Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. His most recent publications are
Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance.
Alberto Alesina is the Nathaniel Rope Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and visiting professor at IGIER Bocconi. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society. He is the director of the program in political economics at the NBER. He has been chairman of the Economic Department at Harvard and coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has published on all major economic journals and several columns in many major newspapers in including the Financial Times, and the Wall Street journal. He is a regular editorialist for Corriere Della Sera. His latest book is
Austerity: when it works and when it doesn’t (Princeton University Press 2019)
Paschal Donohoe is the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform of Ireland. He was appointed to these roles in June 2017. From May 2016 to June 2017, he served as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and from July 2014 to May 2016, as the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. He also held the position of Minister for European Affairs at the Department of An Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs from July 2013 to July 2014. Minister Donohoe is a graduate of the Trinity College Dublin, with a degree in Politics and Economics and he attended St. Declan’s CBS.
Felipe Larraín is the Minister of Finance of the Government of Chile under the administration of President Sebastián Piñera. He was Chile’s Finance Minister in President Piñera’s first administration between March 2010 and March 2014. He was also Vice President of Chile in February 2014. Larraín has a PhD (1985) and a MA (1983) in Economics from Harvard University, as well as a BA in Economics from Universidad Católica de Chile (1981). He has a vast experience as an international consultant, academic, editor and author of 14 books and over 120 professional articles, published in Latin America, USA, Europe, and Asia.

Lídia graduated from the University of Coimbra in Economics and holds a Master degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). At the age of 19, she became politically active in Juventude Social Democrata (JSD), the youth organisation of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD). Lidia started as a member of JSD in her hometown (Coimbra) and elected JSD’s Vice President at the regional level soon after. In May 2016, Lidia was elected International Secretary of JSD’s Board (2016-2018). She previously served as YEPP Vice President. After a traineeship at the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg), Lidia became a consultant in the financial sector. In November 2018, she became the first female President of YEPP. In March 2019, Lidia was announced as the second candidate in the PSD’s list for the European Elections.
Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. As General Secretary, Luca is responsible for guiding and coordinating ETUC policy. This includes high-level meetings with EU and national leaders, EU institutions and social partner organisations, representing the ETUC in international and European fora and affiliates’ initiatives, coordinating relations with affiliates and supervising the ETUC’s budget and human resources. Luca has taken part in negotiations on the European Pillar of Social Rights, the future of Europe, relaunching European social dialogue, public investment, economic governance, EU legislation and many other issues of importance to European workers. Luca Visentini has been active in the trade union movement since 1989, with experience in collective bargaining at confederation, national and sectoral level. He worked for Italian union UIL, from 1996 as General Secretary in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy and as a member of the UIL steering and executive committees.