Alessia Amighini is Associate Professor of Political Economy at DISEI, where she teaches International Economics. She has been working for over 20 years on China's economic relations with the world: trade, investment and finance; and on China's political influence resulting from economic ties, in industrialised, emerging and developing countries.

Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes is an assistant professor (RTT) in Economic Policy at the University of Eastern Piedmont and co-editor of the Review of Political Economy. She holds a PhD in Economics from Roma Tre University, an MA in International Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, and an MA in Economic Analysis and Policy from Sorbonne Paris Cité. She regularly publishes in leading national and international academic journals on topics related to economic growth, fiscal and monetary policy, income distribution, and regional economics. She has also edited two volumes of collected articles published by Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Luca Bonacini is a researcher in Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Studies (DISEI) and a Research Fellow at the Global Labor Organization (GLO). After a training internship at the Bank of Italy, he received his PhD in Labor, Development and Innovation from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2021. He subsequently carried out research activities at the same university and, later, at the University of Bologna. He has been a visiting scholar at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and at the University of Luxembourg. His main research interests are in income distribution and inequality of opportunity, with a focus on the issues of education and gender differences.

Fabrizio Casalin is an Assistant Professor (RTDB) of Economics at the University of Eastern Piedmont (Italy). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Milan – Bicocca. Previously, Fabrizio has held positions at the University of Leicester, the University of Middlesex, the University of Newcastle, and IESEG School of Management. Fabrizio's research interests are in the field of macroeconomics, finance, and applied econometrics. He published on various topics like the functioning of equity, bond and foreign exchange markets, public debt sustainability, and unconventional monetary policies. 

Giorgia Casalone is an associate professor of Finance Science at the University of Eastern Piedmont (Italy) and a non-resident fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University (Italy). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) from the University of Paris Nanterre (France). She has participated as a researcher in several research programmes (European Commission, Italian PRIN, Cariplo Foundation, etc.) and has worked as a consultant for the Sevilla Joint Research Center of the European Commission (Spain). Her main research interests are in public economics, labour economics and the economics of education.

Francesco Figari is full professor of Finance Science and Research Fellow at CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto. He deals with public economics and evaluation of fiscal and social policies. Since 2006 he has been involved in the development of EUROMOD, the European Commission's tax microsimulation model of which he is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board.

Paolo Ghinetti is Associate Professor of Political Economy at DISEI. He has worked at the Catholic University of Milan and at LIUC in Castellanza. He deals with issues related to Labour Economics, Education, Health, and Applied Microeconometrics, on which he has published essays and research papers in numerous national and international scientific journals and academic books.

Pedro Trivin is a researcher (RTD-B) in Political Economy at the Department of Studies for Economics and Business (DISEI) of the University of Eastern Piedmont. He obtained his PhD in Applied Economics in 2016 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Before joining UPO, he carried out research and teaching activities at the Universitat de Girona, the University of Bergamo, and the University of Milan. His main research interests include the labour market, household finances, and political economy.

Martin Zagler Martin Zagler is full professor of economic policy. He has held positions at WU Vienna, the European University Institute, University College London, Harvard, and La Sapienza. He frequently publishes in academic journals on the topics of economic growth and international taxation and is the author of two academic books with Palgrave/Macmillan and a textbook on public finance (in German) published by Springer/Gabler.