Dr Jörg Kukies has been State Secretary for financial market policy and European policy at the Federal Ministry of Finance since April 2018. He previously spent 14 years with Goldman Sachs International, beginning as an associate in the product development team in London, before becoming Head of Equities Division for Germany and Austria.
Panu Poutvaara’s main research interests are migration, public economics, and political economics. His work has been covered in titles including the Economist, New York Times, Newsweek, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the Sun, the Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, and El Español.
Jennifer has been a journalist in print, radio and television for more than 20 years, the last 10+ specialising in EU policy and legislation in the technology sector — from data protection and privacy to trade agreements; antitrust cases to copyright law; national security to public transparency. Jennifer is originally from Ireland, and after university in Northern Ireland and France, worked in Dublin as a radio journalist. After a few years, she moved to Malta to pursue a career in print media.
Monika Jones is one of Germany's leading bilingual journalists and presenters. As an English speaking news anchor at Germany's global TV broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, she is familiar to a wide international audience, especially in North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Monika is also one of Germany's leading bilingual presenters of international conferences and business events. Her regular clients include top multinational companies, government ministries, European institutions and NGOs.
Alberto Antonioni is an assistant professor at the department of mathematics of Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Spain. In 2015 he earned a PhD degree in Information Systems from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and another PhD degree in Mathematical Engineering from UC3M. Previously, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Spain, and at the Department of Economics of University College London, UK.
Natalia Fabra is Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Associate Member of the Toulouse School of Economics and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group. She belongs to the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) of the European Commission. She obtained her PhD in 2001 at the European University Institute (Florence), under the supervision of Prof.
Antonio Cabrales is Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III. Formerly, he was a professor at University College London, where he was head of department from 2017 to 2019, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is also the executive vice president of the European Economic Association and former president of the Spanish Economic Association. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Ivan Faiella is Senior Economist at the Bank of Italy. He is member of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty, of the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group, of the Network for Greening the Financial System and of the Committee for the Estimation of Natural Capital.
Odile Renaud-Basso has been General Director of the French Treasury since June 2016. An Auditor at the National Court of Accounts from 1990 to 1994, she joined the Treasury Department before being appointed in 2005 as Director of the European Commission’s DG ECFIN. She became Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council in 2010 then served as Deputy Chief of Staff to France’s Prime Minister in 2012, before becoming the Deputy Director General of the Caisse des Dépôts, Special Director for Savings Funds, in 2013. She is a Sciences-Po Paris and ENA graduate.
In her current position, Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi is responsible for various global policy initiatives on financial resilience and innovation, digital currencies, and growth and innovation. She was previously Policy Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), overseeing strategic directions and policy initiatives in Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa.