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Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he co-directs the NBER Political Economy Program, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He currently is a Co-Editor at Econometrica. Before joining UC Berkeley, Trebbi was Canada Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2006.

Francesco Trebbi's academic research focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. He has worked on political institutions and their design, elections, political behavior, campaign finance, lobbying, regulation, housing markets, and banking. He has also worked on the political economy of development, ethnic politics, and conflict. Francesco has also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict. He also has interests in Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.

Ignazio Angeloni is a part-time professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt.

In 2019-2022 he was Senior Research fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the ECB Supervisory Board.

In 2012-2013, Ignazio was Director General for Financial Stability at the ECB; in that capacity he coordinated the establishment of the new banking supervision at the ECB. Earlier he was Director for International Financial Relations at Italy’s Ministry of Finance, Deputy Director General Research at the ECB, and Director of monetary research at the Bank of Italy.

Ignazio holds a degree from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has published books and articles in leading academic journals.

Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, in Florence.  

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His main areas of research and teaching are Comparative, European, and EU political behaviour and institutions – in particular parties and party systems, public opinion and voting behaviour, electoral systems and the design of democracy, and legislative behaviour.

Federica Genovese is a Professor at the University of Oxford, Member of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow at St Antony's College.

She previously held positions at University of Essex and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She was an academic visitor at Nuffield College in Oxford and Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. Federica has a PhD from University of Konstanz and degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and University of Toronto.

Her work focuses on International and Comparative Political Economy, with particular attention to Climate Politics and Policy, Globalization, Redistribution and the Politics of Crises.

Among other projects, in 2023-27 I lead the new Varieties of Climate Vulnerabilities project, funded by a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust.

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 since 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.