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Thomas J. Schoenbaum is presently the Harold S. Shefelman Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan and his PhD degree from Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (UK). He is also Research Professor of Law at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is a practicing lawyer, admitted in several U.S. states and before the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was Associate Dean at Tulane University in New Orleans.

For twenty years he served as Dean Rusk Professor and Executive Director of the Dean Rusk Center at the University of Georgia. He lived in Japan for 10 years, teaching as Professor of Graduate Studies at the International Christian University.

Professor Schoenbaum lectures all over the world and is the author of many books and articles on International Economic Law, Business Law, International Environmental law and Maritime Law.

Giuseppe Nicoletti is currently Senior Fellow at the LUISS Lab of European Economics (LLEE), LUISS University (Rome, Italy). As an OECD consultant, he supervises a task force supporting G7 work for the Italian Presidency and has recently contributed to the extension of the OECD Product Market Regulation indicators to digital markets. He is also a board member of the French National Productivity Board established to monitor productivity issues and developments in compliance with EU Council recommendations.

In the past, he has headed the Structural Policy Analysis Division at the OECD Economics Department from 2004 to 2021, where he was in charge of cross-country structural studies. He supervised research in several areas, including productivity, digitalisation, finance, labour markets and green growth, and shared responsibility for creating and managing the OECD Global Forum on Productivity. He coordinated the OECD Economics Department team that supported the Italian Presidency of the G20 in 2021, providing inputs on intangibles, online platforms, digitalisation and productivity.

His current research interests revolve around the drivers of productivity with a special focus on the role of intangibles and digital technologies. Giuseppe previously worked as senior economist at the OECD and at the Italian Antitrust Authority. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.

Elisabeth Braw is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on deterrence against emerging forms of aggression, such as hybrid and grey zone threats. She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalized economy. 

Stefano is President of I-Com, Istituto per la competitività, think tank he founded in 2005, with offices in Rome and Brussels. 

He is Professor of Economia Politica and Politica Economica at Università Roma Tre. He is the author of L'economia di ChatGPT.

Gaia Rubera is Amplifon Chair in Customer Science and Full Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University, where she is the Head of the Marketing Department. She received her PhD from Bocconi University in 2008. Gaia was the Research Manager of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California and then Assistant Professor at Michigan State University from 2008 to 2012. 

She is Co-Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and sits in the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of International Business Studies.

Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor-in-chief of The Economist (1993-2006) as well as for his books and films on Japan and Italy. 

His latest role is as co-director of a new non-profit, the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy.