Media Studies at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon and specialized in Fashion, lifestyle, arts and travel. She spent some time on the radio but fell in love with writing. Patrícia began to contribute to different magazines and newspapers in the late 1990s, such as Máxima, Jornal de Letras, Agenda Cultural, the extinct magazines V and Viver com Saúde, among others. She was part of the founding team of Vogue in Portugal and headed its newsroom for 15 years. In the last three years, she discovered talents and cultures around the world for Tap Air Portugal's UP magazine. Today she is a freelancer and regularly collaborates with Máxima and Must by Jornal de Negócios, in its online version, in Jornal Expresso’s magazine E, in Portuguese Soul of APICCAPS, and writes content for books, brands, projects and companies in their areas of election.