Marcin Piatkowski – Senior Economist, The World Bank; Assistant Professor, Kozminski University

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

Alexander Görlach – Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014, CES, Harvard University

Pierre-Michel Menger – Professor and Chair of Sociology of Creative Work, Collège de France, Paris

Berna Turam – Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Sibel Bozdoğan – Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Professor of Architecture, Kadir Has University

Valérie Pécresse – President of the Greater Paris Region, France

Moderated by Muriel Rouyer – Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Thorsten Benner – Associate Director, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin

Kurt Volker – U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2008-2009)

Moderated by Joseph Wippl – Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Boston University; Former Central Intelligence Agency Officer