José Miguel Ahumada is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile. He has a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

David Barmes is a Policy Fellow at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, where he focuses on sustainable central banking, financial supervision, and macroeconomic coordination.

Gaston Bronstering researches the role and influence of index providers for economic decision-making at the International Relations Department, LSE. He has worked as a researcher at the academic think tank Sustainable Finance Lab associated with the Utrecht School of Economics and experience and conducted research for the United Nations Environment Programme.

Valeria Cirillo is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Department of Political Sciences). She is external affiliate of the Institute of Economics at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. Since 2023, she has been Associate Editor of the Italian Economic Journal (Springer), and as of 2025, she is also Associate Editor for Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (Elsevier).

Marialuisa Divella is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, and a member of the board of the PhD program in Political and Social Sciences for Security and Development. Her research explores the economics of innovation, science and technology policy, industrial organization, and regional development, with a focus on the interplay between technological change and labour market dynamics.

Eustachio Ferrulli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bari, specializing in labour market inequalities, education policy, and equality of opportunity. His work examines the intersection of economic disparities, skills development, and labour market outcomes, with a focus on European contexts.

Lidia Greco is Full Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of Bari, Italy. Her main fields of interest are economic and industrial development, labour market and policies, gender and third sector. Lidia has worked and studied in various EU universities and research centres and at Duke University, USA. She served as a member of the Italian Society of Economic Sociologists – SISEC. 

Béla Galgóczi is a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels. He has published in European Journal of Industrial Relations and writes extensively on employment, social policies, and sustainable development.

Dario Guarascio is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Law at Sapienza University Rome. He holds a PhD in Economics. His working areas are Economic policy, Economics of innovation, Development and labor economics, Growth theory, Evolutionary economics, Econometrics, European studies.

Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies where he leads the macro research group. He completed his habilitation in economics (venia legendi) at Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he also obtained his PhD. His main research interests spawn macroeconomics, public finance, political economy, meta-analysis and meta-science.

Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance (IIPP) at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. He studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Marburg. He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy. In 2023, his book (with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo), How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy (Yale), won the Academy of Management’s George R. Terry Book Award.

Karin Küblböck is an economist and senior researcher at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research, with a focus on natural resource policies, private sector development, international trade and investment policies. She is also a mediator and professional facilitator. She regularly lectures on her topics at different universities and carries out research and consulting projects for public and private institutions.

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She is the author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023).

Simela Papatheophilou is a legal scholar and development researcher at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research. She investigates how international law influences development and how development policy is reflected and implemented in legal instruments.

Wolfgang Polt is a former Director at the Centre for Economic and Innovation Research, Joanneum Research, and a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has extensive experience of supporting evidence-based science technology and innovation policy.

Werner Raza is Director of the Austrian Foundation for Development Research. His research focuses on development economics and policy, international trade, GVC analysis and industrial upgrading, with a regional focus on Europe, Latin America, as well as Northern and Eastern Africa. He has lectured at several universities and colleges in Europe and been a member of various advisory committees in the fields of foreign trade promotion, development finance and development policy.

Christian Reiner has a doctoral degree in economic geography (University of Salzburg) and experience in basic and applied empirical economic research (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Joanneum Research, Institute for Advanced Studies). Christian Reiner works as a senior scientist at the Lauder Business School and as a lecturer in economics & economic geography. His fields of interest include structural change, growth policy, innovation, human capital mobility, industrial policy, green growth, and policy evaluation.

Jelena Relic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Law at Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a PhD in Economics. Her research primarily focuses on the economics of innovation, labour economics and economic policy, and has been published in various international peer-reviewed journals.

Christa Schlager is an economist and Head of the economic policy department at the Chamber of Labour, Vienna. She has written extensively on European industrial policies, fiscal issues, climate policies, and gender issues.

Viktor Skyrman is a political economist and postdoctoral researcher based at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, and the EUI, Florence. His work has appeared in New Political Economy, Competition & Change and The Journal of Development Studies, among others.

Agnieszka Smoleńska is a Senior Policy Fellow at the LSE Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx) leading the work on transition planning in the financial sector. She joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment as a Visiting Fellow in 2023.

Michael Soder (PhD) works as an economist in the Economic Policy Department of the Vienna Chamber of Labour. He is a lecturer at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna.

Fernando Sossdorf is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies (IEI), University of Chile, focusing on international political economy and industrial policy. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Journal of Trade Policy. Previously, he worked in the Division of Production, Productivity, and Management at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Roman Stöllinger is Assistant Professor at Economics of Technology and Innovation (ETI) section of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Before that he was working as an economist at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), where he is still associated as a Senior Research Associate. He also works regularly as an expert for industrial development for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). 

Bernhard Tröster is an economist (PhD) with a specialization in international development and financial markets. He is a senior researcher at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research with a focus on international trade and commodities & development. In addition, he is an external lecturer at several universities in Austria.

Francesco Zezza is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economics and Law of Sapienza University of Rome. He holds a Ph.D.in Economics from the University of Siena, and an MA in political economy from Kingston University of London. His research interests include theoretical and applied Stock-Flow Consistent Macroeconomic modelling, Economic Policy, Monetary Economics, and Regional Economics.