Giacomo Benedetto holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before moving to his current post, he held a lectureship in European Politics at the University of Manchester. He was awarded a PhD in Political Science by the London School of Economics, the subject of which was “Institutionalised Consensus in the European Parliament”. He teaches university courses on the history, theory, political development, budgets, and public policy of the European Union. He is a co-author of the Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the EU Budget prepared for the EU's High Level Group on Own Resources, and he has authored briefings and provided evidence on the EU’s budget for the Budgets and Budgetary Control Committees of the European Parliament. He has published on matters concerning the EU budget in scientific journals, and he has co-edited with Simona Milio a collection of essays on the reform of the EU budget published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2012.

Ana is the head of the Behavioral and Experimentation Unit (UCEx) at the National Public Policy Lab. She is professor of Rational choice and Economics at CIDE. She specializes in the study of rationality and behavioral sciences for public policy design. She is experienced in the analysis of financial inclusion with several publication on the topic. Ana worked as a consultant at IMCO (a leading Mexican think tank) and in the private sector. Her study on skin-color discrimination in bank branches was awarded the National Public Policy Price in 2018. Ana holds a B.A. in Economics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, a Master in S.C. on Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a PhD. in Public Policy at CIDE.

Eleftherios Giovanis studied economics at the University of Thessaly. He completed the M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Finance at the University of Macedonia and the M.Sc. in Quality Assurance at the Hellenic Open University in 2009. He completed his PhD in economics at the Royal Holloway University of London. He was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Individual Fellowship at the University of Verona in 2015 and worked as an assistant professor in economics at Adnan Menderes University in 2017. In 2018-2021 he worked as a Senior Lecturer of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University, and in 2019-2021 he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Adnan Menderes University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Izmir Bakircay University.

Christian Lambert NGUENA, PhD is a Senior Researcher and a University Associate-Professor who capitalizes on more than 13 years of work experience; additionally, he owns more than 15 years of leadership and administration with an extensive work with international organizations such as for example the World Bank, the European Commission, the African Development Bank, the United Nations, the African Capacity Building Foundation. Jointly to this, he is currently the Secretary General of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists since 2018 and the President of the Association of African Young Economists since 2013. He is member of several international recognized scientific societies including the Econometric society, the CEDIMES, the African Finance and Economic Association, the International Economic Association. During his professional career, he have won many fellowship competitions and awards including: the University of Fribourg research fellowship (2009), the United Nations research fellowship (2011), the IDRC/Trust Africa research grant (2012), the World Bank Group research fellowship (2013), the International Economic Association fellowship (2015), The Sweeden Nordic African Institute (2019). He is author of many scientific papers in per reviewed and classified journals, and he is currently editor board member of several ranked journal including the Journal of Management and Sustainability and reviewer for African Development Review among others.