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Basile Grassi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University since 2017. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an Affiliate at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. I defended my PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics.

Philipp-Leo Mengel is a PhD researcher at Bocconi University and the University of Chicago. Prior to attending Bocconi, he studied at the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL), obtaining an MSc and BSc degree in Economics. Philipp-Leo is affiliated with the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi, and co-founder of the AI-based startup A-EYES. His research interests include EU Innovation Policy, Industrial Organisation and Political Economy.

Thomas Rowley is a researcher at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD in Economics at ESSEC Business School and CY Cergy Paris Université. His research focuses on international trade, productivity, competition, and the intersection of trade, industrial, and environmental policies.

Andrea Sironi is a Professor of Banking and Finance and, since November 2022, the President of Bocconi University. He was Rector from 2012 to 2016. Since May 2021 he is also President of the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (AIRC), while in May 2022 he became Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali. Until April 2022 he has been Chair of Borsa Italiana, the Italian stock exchange. 

Sironi has held visiting positions at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, at the Salomon Brothers Center, Stern School of Business (NYU), and at Sciences Po, Paris. In the past, he has been a member of the BoD of the London Stock Exchange Group, of the Intesa SanPaolo Group and of the Unicredit Group. At the beginning of his career, Andrea Sironi was a financial analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

Giorgio Di Giorgio is Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of CASMEF at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Previously, he served as Deputy Rector for Organization and Faculty (2018-21), Rector's Delegate for Corporate Relations (2017-18) and for International Relations (2003-05), Chairman of the Dept of Economics and Finance (2011-14), Dean of the Faculy of Economics and Management (2007-11) of the same University. He holds a Laurea in Economics cum laude from Sapienza University of Rome (1989) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in the City of New York (1996). His research focuses on monetary policy, financial intermediation, dynamic macroeconomics, banking and international finance and he published extensively on these topics.

Kevin Cunningham is a lecturer in politics, political strategist, and pollster. He has worked for a number of political parties, most notably leading the targeting and analytics for UK Labour. Kevin also specialises in the politicisation of immigration and worked for three years as a researcher on an EU-funded project to understand the politicisation of immigration. He runs Ireland Thinks, working principally for state bodies, academics, and political parties.