Goutam Challagalla is the Dentsu Group Chair of Sustainable Strategy and Marketing at IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the Director of IMD's Advanced Management Program, Integrating Sustainability into Strategy program, and Strategy Governance for Boards. He has published extensively in the leading academic journals as well as in Harvard Business Review, and he has worked as a Principal at The Monitor Group. He earned a BA from Osmania University, an MBA from Arizona State University, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

Frédéric Dalsace is a professor of marketing and strategy at IMD. Prior to IMD, he was a professor at HEC Paris, where he held the Social Business Chair, sponsored by Danone, Renault, and Schneider Electric. He coauthored, with Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize, 2006), the 2015 Harvard Business Review article "Reaching the Rich World's Poorest Consumers." Before academia, Dalsace worked in industry at Michelin and for McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of HEC Paris (MSc), Harvard Business School (MBA), and INSEAD (PhD).