Dieter Plehwe – Senior Research Fellow, Inequality and Social Policy Research Unit, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

Chair Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University & CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Sam Friedman – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics

Sir Paul Tucker – Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013); Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Alberto Alesina – Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Eric Beerbohm – Professor of Government, Harvard University

Kathleen McNamara – Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Daphna Renan – Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Chair and Discussant Lawrence H. Summers – Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; President Emeritus, Harvard University

Francesco Giavazzi – Senior Professor of Economics, Università Bocconi

Federico Rampini – US Bureau Chief, La Repubblica

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University