Simon Deakin

Simon Deakin is the Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in the economics of law and empirical legal studies, with particular reference to labour law, private law, and corporate governance. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received the ECGI and Allen & Overy prizes for his research on corporate governance.

Catherine De Vries

Catherine De Vries holds the Generali Endowed Chair in European Policies and serves as Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She is also the President of the Institute of European Policy Making @ Bocconi University and co-chair of Bocconi’s International Advisory Council. Before moving to Bocconi, she held professorships at the University of Oxford, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and visiting posts at UCLA and the University of Vienna.

Brigid Laffan

Brigid Laffan is Emeritus Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI). She joined the EUI in 2013 and retired from the role in August 2021. She was previously Professor of European Politics at University College Dublin. She also serves as President of the European Policy Centre (EPC) and Chancellor of the University of Limerick and chair of its governing body.

Peter Hall

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is a comparative political economist with wide-ranging interests in the relationship between politics and economics, issues of inequality, and the role of institutions and ideas in politics. He serves on multiple editorial and advisory boards and has received many awards for his work.