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Giuseppe Franco Ferrari is Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University. He previously taught at Università di Teramo, at Università di Pavia and at Università Cattolica in Milano.

He was Fulbright Scholar at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He was President of Associazione di diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo (2001-2016), Member of Associazione italiana costituzionalisti (1997-2000) and of Associazione italiana di diritto comparato (2001-2021), and Vicepresident of International Academy of Comparative Law (2014-2022).

Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law and one of the leading voices on the democratization of the European Union. His research has been centered on how the law may be used to improve people’s lives, in particular through the adoption of power-shifting reforms countering social, economic, and political inequalities within European societies and beyond. He has written extensively on risk regulation, public health, consumer rights, food policy as democratic innovation, participatory and deliberative democracy.

He’s the author of more than forty scientific articles and several academic books such as 'Nudge and the Law – A European Perspective' and the more accessible Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society', which provides a timely analysis and guide to levelling the democratic playing field by empowering ordinary citizens to speak up and inform policy decisions at local, national and international level.

Dirk is an associate professor working on natural language processing and computational social science. Previously, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, got a PhD from USC, and a master's in sociolinguistics in Germany.

He is also the scientific director of BIDSA’s Data and Marketing Insights (DMI) research unit, and head of the MilaNLP lab. He has organized a conference (EMNLP 2017) and various workshops (on abusive language, ethics in NLP, and computational social science).

Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, leather-crafting, and picking up heavy object to put them back down. 

Stefano Liebman is Emeritus Professor of Law and previously was Full Professor of Labour Law (2000/2022).

Born on March 13th, 1953, graduated in Law in 1976 from Università degli Studi di Milano.

Latest academic appointments: Associate Professor at Bocconi University - 1995/2000; Full Professor at Bocconi University - 2000/2020; Head of the Comparative Law Institute “Angelo Sraffa” (now Department of Legal Studies “Angelo Sraffa”) - 2002/2003; Dean of the Bocconi School of Law - 2012/2018;

Visiting Professor at the School of Law of the Fondaçao Getullio Vargas, Saō Paulo, Brasil (2018).

Research main topics: Labour Law; Employment Law, Contract Law, Constitutional Law, European Law.

Giorgio Sacerdoti has been Senior Professor since 1 November 2013. Emeritus since 2016. Formerly tenured professor of International Law and European Law (Jean Monnet Chair since 2004) at Bocconi University (1994-2013). Formerly professor at the Universities of Milan, Bergamo, Urbino and Bari. International fellow, Aspen Institute. Visiting professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Paris and in universities in various countries. Course holder at the Academy of International Law of The Hague (1994). Former Coordinator of the Bocconi PhD program in International Law and Economics. Member of the Board of editors of the Italian Yearbook of International law and of the Editorial Advisory Board of the J. of World Investiment & Trade. 

ICSID (World Bank) Roster of arbitrators.

Formerly vice-president of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions (1995-2001). Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO 2001-2009 (Chairman 2006/2007). F. Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (2012). President of CDEC Foundation (Jewish contemporary documentation centre), Milan, since 2004. Member of the Italian Consultative Commission on Religious Freedom, (since 2000).