Nicolò Conti is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome. He has taught in international programmes at the University of Siena, Georgetown University’s Florence Centre, and the FIT State University of New York’s Florence Campus. His main research focus is on parties, elites, cabinets and the European Union. He has recently edited the books The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case (Routledge, 2015 - with F. Marangoni) and Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States: Parties for Europe, Parties Against Europe (Routledge, 2014). He has published articles in Italian and international journals such as West European PolitiNicolò Conti is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University Unitelma Sapienza of Rome. He has taught in international programs at the University of Siena, Georgetown University Florence Centre, FIT State University of New York, Florence Campus. His main research focus is on parties, elites, cabinets and the EU. He has recently edited the book Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States; Parties for Europe, Parties Against Europe (Routledge, 2013); The Challenge of Coalition Government. The Italian Case (Routledge, forthcoming - with F. Marangoni); and Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship (Routledge, 2011 - with M. Cotta and P.T. de Almeida).cs, Acta Politica, South European Society and Politics, Contemporary Italian Politics, European Politics and Society.

Davide Lombardo teaches history at NYU Florence since 2001. He holds a doctorate in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). His research focuses on European Urban Culture from the 19th to the 20th century. Lombardo holds an Italian degree in modern Italian history and a French degree in modern French history and has studied extensively at Edinburgh, York (UK), Grenoble (France), and Pisa and Florence (Italy). In 2009 he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library. In 2011 he was part of the organizing committee for NYU Florence’s events around the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. He regularly gives lectures on contemporary Italy and Europe. He currently teaches three courses at NYU Florence which focus on modern European and Italian history: Culture of the City, Modern Italy and Social Foundations III.

"Gianluca Sgueo is Lecturer in “Media, Activism and Democracy” at the New York University-Florence and Professor in "Global Advocacy" at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Post-doc scholar in Globalization and Democracy (Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal), PhD in Administrative Law (University of Salento, Italy), Gianluca Sgueo graduated in Law (University of Rome, La Sapienza, 2004) and in Political Sciences cum laude (University of Viterbo, 2006). After graduating, he specialized in public, administrative and European law. He obtained a MA in Administrative & Public Law (Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione e degli Enti Locali, Rome, 2005) and MA in European Law (European Public Law Academy, Athens, 2009). In 2008 he was appointed visiting research fellow at the Law School of the New York University. In 2009 (January-September) he was nominated enseignant-chercheur at Sciences Po, Paris. In 2014 (September-November) he joined the Amsterdam Centre of International Law at the University of Amsterdam as visiting scholar. He holds the position of Department Director at I-Com (Institute for competitiveness – a think tank devoted to economic and social analysis), Faculty Member in the Master Program on “Public Affairs and Communication” (Sole24Ore) and Scientific Director of the Master Degree in “Economics and Management of the Nonprofit Sector” (Sole24Ore). Since November 2014 Gianluca Sgueo is appointed policy analyst at the European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament. For more information you may check his blog at: www.gianlucasgueo.com" 

Lilian Tsourdi is a Max Weber Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI). She is a module convenor and tutor at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London and a visiting lecturer at: the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB); Sciences Po Paris; Queen Mary University of London (QMUL); and the University of Turin. Lilian holds a PhD from the Law Faculty and the Institute for European Studies of the ULB. Her current research focuses on the administrative governance of the EU asylum policy and EU funding in selected policy areas. She regularly undertakes consultancy work for EU institutions and international and non-governmental organisations. She was most recently employed as researcher at the Migration Policy Centre of the EUI, the ULB and at the UCL, and as advisor for a Member of the European Parliament.