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Massimo Bordignon is currently full professor of Public Economics at the Catholic University of Milan. He worked as a consultant for several national and international institutions and acted as a member of several technical commissions within the Italian Government. He is currently member of the scientific committee of the High Commission on Fiscal Federalism (Ministry of Treasury) and President of the Committee on Public Expenditure of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Since 2011, Beda Romano has been the correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore in Brussels, covering European affairs. Previously, from 2000 to 2011, he was the correspondent from Germany. He has contributed to numerous international publications, including Le Point, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Challenges.

Marco Ventoruzzo is Full Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Markets Regulation. His research interests cover corporate law, corporate governance, financial structure of business organizations, securities regulation, and takeovers.

Carlo Bastasin is Senior Fellow at LEAP and at Brookings Institution (Washington). Since 2014 he has taught European Economic Governance at Luiss University. He is a columnist for La Repubblica. Among his latest books are The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy with Gianni Toniolo (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Journey to the End of the West (Luiss University Press, 2019) and Saving Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).

Sergio De Nardis studied at the Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Essex in England. He was a researcher at Isco, senior economist at the Confindustria Study Center, director of macroeconomics at Isae, Chief economist at Nomisma, and director of Macroeconomic Analysis at Upb (Parliamentary Budget Office). He is a member of the scientific committee of the Masi FoundaMon, of the Istat research laboratories, of the Advisory board of the Italian Economy journal, and of the editorial board of Inpiù. He has been a member of the editorial board of the ICE Report, the Journal of Economic Policy, and the scientific committee of l'Industria. He has held teaching positions at the Luiss-Guido Carli University, the University of Urbino, and the Higher School of Economics and Finance. He is the author, alone or in collaboration, of essays published in Italian and international academic journals and of monographic volumes on the issues of privatization, on the labour market, on the model of specialization, and on the behaviour of firms in international integration.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi holds a degree in Economic Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D in Economic Sciences from the University of Chicago. He began his career in 1983 as an economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Italy. In 1994, he was appointed Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute.

In October 1998, he took up the position of DirectorGeneral of International Financial Relations in the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He was Chairman of SACE from 2001 to 2005. From June 2005 to December 2011, he was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

From 2012 to 2016, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of SNAM (Italy). From 2016 to 2019, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Italgas (Italy). He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Societe Generale since 2015.