She is dedicated to advocating for unity and equality as she believes there is still a lot of work left to be done. For the past 20 years, Ruby has travelled across the US to speak to thousands of children and teachers. «Racism is an advanced disease; stop using children to spread it», she says. She has also developed a project under her name to unite students, parents and teachers from diverse ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds.
Emeritus and Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain, where he held the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016. Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. Visiting Professor at Harvard (2004-2010); Oxford (2011-2015) and Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) (2016). Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium and the British Academy, he is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network, chairing its International Board.
He is one of the world's most prominent economic historians. His journey has taken him to Scotland to the California sunshine, stopping off at King's College, Cambridge and Harvard, as well as Stanford and Michigan. He is Professor of Economics at UC-Davis, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the All-UC Economic History Group and Associate of the Centre for Poverty Research at UC-Davis.
As well as being a technology visionary and a pioneer of «wikis» (a set of web pages designed to allow anyone to contribute and change content), he is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international, free-content Internet encyclopaedia, and of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also the founder of WikiTribune, a revolutionary ad-free news platform that produces fact-based journalism, and co-founder of Wikia, a free private web hosting service that he created in 2004. His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopaedia, led to him being named by Time magazine as one of the «100 Most Influential People» in 2006, in the «Scientists and Thinkers» category.
He teaches economics and strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and researches areas including the impact of technology and management practices on aggregate economic variables such as wage distribution, productivity or economic growth. He also researches ways to prevent a new economic crisis in the eurozone. In this context, and with the «Euronomics» group of economists, he has been proposing solutions, such as European Safe Bonds – ESBies, which are being officially considered by the European Central Bank and the European Commission.
He is Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Lead Researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Studies and the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Member of the European Economic Association and Honorary Member of the Spanish Economics Association, of which he was President in 2001. His primary research areas are econometric theory, labour economics and applied macroeconomics, on which he has published ten books and around 70 articles. Between 2003 and 2010, he was a member of the Economic Policy Analysis Group (GEPA) during the Romano Prodi and José Manuel Durão Barroso.presidencies of the European Commission.
Professor of Economics at Sciences Po University in Paris and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, he holds the Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute in Florence and is an Honorary Mercator Member at Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank. His publications include numerous books and articles on economic policy and European politics. He was Director of Programme and Ideas for Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign (2017) and Commissioner General for the Strategy of France (2013-16), the government's think tank, while in 2005 he founded the Bruegel Institute, which he directed until 2013.
Specialist in macroeconomics and social security and pensions and expert in the sustainability of social welfare systems and the regulation and supervision of pension systems. She is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin (Faculty of Economics) and Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, the first research centre in Italy (and one of the first in Europe) specifically focused on the economic analysis of pensions, aging and public policies typified by the concept of the welfare state. She was Minister of Labor, Social Policies and Gender Equality in Mario Monti's government, where she conceived and designed a series of labour market and pension reforms that were crucial to Italy’s exit from the excessive deficit procedure applied by the European Union. She sought to launch a series of measures that would guarantee a truly intergenerational redistribution of income in the long term.
The eldest son of Olof Palme, former prime minister of Sweden, he is a sociologist and Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University, where he also directs the Centre for Labour Studies. He specialises in social policies from a comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the Swedish pension model, and is also an expert with a solid empirical basis on the social and economic efficiency of public pension systems. He has carried out several studies on the welfare state as an equality strategy, European welfare policies, income redistribution and mixed (public-private) social protection systems, ageing societies, social investment and migration. Responsible for research projects focusing on the effects of the global financial crisis, with a special focus on the political and social relations between European countries, he has participated in various Swedish government commissions and was CEO of the Institute for Futures Studies in Copenhagen. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Chairman of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee "Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy", Chairman of the Migration Studies Delegation (Delmi) and a member of UNRISD (UN Research Institute for Social Development). In 2017, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the UN to head the Swedish Institute for Social Research, a position he currently holds.
French political scientist and academic, as well as Researcher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He was Scientific Coordinator of the European network RECWOWE ("Reconciliation, Work and the Welfare State") and is the author of dozens of articles on reforming welfare policies in France and Europe. Director of the Laboratoire Interdisplinaire d'Évaluaton des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) and Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), he has also taught at Stockholm University, Harvard University's Center for European Studies and the European University Institute. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), based at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Paris).
