Daniel Langer is the CEO of Équité, a global luxury strategy consultancy, and the author of the Équité Luxury Report 2026 to 2030, a five-year forecast for the luxury industry. Recognized as one of the "Global Top Five Luxury Key Opinion Leaders to Watch" and described by The Economist as "an authority in luxury," he is Executive Professor of Luxury Strategy and Pricing at Pepperdine University in Malibu and Professor of Luxury at NYU, New York. He has authored best-selling books on luxury management in English and Chinese, hosts the podcast The Future of Luxury with Dr. Daniel Langer, and is a global keynote speaker whose analysis has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Economist, the New York Times, and on Bloomberg TV and the BBC. Follow Dr. Langer on Instagram and on Substack.