<b>Judith Clifton</b> is Professor and Founding Director of the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Economic Policy at the Faculty of Business & Economic Sciences, University of Cantabria, and Principal Investigator on one of the largest projects to date on Disruptive Technologies in the Public Sector, TOKEN (Horizon2020, 4 Mill EUR, 2020-24). Her areas of expertise are public services and their transformation, whilst she is also interested in Regional Development Banks, especially the European Investment Bank. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Economic Policy Reform and is Co-Editor of Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society, and Cambridge Elements in Public Policy. She also serves on the editorial boards of Policy & Society, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Utilities Policy, and Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.
<b>Daniel Diaz Fuentes</b> is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Cantabria and was Visiting Fellow at Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, from October 2019 to June 2020. He specialises in Regional Development Banks, Fiscal Policy, and Income Inequality and Innovation in Public Services. His current research interests concentrate on the transforming potential of Regional Development Banks in a multipolar world economy. Diaz Fuentes has published over 100 articles in leading international journals including: Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy & Society, Public Management Review, International Review of Administrative Science, Global Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Policy Modelling, Regional Studies, Journal of World Economy, Utilities Policy, Health Policy, Journal Regulatory Economics, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, and Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, amongst many others.
<b>David Howarth</b> is Professor of European Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg and a former Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or co-author of four monographs, a textbook, over ninety journal articles and book chapters on European political economy topics, specifically financial regulation, and Economic and Monetary Union. He has also edited or co-edited thirteen journal special editions and four books on these topics including (with Huw Macartney), 'Banking Regulation and Supervision and the Great Leap Forward in European Integration', with the journal West European Politics, 2016. His most recent monograph (with Lucia Quaglia) The Political Economy of European Banking Union was published by Oxford University Press in September 2016.