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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. 

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.

Carmine Russo is a PhD Student at the University of Naples Federico II.

Irene Monasterolo is full professor of Climate Finance at Utrecht University School of Economics, and research fellow at SUERF and at the Institute Louis Bachelier. 

Antonia Pacelli is a PhD student in Economics at University of Naples Federico II. Double Degree Master, graduated in Economics, majoring in Policy, at Católica-Lisbon and University of Naples Federico II.

Marco Pagano is a Professor of Finance at the University of Naples Federico II. His research is in the areas of banking, corporate finance, and market microstructure, and currently focuses mostly on issues at the interface between labor and finance. 

Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of economics at the London Business School and an external fellow at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel. She is a macroeconomist and econometrician. She has pioneered methods for the economic analysis of large dimensional data and now-casting and co-founded the company now-casting limited in 2011. She was director general of research at the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2008. Professor Reichlin is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, an honorary international fellow of the American Economic Association and a distinguished fellow of the CEPR.