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Stefano Riela is an Academic Fellow at Università Bocconi and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). His research interests include the political economy of the European Union, international trade, industrial policy, and competition policy. Previously, he lectured on the Economics of the European Union at the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury. Beyond his academic roles, Stefano served as President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand and worked as an Economic Advisor on communications regulation at the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM). He also acted as a consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during Italy’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Myriam Mariani is a Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. She earned a Ph.D. from Marche Polytechnic University and completed a two-year postdoc Marie Curie fellowship at MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology). Her research explores the micro-foundations of research productivity, with a focus on the mechanisms that drive knowledge spillovers across and within geographical areas.

Alexandros Kentikelenis is associate professor at Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences. He has written extensively on global financing for the green transition and on how global economic governance institutions can support decarbonisation objectives. 

Mattia Fochesato (Ph.D., Economics) is Assistant Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University. His research focuses on the long run determinants of income and wealth distribution across different world regions. In particular, he is currently working on the impact of climatic and agricultural changes on global wealth inequality in prehistory and the effects of plague epidemics on the late medieval and early modern European labor markets.

Gianmarco Ottaviano is Professor of Economics and Achille and Giulia Boroli Chair in European Studies at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University, where he is co-Director of the Research Unit on Globalization and Industry Dynamics of BAFFI, fellow of GREEN and IGIER, and sits in the Steering Committee of BLEST. He is also affiliated with CEP, CEPR and CREAM in London, IfW in Kiel, and GEP in Nottingham. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). During his career he has been Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna and at LSE. He is the co-author of many works in international trade, urban economics and economic geography. His publications focus on the competitiveness of firms in the global economy as well as the economic effects of immigration and offshoring on employment and wages. 

Mary is a postdoctoral researcher at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan, Italy. She holds an MSc and DPhil in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social science, data science, and environmental politics. She combines qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse complex issues related to the advancement of climate activism and policy. At EIEE, she works on the EU Horizon project CAPABLE, investigating public acceptability of environmental policy, the role of political actors, and assessments of approaches to citizen engagement.