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Pier Carlo Padoan has been Chairman of UniCredit since April 2021.

He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 2014 to May 2018 and Member of Parliament from 2018 to 2020.

He has pursued a high standing institutional and academic career both in Italy and abroad. He now is retired Full Professor in Economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome and has taught at various universities such as: the University of Urbino, the College of Europe both in Bruges and Warsaw, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Universidad National de la Plata in Buenos Aires, the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and the University of Tokyo.

From June 2001 to August 2005 he was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and from 2007 to 2014 he served as Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He is currently Vice President of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Board member of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Italian Banking Association (ABI).

In 2021 he was appointed member of the Board of the Istituto Luigi Einaudi per gli Studi Bancari, Finanziari e Assicurativi (ISTEIN) and of the Committee for Corporate Governance of the Borsa Italiana. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the European Financial Services Round Table (EFR) and holds the role of member of the European Banking Group (EBG). He is also Chairman of the Comitato degli Operatori di Mercato e degli Investitori (CONSOB/COMI), member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione fra le Società Italiane per Azioni (Assonime) and of the Executive Board of the Federazione Banche Assicurazioni e Finanza (FeBAF).

In 2022 he was offered the role of Chairperson of the High-Level Group on Financing Sustainability Transition, which is part of the High-Level Groups on EU Policy and Innovation. In 2023 he became Member of the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP) and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)” and then in 2024 he became member of the Advisory Committee of the Laboratory on the Economic and Monetary Union at the European University Institute (EUI EMU Lab).

Isabell founded eupinions in 2015 as a project of Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with Catherine E. De Vries of Bocconi University and Nico Jaspers of Dalia Research (now Latana). As an expert researcher on democracy and legitimacy in the European Union, she has managed research projects on the role of national parliaments in the EU as well as the origins and impact of populism, nationalism and authoritarianism in Europe.

Isabell studied political science and economics at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Before joining Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2008, she worked as a political editor for the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

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.

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.

Dr. Samina Sultan is an Economist for European Economic and Fiscal Policy at the German Economic Institute (IW). She studied economics at the Universities of Mannheim, St. Gallen and Tübingen; she did her PhD at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include trade, trade policy, Europe, fiscal and industrial policies, and China

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.