Rüdiger Bachmann

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Stepan Family College Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Rüdiger Bachmann is a Stepan Family College Professor of Economics at the department of economics at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a faculty affiliate of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He is a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a CESifo research network fellow and an external research professor at the ifo institute in Munich.

Marie Kasperek

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Executive Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law; Non Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Ms. Kasperek is the director of the Institute of International Economic Law where she executes the Institute’s national and international programming in international trade, international tax, fintech and monetary affairs by effectuating conferences, colloquia, and special events. She further spearheads external relations, while assisting in advancement efforts and student-centered fellowship certificate programs, and the execution of IIEL’s colloquium.

Anna Ashton

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Senior Director, Government Affairs US-China Business Council

Anna began her tenure at the US-China Business Council in January 2016. Since August 2019, she has served as the senior director of government affairs, developing and implementing USCBC’s advocacy on behalf of member companies. She previously served as the director of business advisory services, leading staff across USCBC’s three offices in providing member companies with analysis of China’s commercial policies, business operating environment and best practices. Anna regularly speaks at programs for business and policy audiences.

Lisandra Flach

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Director of the Center for International Economics, ifo Institute

Lisandra Flach has been director of the Center for International Economics at the ifo Institute, Munich, since July 2020. She is also Professor of Economics at the LMU Munich. After her undergraduate studies in Brazil, she received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2012 and was an assistant professor at LMU Munich from 2012 to 2020. She has been a research visitor at Harvard University, Columbia University, University of California San Diego and at the Brazilian Statistical Office.

Daniel Gros

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Director, CEPS

Daniel Gros serves as advisor to the European Parliament and is a member of the advisory scientific committee of the European Systemic Risk Board and the Euro 50 Group of eminent economists. He received a Fulbright Scholarship 2019/20 at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held positions at the IMF and the European Commission, and served as advisor to several governments. He is editor of Economie Internationale and International Finance and the author of several books and numerous articles in scientific journals.

Hernán D. Seoane

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Associate Professor, Economics Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Hernán D. Seoane has been Associate Professor at the Economics Department of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid since June 2017. Before that, he was Assistant Professor at the same University from 2011. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez. His main research focuses on International Macroeconomics and Finance, Bayesian Econometrics and Numerical Methods and his research interest are related to macroeconomic instability episodes in open and emerging economies, sovereign debt crisis and financial fragility.

Vítezslav Titl

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Assistant Professor of Law & Economics, Utrecht University

Vitezslav Titl is an Assistant Professor of Law & Economics at Utrecht University and an affiliated researcher at KU Leuven. He has received his PhD from KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Vitezslav’s research is focused on legal and political aspects of public procurement markets. His work was published in leading academic journals, such as European Economic Review. He also publishes policy-oriented articles in IDEA CERGE-EI studies and VoxEU columns.

Mihály Fazekas

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Assistant Professor, Central European University

Mihály Fazekas is an assistant professor at the Central European University, School of Public Policy, with a focus on using Big Data methods to understand the quality of government globally. He is also the scientific director of an innovative think-tank, the Government Transparency Institute, while serving as a non-resident research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Johannes Hahn

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Commissioner for Budget and Administration, European Commission

Johannes Hahn has been the Commissioner for Budget and Administration in the European Commission since 2019. He has been with the Commission since 2010, where he previously served as the European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, and the European Commissioner for Regional Policy.

Sebastian Blesse

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Researcher, Department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance, ZEW Mannheim

Sebastian Blesse is a researcher at the department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance at ZEW Mannheim and a PhD candidate at the University of Frankfurt. He studied international economics with a focus on public finance and econometrics at the Universities of Göttingen and Antwerp. His research interests lie in public finance, political economy and applied econometrics. In addition, within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 884 "The Political Economy of Reforms", he studies the decision-making behavior of political decision-makers.