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Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, in Florence.  

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His main areas of research and teaching are Comparative, European, and EU political behaviour and institutions – in particular parties and party systems, public opinion and voting behaviour, electoral systems and the design of democracy, and legislative behaviour.

Ignazio Angeloni is a part-time professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt.

In 2019-2022 he was Senior Research fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the ECB Supervisory Board.

In 2012-2013, Ignazio was Director General for Financial Stability at the ECB; in that capacity he coordinated the establishment of the new banking supervision at the ECB. Earlier he was Director for International Financial Relations at Italy’s Ministry of Finance, Deputy Director General Research at the ECB, and Director of monetary research at the Bank of Italy.

Ignazio holds a degree from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has published books and articles in leading academic journals.

Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he co-directs the NBER Political Economy Program, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He currently is a Co-Editor at Econometrica. Before joining UC Berkeley, Trebbi was Canada Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2006.

Francesco Trebbi's academic research focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. He has worked on political institutions and their design, elections, political behavior, campaign finance, lobbying, regulation, housing markets, and banking. He has also worked on the political economy of development, ethnic politics, and conflict. Francesco has also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict. He also has interests in Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.

Katheline Schubert is a Professor at University Paris 1‐Panthéon‐Sorbonne and holds an associate chair at Paris School of Economics. She is a CESifo research fellow, and co‐director of the Globalization, development and environment program at CEPREMAP. She is a member of the French High Council for Climate and the French Economic Council for Sustainable Development. She is also past‐president of the French Economic Association. Her research interests are in environmental economics, natural resources economics, dynamic macroeconomics and sustainable growth. Her most recent works are on climate economics and on energy transition. She has published on these topics in many academic journals, among which the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Energy Journal, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Public Economic Theory. She graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and earned her PhD in economics from University Paris 1‐ Panthéon‐Sorbonne.

Romain Svartzman is a Research Fellow at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking (IEP@BU), a Senior Executive Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP, University College London). 

His recent and ongoing research includes: developing scenarios of ecological transition (including geopolitical factors, particularly with regard to critical metals) and assessing their macrofinancial implications; and exploring reforms of the international monetary and financial system/architecture through institutionalist and IPE (international political economy) approaches.

He completed his PhD in ecological macroeconomics at McGill University (Canada). He also holds a master’s degree in Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a degree in Economics and Law of Climate Change from FLACSO Argentina. 

Romain previously worked as: a senior economist for the Banque de France (until 2024); an environmental risk management officer for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group); and an investor in 'green’ technologies for a French venture capital firm.  

Stefano Breschi is Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, and Strategy (ICRIOS) at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pavia, and his MSc degree from MERIT, University of Maastricht.