Stephan Albrechtskirchinger is the Director of the EUI’s Communications Service. Before joining the EUI he held senior positions in communications and public affairs in the private and public sectors throughout Europe. He has followed courses at Harvard and INSEAD and is a graduate of Sciences-Po, Paris.

Laura Lee Downs holds the Chair in Gender History at the EUI and is directrice d'études at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS. Her current research explores the shifting relationships between the social and the political in twentieth-century Europe via the comparative study of civil society mobilizations around social welfare in France, Italy and Great Britain from about 1870-1970.

Brigid Laffan is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and Director of the Global Governance Programme, EUI. Prior to that she was Professor of European Politics, Vice-President at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College of Dublin. She was the founding director of the Dublin European Institute and member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Ruth Rubio Marin is Professor of Constitutional and Public Comparative Law at the EUI. Previously she taught at the University of Seville, and held research and teaching positions at NYU, Princeton, Queen's University and Berkeley. Her primary research areas are constitutional law, immigration and nationality law, law and gender, antidiscrimination law and minority rights.

Vincenzo Schioppa Narrante is the EUI’s Secretary-General. Previously he was Italian Ambassador to South Africa (accredited also in Madagascar, Lesotho, Mauritius and Namibia) and prior to that in Libya. He also held various important posts outside the diplomatic sphere, including City Manager of Naples, special representative of the Italian PM for ICT and senior advisor to the Cabinet Minister for Reform.

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at GGP, where she coordinates the Research Area on Cultural Pluralism. Previously, she was part time professor at the RSCAS, she was Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. She serves as national expert and evaluator of research for several national and international projects and networks and agencies.

J.H.H. Weiler is President of the EUI. Previously he served as Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School and subsequently as Director of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the EUI and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to serve as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. Previously she  co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.