Sébastien Breau is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University. He received his B.Soc.Sc. (Economics) from the Université de Moncton, M.A. (Economics) from the Université Laval and his Ph.D. (Geography) from UCLA. As an economic geographer, his research focuses on understanding the spatial dimensions of recent patterns of income inequality. He has published in a number of international journals, including Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning: A and the Journal of Economic Geography. He currently serves as Academic Director of the McGill-Concordia Quebec Interuniversity Center for Social Statistics (QICSS Lab) and is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science.

Annie Seong Lee is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at McGill University. She earned a Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University in 2021. Her research focuses on the geographies of income inequalities and employment, mobility patterns of women and immigrants, and regional economic development.

Margarita López Forero is an applied economist working on different policy-relevant topics related to the implications of living in a globalized economy. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and is currently a researcher at Evry/Paris-Saclay University. Her professional experience includes France Stratégie, OFCE-Sciences Po, Banque de France, the Colombian coffee producers' NGO and she has been a teaching assistant at Paris I and Paris-Nanterre Universities. 

Clément Malgouyres is a researcher at CREST and Institut des politiques publiques (IPP). His work focuses on the interactions between public policy and corporate behavior and their implications for firms’ stakeholders (workers, shareholders etc.). He has studied the effects of new technologies on international trade and the effects of trade shocks on local labor markets. His recent work focuses on tax policies and their effects on firms and workers.

Grégory Verdugo is Professor of Economics at Université Paris Saclay, Evry where he is also the director of the research department in Economics. His main research interests include labor economics and urban economics. He has published papers on the role of public housing in the spatial segregation of immigrants in France and on the impact of immigration on the location choice of natives across commuting zones in France. His current work focuses on wage inequality and on immigration in France.

Luis Bauluz is an Assistant Professor in Economics at CUNEF and Wealth Aggregates Coordinator at World Inequality Lab. He received a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2018 under the supervision of Thomas Piketty. Before joining CUNEF, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the MacroFinance Lab (University of Bonn). His research lies at the intersection of Economic History and Household Finance, focuses on income and wealth inequality, and has been published in international journals such as The Economic Journal.

Filip is a postdoctoral researcher at the MacroFinance Lab (University of Bonn) and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics, supervised by Thomas Piketty. His research interests are the economics of inequality, political economy and economic history. His research has been published in the Journal of Economic Growth and the Journal of Economic Inequality, among other international journals.

Moritz Schularick is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Director of the MacroFinance Lab. Working at the intersection of macroeconomics, international finance and economic history, Moritz’s research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and various other journals. He is Managing Editor of Europe’s eminent policy journal, Economic Policy, and an elected Member of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin.

Paweł Bukowski is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; a Visiting Research Fellow at London School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance; a Faculty Associate at London School of Economics, International Inequalities Institute; and an Adjunct at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in Economics from Central European University. His research consists of two inter-related streams. The first considers labour market inequalities, in particular, the role of firms and unions in wage determination. The second focuses on understanding the evolution of national and sub-national economic inequalities.

Mark Fransham is a social data scientist who uses quantitative methods, social science theory and computational approaches to study geographic inequality, poverty, demography and public policy. He has a diverse academic career, with training in physics, social work and quantitative geography. Mark is Senior Research Officer and the Departmental Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Department of Social Policy & Intervention, University of Oxford, where he teaches introductory and advanced quantitative methods.

Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, theme convenor at the International Inequalities Institute, and a Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Science. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Science Po Toulouse, and Columbia University. His work considers changing patterns of spatial inequality.