Professor Dame Helen Wallace is an Academic Specialist in the Politics of European integration with recent positions at the London School of Economics and Politics, the European University Institute, and the University of Sussex.
Nikos Koutsiaras is Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Political Science and Public Administration). He also is a senior research fellow at ELIAMEP. His research interests are in political economy of growth and redistribution, macroeconomic policy, employment and labour market policy, social policy, European integration, and EMU.
George Pagoulatos is Professor of European Politics & Economy at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is Director General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). A regular columnist in the Sunday edition of the Greek newspaper Kathimerini since 2007, he served as Senior Advisor and Director of Strategy at the PM Office under Greece's two non-political prime ministers (2011-12). He holds a Law degree from the University of Athens, M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar.