Thierry Mandon – Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Republic of France

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Department of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800, CES, Harvard University; Co-Director, Program on Successful Societies, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Senior Advisor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, Manchester University; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Radosław Sikorski – Speaker of Parliament (2014-2015) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2007-2014)

Richard Tuck – Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, CES

Joachim Fritz-Vannahme – Director, Programme Europe’s Future, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Dani Rodrik – Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Theda Skocpol – Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt – Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Faculty Associate, Institute of Quantitative Social Science

Chair Bart Bonikowski – Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Populism, Nationalism, and Radical Politics, CES, Harvard University

Dante Roscini – Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School; Co-Chair, European Economic Policy Forum, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Servaas Deroose – Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Economics and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), European Commission

Thomas Wieser – President, Euro Working Group and Economic and Financial Committee, Council of the European Union

Benjamin Friedman – William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board (2002-2010), Deutsche Bundesbank

Ofer Ashkenazi – Faculty Member, History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Chairman, Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

Nadia Urbinati – Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty , CES, Harvard University; Director (1994-2001), CES, Harvard University

Welcome Remarks by Nicola De Santis – Consul General of Italy in Boston

Pippa Norris – ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Justin Gest – Assistant Professor of Public Policy , George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs

Jennifer Hochschild – Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Jon Erik Dølvik – Director, Fafo Institute for Labor and Social Research

Alexander Görlach – Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European Magazine, The European; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Berggruen Institute