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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.

Alessandro Barbera started his career at the Ap.Biscom agency and has been writing for La Stampa for over twenty years. He covers international affairs, politics, public finance, and global economics. Barbera has collaborated with Aspenia and co-authored La lunga notte dell’euro with Stefano Feltri. A finalist for the Estense Prize, in 2017 he won the State Street Press Award for an investigative report on waste management. He was a writer for In mezz’ora on Rai Tre and is currently working on XXI Secolo on Rai Uno.