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Claudia Buch is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, appointed on 1 January 2024. She is a member of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements. Claudia Buch was the Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from May 2014 to December 2023, and before she was the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), professor of economics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Tübingen, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, was awarded a doctoral degree and a habilitation (German post-doc degree) by the University of Kiel, and she studied Economics at the University of Bonn.

Postdoc Researcher, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Massimiliano G. Onorato is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bologna. After completing his Ph.D. in Economics at Bocconi University, he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University. His research interests include political economics, economic history, and economic development.

Since April 2023, Marco Buti holds the Tommaso Padoa Schioppa chair at the Robert Schuman Centre. Before joining the EUI, Buti was Chief of Staff of the Commissioner for the economy, Paolo Gentiloni. Between 2008 and 2019, he was Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission. Moreover, he has been the Commission Finance Deputy at G7 and G20.

A graduate of the universities of Florence and Oxford, he has published several books over the last two decades as well as many scholarly articles and policy papers on Economic and Monetary Union, the political economy of European integration, fiscal policies and policy mix, unemployment and welfare state reforms, the EU budget, and global economic governance.

In October 2021, he published the book 'The Man Inside – A European Journey through Two Crises', which revisits the European economic policy design and implementation over the past decade. In April 2023, he published the book 'Jean Monnet aveva ragione? - Costruire l’Europa in tempi di crisi'. In addition, he has recently piloted a research strand on European public goods.

A regular contributor to the daily 'Il Sole 24 ore', he is also a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a member of the CEPR Research Policy Network.

Giorgos Verdi is a policy fellow with the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His research focuses on the implications of critical and emerging technologies for the EU’s competitiveness, economic security, and foreign policy.