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Clemens Fuest is President of the ifo Institute, Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Executive Director of CESifo GmbH.

Clemens Fuest has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance since 2003 (head of the board from 2007 to 2010), a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Clemens Fuest is also a Board Member of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF; President August 2018 – August 2021). Furthermore, he belongs to the German-French Council of Economic Experts, the European Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of Ernst & Young GmbH. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft (Kronberger Kreis) and the Stiftung Familienunternehmen.

In 2013, he was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), in 2019 the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize for the year 2018. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy, and European integration.

Silvia Pianta holds a PhD in Public Policy from Bocconi University and is currently a Junior Scientist at EIEE. She is the deputy coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project CAPABLE. Her research focuses on environmental policy and politics. In her work, she investigates the determinants of environmental attitudes and behaviors, climate policy preferences, public attention to climate change, and the impact of environmental change on political behavior. She also works on bridging empirical research and climate mitigation modeling, focusing on how to incorporate insights from social and political science in the modeling of climate mitigation pathways.

Agathe Demarais is a senior policy fellow for geoeconomics at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of interest include the global economy, geopolitics, and sanctions. She is based in London, with frequent trips to Paris.

Stefano is President of I-Com, Istituto per la competitività, think tank he founded in 2005, with offices in Rome and Brussels. 

He is Professor of Economia Politica and Politica Economica at Università Roma Tre. He is the author of L'economia di ChatGPT.

Gloria Origgi is a philosopher, a social scientist based at the Institut Nicod (CNRS-ENS-EHESS) in Paris.

She has worked extensively on the topics of trust, reputation, and the evaluation of knowledge and science. Her research has been covered by many newspapers and media outlets, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, the BBC, and France Culture.

She writes regularly on many cultural supplements of Italian newspapers and international magazines, such as MicroMega, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Fatto, Iris, The Berlin Review of Books and has a regular blog at L'Espresso. 

Gloria Origgi is also a writer and is author of Caccia alla verità.

Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor-in-chief of The Economist (1993-2006) as well as for his books and films on Japan and Italy. 

His latest role is as co-director of a new non-profit, the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy.

Gaia Rubera is Amplifon Chair in Customer Science and Full Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University, where she is the Head of the Marketing Department. She received her PhD from Bocconi University in 2008. Gaia was the Research Manager of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California and then Assistant Professor at Michigan State University from 2008 to 2012. 

She is Co-Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and sits in the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of International Business Studies.

Elisabeth Braw is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on deterrence against emerging forms of aggression, such as hybrid and grey zone threats. She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalized economy.