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Emerson Michael
Michael began his career at the OECD, Paris, from 1966 to 1973. Upon accession of the UK to the EU in 1973 he joined the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where he had successive responsibilities for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, the economics of forming the internal market and later the monetary union. His last position at the Commission was as its first Ambassador to the USSR and then Russia from 1991 to 1995.
From 1996 to 1998 he was Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Michael joined CEPS as an Associate Senior Research Fellow in 1998, and has worked on a succession of projects, mainly in the European neighbourhood. These initially concerned the conflict zones of the European neighbourhood, including the Balkans, Cyprus, the Middle East and the Caucasus. More recently he has focused his work on the East European neighbourhood, with projects on Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Also concurrently on Brexit.
Hofmann Stephanie
Stephanie Hofmann holds the Joint Chair in International Relations and is director of the Europe in the World research area at the Robert Schuman Centre, both at the European University Institute. Her research revolves around organisational expressions of multilateralism, international and transatlantic security, global ordering, and national preference formation processes.
With regards to European policymaking, she has devoted a lot of attention to the ideological foundations of European security preferences, how public opinion manifests itself in this policy domain, and how European security organizations have co-evolved and impacted one another.
Colombo Paolo Andrea
Paolo Colombo is the Founder Member of Colombo & Associati.
His professional experience mainly focuses on the following areas: Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Financial Restructuring, Consulting, Fairness Opinion, Corporate Governance.
Strampelli Giovanni
Giovanni Strampelli is Full Professor of Business Law at Bocconi University. Since 2019, he is the Director of the PhD in Legal Studies. He has held visiting positions, among others, at the University of Oxford (Harris Manchester College), the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
He teaches and widely publishes in the areas of Comparative Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Accounting Law and Bankruptcy Law. His recent research focuses on institutional investor stewardship, with particular emphasis on board-shareholder dialogue, shareholder activism and sustainable finance.
Zingales Luigi
Luigi Zingales' research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system. In addition to holding his position at Chicago Booth, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. In 2014 he was the President of the American Finance Association. He is the co-host of the podcast Capitalisn't.
In July 2015 he became the director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago which he is refocusing on promoting and diffusing research on regulatory capture and the various distortions that special interest groups impose on capitalism.
Aydin-Düzgit Senem
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.
Faull Jonathan
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.
Nicoli Francesco
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.
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