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Gabriella Perotto is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in EU Law at BLEST (Bocconi Lab in European Studies – Bocconi University) and Adjunct Professor of EU Law at LUMSA University (Rome) She completed he PhD in EU law at the University of Turin with a dissertation on tax competition in the European Union and the limits on Member States’ tax powers, under the supervision of prof. Francesco Costamagna. Her main research field concerns tax competition in the EU and State aid law.

Moreover, she had the chance to broadened her research interests by focusing on other areas of EU law such as the defence sector (EU Strategic autonomy and EU defence industry) and the environmental policy. In particular, her current research project explores the impact of the fight against climate change on EU sectoral policies. Since the climate objective is perceived as a priority at European level, the research will consider how it is integrated into EU policies and balanced with the specific interests pursued therein.

Zachary Porreca is a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University. He completed his PhD in Economics at West Virginia University in 2023. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in crime, corruption, law, and emergent institutions. His recent work focuses on the interaction between violence, illicit markets, and the urban environment.

Italo is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at Bocconi University, in Milan. He works in the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He is a Research Fellow of the BAFFI CAREFIN Research Centre and of CESifo. He is a Senior Researcher of FEEM.

He teaches "Economics and Politics of the European Union", "European Economic Policy", "Macroeconomics", "Economics of European Integration", and "European Policy". His research focuses on International Trade, Political Economics, and Applied Industrial Organization.

He is the director of the Bocconi Bachelor in International Politics and Government (BIG).

Here is his Google Scholar page.

Massimo Bordignon is currently full professor of Public Economics at the Catholic University of Milan. He worked as a consultant for several national and international institutions and acted as a member of several technical commissions within the Italian Government. He is currently member of the scientific committee of the High Commission on Fiscal Federalism (Ministry of Treasury) and President of the Committee on Public Expenditure of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Eleanor Spaventa is Professor of European Union Law at Bocconi Law School, Milan (Italy). She previously worked at the law schools of Durham, Birmingham and Cambridge Universities (UK); in 2014 she held a Christopherson/Knott fellowship at the Institute for Advance Studies in Durham and a Fernard Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. Eleanor has also held various visiting appointments including Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (2009-2012).

Eleanor's research interests lie in European Union Law and in particular in the fields of European constitutional law, free movement, fundamental rights, Union citizenship and Brexit. Her work is widely referred to including by by Advocates General of the European Court of Justice and she has been invited to provide written evidence on the Lisbon Treaty by the House of Lords Constitution Committee and has submitted evidence (and was quoted in the final report) to the Ministry of Justice as part of the balance of competences review on Fundamental rights. She was also invited to give oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament on citizens' rights after Brexit.

Eleanor has authored studies for the European Parliament's PETI Committee on Article 51 of the Charter; and on Citizens' rights after Brexit.

Eleanor is an analytical expert for the MoveS network (previously FreSsco), a network of independent experts on the free movement of workers and social security funded by the European Commission to provide expert guidance in these fields; she has co-authored two reports on barriers to movement and atypical employment.