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Daniel Gros is Director of the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.

Between 2020 and 2022 he was Distinguished Fellow and Member of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Before that, was the director of CEPS from 2000. In 2020, he held a Fulbright fellowship and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In March-June, 2022 he was visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence.

Gros is also currently an adviser to the European Parliament. Previously he worked at the International Monetary Fund and collaborated with the European Commission as economic adviser to the Delors Committee, which developed plans for the euro. He has been a member of high-level advisory bodies to the French and Belgian governments and advised numerous central banks and governments, including Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the highest political level.

He has published extensively on international economic affairs, including on monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates, banking, and climate change. He is the author of several books and editor of Economie Internationale and International Finance. He has taught at several leading European universities and contributes a globally syndicated column on European economic issues to Project Syndicate. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Sir Jonathan Faull KCMG is Chair of European Public Affairs at the Brunswick Group. He's former Director General in the European Commission. Author of many articles on European law and policy and co-editor of a leading work on European Competition Law. Visiting Professor at King’s College London and College of Europe, Bruges; Emeritus Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Board Member/Fellow, Centre for European Reform, Institut Jacques Delors, Centre for Competition Policy, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, European and International Analysts Group.

Francesco Nicoli is assistant professor of political science at the Politecnico Institute of Turin. He also serves as professor of political economy at Gent University and he is affiliate fellow at the department of economics of the University of Amsterdam as well as visiting fellow at Bruegel.

He holds a PhD in political economy, and his research focuses on the role of long-term, fundamental socioeconomic challenges (such as technological change and globalization) in shaping processes of integration at European and international level. His work has appeared on leading scientific outlets such as the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP), the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), Economic Policy, European Union Politics, the European Journal of Political Economy, Policy and Society, the European Journal of Public Health, Comparative European Politics, and others. He specializes in experimental survey research, econometric analysis, counter-factual methods, as well as a range of theory-based approaches.

Giuliano Amato is a President emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court. Member of Parliament for 18 years, as well as Minister of the Interior, he served two terms as Minister of the Treasury and two terms as Prime Minister. He was also Chairman of the International Commission on the Balkans from 2003-2005, and Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe from 2002-2003.

Senem is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center. She is currently based at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin as a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow.

Her main research interests include European Foreign Policy, Turkish Foreign Policy, EU-Turkey Relations, discourse studies and identity in International Relations and particularly in European Foreign Policy. Senem has also conducted research and published in the field of International Democracy support, both in the context of European Foreign Policy through enlargement and Turkish Foreign Policy.

She holds a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Boğaziçi University.

Mario Monti is the honorary president of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. He is a former Prime Minister of Italy, a former European Commissioner, and he is also a Senator for life. He has been Rector and President of Bocconi University.