Ioanna Tourkochoriti – Lecturer Above the Bar, School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway

Ivana Isailovic – Emile Noel Fellow 2016-17, NYU School of Law; Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern University; CES Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Real Colegio Complutense; CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Gaële Goastellec – Professor of Social and Political Science, University of Lausanne; Visiting Scholar 2017-2018, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Francis J. Ricciardone – President of the American University in Cairo; United States Ambassador to Turkey (2011-2014)

Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Professor of Government, Harvard University; Author of New York Times Bestseller "How Democracies Die"

Laura Robson – Professor of History, Portland State University

Chair Kristin Fabbe – Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School; CES Local Affiliate and Study Group Co-Chair, Harvard University

Joaquín Almunia – European Commissioner for Competition (2010-2014); Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science

Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor for the Study of EU Law and Government and CES Local Affiliate and Study Group Co-Chair, Harvard University

Heleen Touquet – Lecturer, Leuven International and European Studies, KU Leuven and CES Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Jean-Michel Blanquer – French Minister for National Education (2017)

Chair Douglas Elmendorf – Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

Moderated by Julie Battilana – Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School; Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School

Ryszard Krynicki – Poet

Clare Cavanagh – Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies, Chair of the Slavic Department, Northwestern University

Alissa Valles – Poet and Translator

Steven Vogel – Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

Moderated by Susan Pharr – Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University; Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

Pedro Morenés – Ambassador of Spain to the United States

David O’Sullivan – Ambassador of the European Union to the United States

Julianne Smith – Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, Center for a New American Security

Peter Wittig – Ambassador of Germany to the United States

Moderated by Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School

Chair Douglas Elmendorf – Dean, Harvard Kennedy School