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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.

Romain Svartzman is a Research Fellow at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking (IEP@BU), a Senior Executive Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP, University College London). 

His recent and ongoing research includes: developing scenarios of ecological transition (including geopolitical factors, particularly with regard to critical metals) and assessing their macrofinancial implications; and exploring reforms of the international monetary and financial system/architecture through institutionalist and IPE (international political economy) approaches.

He completed his PhD in ecological macroeconomics at McGill University (Canada). He also holds a master’s degree in Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a degree in Economics and Law of Climate Change from FLACSO Argentina. 

Romain previously worked as: a senior economist for the Banque de France (until 2024); an environmental risk management officer for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group); and an investor in 'green’ technologies for a French venture capital firm.  

Stefano Breschi is Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, and Strategy (ICRIOS) at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pavia, and his MSc degree from MERIT, University of Maastricht.

Katheline Schubert is a Professor at University Paris 1‐Panthéon‐Sorbonne and holds an associate chair at Paris School of Economics. She is a CESifo research fellow, and co‐director of the Globalization, development and environment program at CEPREMAP. She is a member of the French High Council for Climate and the French Economic Council for Sustainable Development. She is also past‐president of the French Economic Association. Her research interests are in environmental economics, natural resources economics, dynamic macroeconomics and sustainable growth. Her most recent works are on climate economics and on energy transition. She has published on these topics in many academic journals, among which the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Energy Journal, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Public Economic Theory. She graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and earned her PhD in economics from University Paris 1‐ Panthéon‐Sorbonne.