Ben Crum – Professor of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Carsten Brzeski – Chief Economist, Germany and Austria, ING

Chair Peter A. Hall – Professor of Government and CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

Pernille Røge – Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

Brandon Bloch – PhD Student in History and Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Javier Lesaca – Javier Lesaca, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University

Alejandro Romero – CEO, Alto Analytics

Kerstin Martens – Associate Professor of International Relations

Marshall Ganz – Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Lilian Mathieu – Senior Researcher (Sociology), National Center for Scientific Research, France; Member, Centre Max Weber, École normale supérieure de Lyon

Srdja Popovic – Co-founder and Chairman, Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies

Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History and CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

Gavriel Rosenfeld – Professor of History, Fairfield University

Steffen Mau – Professor of Macrosociology, Humboldt University and CES Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Batuhan Aydagül – Director, Education Reform Initiative; Member, Advisory Board, Mother and Child Education Foundation; Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

Matt Matsuda – Professor of History, College Avenue Campus Dean and Academic Dean, New Brunswick Honors College, Rutgers University​

Mieke Verloo – Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues, Department of Political Science, Radboud University

Yukako Otori – PhD Student in History and Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT and CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

Yohei Nakayama – Professor of European Political History, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Jacek Zakowski – Director, Department of Journalism, Collegium Civitas; Journalist and Author

Wojciech Sadurski – Challis Professor in Jurisprudence, University of Sydney

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

Yascha Mounk – Harvard University Lecturer and New America Senior Fellow

Reiko Kage – Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo

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

Elizabeth Golberg – Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Director of Smart Regulation (2002-2005), European Commission

Michael Ignatieff – President & Rector, Central European University; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

​Craig Calhoun – President, Berggruen Institute; President, Social Science Research Council​ (1999-2012)

Lynette Roth – Daimler Curator, the Busch-Reisinger Museum; Head of the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard University

Amy Beal – Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Cruz

Eric Rentschler – Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University