He is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Humanities Department of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches political philosophy, the history of contemporary ideas and European studies. He holds a PhD in Political Philosophy from FLUL and conducted post-doctoral research on federalism (modern and contemporary thought). He is the author of several articles and books, including: «Reason and Liberty. The Political Thought of James Madison» (Esfera do Caos, 2012), «Challenges to Democratic Participation. Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism» (co-editor, Lexington Books, 2014) and «Contemporary Political Theories» (co-editor, Documenta, 2016). He regularly contributes to the media as a political commentator on US-related issues.
Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po in Paris, she received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2008. She is the author of «Hume. Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable» (PUF: 2004) and «Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many» (Princeton University Press, 2013, winner of the 2015 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for best work in democratic/liberal theory published two years earlier). She is co-editor, with Jon Elster, of «Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanism» (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is currently researching and writing a new book provisionally entitled «After Representation: Rethinking Democracy for the 21st Century». She has published several articles based on subjects such as the consensus on deliberative democracy, the 2010-2013 constitutional process, crowdsourced policymaking in Finland and workplace democracy.
Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He has been a Visiting Professor and Fellow at many European academic institutions. His research focuses on the implications of governance transformations for democracy and accountability. His most recent books include «Democracy in Crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy» (Palgrave, 2013) and «Accountability and European Governance» (co-edited with Deirdre Curtin and Peter Mair; Routledge, 2012).
Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She specialises in contemporary political and legal theory, with a focus on civil society, sovereignty, globalisation and democracy, religion and politics. She is the author of several books and articles, including «Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory» (University of Massachusetts Press, 1982); «Civil Society and Political Theory» (co-authored with Andrew Arato) (MIT Press, 1992); «Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm» (Princeton University Press, 2002); and «Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality and Legitimacy in the Epoch of Globalization» (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is the co-editor of two volumes: «Democratic Citizenship and War» (Rutledge, 2010) and «Religion, Secularism and Constitutional Democracy» (Columbia University Press, 2016). She has published over 70 articles in journals such as «Constellations, Ethics and International Affairs, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Social Research, Political Theory, Telos and Thesis Eleven». She has also published in various legal journals and authored several book chapters. Her work has been translated into various languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Swedish.
Professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster, she studied at the universities of Louvain, Paris and Essex. She has taught at various universities in Europe, North America and Latin America and has held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. Between 1989 and 1995, she was Directrice de Programme at the International Faculty of Philosophy in Paris. She is author of the books «Gramscian and Marxist Theory», «Dimensions of Radical Democracy», «Deconstruction and Pragmatism», «The Challenge of Carl Schmitt», «The Return of the Political» (1993) and «The Democratic Paradox» (2000), as well as co-author of «Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics» (1985) with Ernesto Laclau. Her most recent work is «On the Political» (Routledge, 2005).
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy and political theory. Her most recent books include «Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy» (co-editor, 2013), «Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union» (co-editor, 2011), «Democracy in Europe» (2006) – named by the European Parliament as one of the «100 Books on Europe to Remember» in 2015 – and The «Futures of European Capitalism» (2002). Recent honours, awards, scholarships and grants include an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), the Belgian Franqui Interuniversity Presidency for foreign academics, a research grant from the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and the HORIZON 2020 grant from the European Commission: (ENLIGHTEN: «European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: The Role of European Networks» – as Lead Researcher at the Free University of Brussels).
Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.
The economic and financial crisis that began in 2008 continues to cause friction in the world. The seriousness of the situation is matched by the lack of widespread understanding of current events, as well as their origins. Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of post-war capitalism that began in the 70s. Streeck analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, expressed in inflation, public debt and rising private debt.
She has been Editor of International News and European News programmes at SIC Portugal since 2001. Between 1992 and 1997, she was primarily based in Paris and London, working for a range of organisations including Agence France Presse, le Nouvel Observateur, the BBC and CNN's European Center. From 1997 to 2000, she was a journalist at RTP Portugal. She is currently Editor of the European business programme The Europeans. She has interviewed various political leaders, writers, economists and others, including Manuel Valls, Martin Schulz, Federica Mogherini, Pierre Moscovici, Frans Timmermans, Valdis Dombrovskis, Laurent Juppé, Anne Hidalgo, Jacques Delors, Charif Majdalani, Jean d'Ormesson, Alain Fabius, Vaclav Klaus, Vaclav Havel, Carl Bilt, Manouchehr Mottaki, Bronislaw Geremek, Joschka Fisher, Margot Walstrom, Timothy Garton Ash, Niall Ferguson and Amin Malouf.
Using software to promote public debate and encourage voter engagement, she hopes to update modern democracy in Argentina and other countries. Her work focuses on how democracy must be updated for the digital age. A political scientist, she is Director of Net Democracy, a foundation which, she describes, offers «a space where citizens can come together to imagine, design and implement innovations in the political system that broaden the spectrum of democracy.»
She co-founded a political party in Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Net Democracy, or The Net Party, of which she is Executive Director. She also chairs the arteBA Youth Commission. She obtained a degree in Political Science from Torcuato di Tella University and a Master's Degree in Asian Studies in International Politics from Australia's Monash University. Her previous experience as Chief Advisor and Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs for the City of Buenos Aires has provided her with a wealth of knowledge for her current role and preparation for the «Pia Mancini speech».
Professor of political and social philosophy, «Ikerbasque» Researcher at the University of the Basque Country and Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (www.globernance.org). Robert Schuman Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Paris 1 – Sorbonne, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in 2014. He was awarded the Miguel de Unamuno Essay Prize, the National Literature Prize in the Essay category in 2003, the Espasa Essay Prize and the Euskadi Essay Prize. He also received the Humanities, Culture, Arts and Social Sciences Prize from the Basque Studies Society/Eusko Ikaskuntza in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded the Príncipe de Viana Culture Prize. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts, based in Salzburg, and the Academy of Latinity. He has published a significant number of books, some of which have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Euskera, Portuguese and Chinese (forthcoming). Recent publications in English include: «Rethinking the Future of Politics» (Peter Lang, Bern 2010); «The Future and its Enemies» (Stanford University Press, 2012); «The Democracy of Knowledge» (Continuum/Bloomsbury, New York, 2013); «A World for Everyone and Anyone» (Columbia University Press, 2013), (Ed. with Javier Solana); and «Humanity at Risk. The Need for Global Governance» (Continuum/Bloomsbury, New York, 2012).
