Miguel Poiares Maduro is Portugal’s minister of state and regional development. Until April 2013 he was the director of the Global Governance Programme, part of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies…

Alexander H. Trechsel is a professor of political science and the first full-time holder of the Swiss chair in federalism and democracy at the EUI. He is also a faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society…

Anna Triandafyllidou is the director ad interim of the EUI’s Global Governance Programme, part of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She has been a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2002 and a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) since 2004…

J.H.H. Weiler is president elect of the EUI and currently based at New York University (NYU) School of Law. At NYU he is a European Union Jean Monnet chaired professor, Joseph Straus professor of law and director of the School of Law’s JSD programme…

Brigid Laffan is a professor of European politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin (UCD). She is a member of the Advisory Council of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and a visiting scientist at EXACT – Marie Curie ITN on EU External Action…