Jens Weidmann – President, Deutsche Bundesbank; Member of the Governing Council, European Central Bank (ECB)

Beatrice Weder di Mauro – President, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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

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

Mame-Fatou Niang – Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University

Ana Lucia Araujo – Professor of History, Howard University

Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University