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Ben Wubs
Ben Wubs is professor of international business history at ESHCC, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and an appointed project professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. He is engaged in various research projects related to multinationals, business systems, transnational economic regions, Dutch German economic relations and the transnational fashion industry. His publications include International Business and National War Interests. Unilever between Reich and Empire (Routledge, 2008); (with Ralf Banken), The Rhine Economy. A Transnational Economic History (Nomos, 2017); and (with Regina Lee Blaszczyk), The Fashion Forecasters: The Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is a council member of the European Business History Association. From 2013 to 2016, he was a principal investigator of an EU-funded (HERA II) research project into the transnational connections of the European fashion industry since 1945.