Giovanni Tria is Honorary Professor of Economics and President of the Center for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has been Minister of Economy and Finance in the Italian government, Full Professor of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Economics at University of Rome Tor Vergata, President of the Italian National School of Public Administration and member of the governing body of ILO for the Italian government. He worked as an economic expert in many Italian institutions and government bodies and for international organizations. He is member of the scientific committees of Italian think tanks and foundations and he is an editorialist for Italian newspapers.
Angelo Federico Arcelli is currently a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Leadership Network (Washington, DC), a full Professor in Economy of Financial Intermediaries (International Institutions) at Guglielmo Marconi University (Rome, Italy) and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, Waterloo, ON, Canada). Federico is also a partner in Oliver Wyman, a global strategic consulting firm. He has served as adviser to the vice president of the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg, 2004-2008) and then adviser and member of the executive board of the World Bank (Washington, DC–USA, 2008-2009). He was a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University SAIS from 2012-2018. He holds a degree (MSc) in economics from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and a PhD in economic history from the same university.