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Sascha Steffen is Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and DWS Senior Chair in Finance.
His research is in the area of banking, corporate finance and financial intermediation. Recent work analyzes the causes and consequences of the European banking crisis and its implications for firms’ financing and investment opportunities.

Junior Economist at Assonime

Pascal Durand is a lawyer. After co-founding the French Europe Ecologie les Verts in 2008, he directed the 2009 European elections campaign and was elected in the European Parliament under the green banner in 2014. He was re-elected for a second mandate in 2019. During this second mandate, he was a rapporteur on the revision of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, an ambitious legislation bringing clarity on companies’ disclosure obligations concerning the social and environmental impacts of their operations.
 

Elena Gramano currently hold the position of Assistant Professor of Labour Law at the Department of Legal Studies, Bocconi University. Prior to this, she served as a Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Labour and Civil Law, from 2017 to 2019, and at the University of Roma Tre in 2020.

Her research has long focused on European Labour and Social Law. In 2022, she published an article in the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, examining the legal status of self-employed workers within the European Union. 

Additionally, she has contributed to the European Labour Law Journal, where she has explored the concept of the "worker" and the subjective scope of labour law under EU law, as well as the fragmentation of working time in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Elena has also published an article in the Contemporary Social Science Journal on the regulation of platform work.

Sir Julian King is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, Fellow of RUSI and the Oxford Internet Institute. He was the last British European Commissioner, serving as EU Commissioner for the Security Union from 2016-2019, with responsibility for counter-terrorism, cyber security, tackling hybrid threats, disinformation, and securing critical digital infrastructure. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1985.  He has held various positions, including:  UK Ambassador to France (2016); Director General Economic & Consular (2014); DG of the Northern Ireland Office London and Belfast (2011); UK Ambassador to Ireland (2009); EU Commission Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner for Trade (2008); UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee, (2004). Sir Julian is a graduate of Oxford University and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris.