Marco Buti – Head of Cabinet, European Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Taxation

Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

Daniela Schwarzer – Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Foundation

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Elizabeth Carter – Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Aleksandra Sojka – Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid; CES Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, Harvard University