Michèle Knodt is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair, ad personam at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

Natalia Chaban is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand, and a twice-awarded Jean Monnet Chair.

Oriol Costa is a Senior Research Associate at IBEI and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Patrick Müller is Professor of European Studies at the University of Vienna and the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria.