Odette Lienau – Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University

Dipesh Chakrabarty – Professor of History, University of Chicago

Giselinde Kuipers – Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam

Nina Gheihman – PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

David Owen – Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton

Gerald Neuman – J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, Harvard Law School; Co-Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

Thierry Mandon – Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Republic of France

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; CES Director (2001-2006), Harvard University; Co-Chair, Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800, CES, Harvard University; Co-Director, Program on Successful Societies, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Senior Advisor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Michael Miller – Director of the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest

Georgina Waylen – Professor of Politics, University of Manchester

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Chair, Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, CES, Harvard University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University; Contributor, The American Prospect, The Nation, Democracy Journal, and Foreign Policy

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, Manchester University; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Radosław Sikorski – Speaker of Parliament (2014-2015) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2007-2014)

Richard Tuck – Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University

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

Gulay Yedekci – Member of the Turkish Parliament (CHP)

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

Jeff Kenner – Professor of European Law, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham UK

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

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Chair, Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, CES, Harvard University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University; Contributor, The American Prospect, The Nation, Democracy Journal, and Foreign Policy

Brandon Bloch – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Elizabeth Cross – PhD Student in Modern European History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Aida Vidan – Student Programs Advisor, CES, Harvard University

Elizabeth Cross – PhD Student in Modern European History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Daniel Weidner – Professor, Institute for Cultural Theory and History, Humboldt University of Berlin; Associate Director, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin

Alexander Görlach – Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European Magazine, The European; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Berggruen Institute

Joachim Fritz-Vannahme – Director, Programme Europe’s Future, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Dani Rodrik – Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School

Theda Skocpol – Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt – Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Faculty Associate, Institute of Quantitative Social Science

Chair Bart Bonikowski – Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Populism, Nationalism, and Radical Politics, CES, Harvard University

Mary Fulbrook – Dean, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences; Professor of German History and Director, UCL European Institute, University College London

Rens Bod – Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, University of Amsterdam

Dante Roscini – Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School; Co-Chair, European Economic Policy Forum, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Servaas Deroose – Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Economics and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), European Commission

Thomas Wieser – President, Euro Working Group and Economic and Financial Committee, Council of the European Union

Benjamin Friedman – William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank (2002-2010)

Søren Serritzlew – Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Ofer Ashkenazi – Faculty Member, History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Chairman, Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

Tara Zahra – Professor of History, University of Chicago

Tomasz Blusiewicz – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Paul Blustein – Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Nick Stargardt – Professor of Modern European History, Oxford University

Yves Mersch – Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank (2002-2010)

Loukas Tsoukalis – Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School

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

Aaron Donaghy – EU Marie Curie Global Fellow, Harvard, Cornell & University of Nottingham

Eva Marlene Hausteiner – Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in Political Theory, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Lauri Tähtinen – Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University; Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki

Hanna Lierse – Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacobs University Bremen; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

George Papaconstantinou – Minister of Finance, Greece (2009-2011); Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece (2011-2012)

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank (2002-2010)

Nadia Urbinati – Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Director (1994-2001), CES, Harvard University

Welcome Remarks by Nicola De Santis – Consul General of Italy in Boston

Stephen Shay – Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Pasquale Pistone – Academic Chairman IBFD; Jean Monnet Ad Personam Chair in European Tax Law, WU Vienna

Joao Nogueira – Adjunct Academic Chairman, IBFD

Reuven Aviyonah – Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, Michigan Law School

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

Rachel Friedman – Department of Government, Harvard University

Pippa Norris – ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Justin Gest – Assistant Professor of Public Policy , George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs

Jennifer Hochschild – Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

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 Magazine, The European; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Berggruen Institute

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; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University