Catherine de Vries is Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. At Bocconi, she is also associated with the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the BAFFI-CAREFIN research center and the Bocconi COVID crisis Lab. In addition, she is affiliated with Nuffield College, University of Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Previously, she was Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford and theWesterdijk Chair in Political Behaviour in Europe at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and held visiting posts at University of California at Los Angeles among others. Catherine is a behavioural political scientist who designs evidence-based interventions, such as laboratory, field and survey experiments, to study some of the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as the rise of exclusionary politics, migration, Euroscepticism and political fragmentation. Next to her academic activities, Catherine has been dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion within society, through her work the University of Oxford, the European Political Science Association and now at Bocconi University. Catherine is dedicated to training aspiring societal leaders of tomorrow and advising the societal organisations of today. Instilling in her teaching, mentoring and consulting activities a commitment to curiosity for intellectual exchange and scientific rigor while at the same time an awareness that societal innovation is best achieved through a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion. In 2013, she was awarded a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum for her academic and social engagement.

Assistant Professor in Economic History - Bocconi University. My research interests are: global economic inequality in the long run; labor institutions in pre-industrial times.

Michael Howlett, FRSC (Professor) BSocSci.(Hon)(Ott), MA(Br Col), PhD (Queen's) is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in public policy analysis, political economy, and resource and environmental policy. Professor Howlett taught at Queen's University (1986-1988) and the University of Victoria (1988-1989) before coming to SFU. He was Visiting Professor (2009-2010) and Yong Pung How Chair Professor (2013-2017) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Professor at the Universita degli studi di Cagliari (2012), Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2018) and Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (2020). He is the author of Canadian Public Policy (2013); Designing Public Policies (2011 and 2019), The Policy Design Primer (2019) and co-author of Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective; (2020), Designing for Policy Effectiveness: Defining and Understanding a Concept; (2018) Application of Federal Legislation to Alberta's Mineable Oil Sands (2013), The Public Policy Primer (2010 and 2018), Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development (2009), Studying Public Policy (2020, 2009, 2003 & 1995), In Search of Sustainability (2001), The Political Economy of Canada (1999 & 1992) and Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (1997 & 2005).

Anil (Andy) Hira is a Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and the Director of the Clean Energy Research Group. The latter is designed to find policy and project solutions to aid the > 1 b. people w/o access to electiricty to shift to renewable electricity sources.