Cécile Alduy is Professor of French literature and culture at Stanford University and a research fellow at the CEVIPOF at Sciences Po, Paris. She is a specialist of political rhetoric, especially far right discourse, as well as immigration and nationalism in France. Her latest books include Ce qu’ils disent vraiment. Les politiques pris aux mots (Seuil 2017), and Marine Le Pen Taken to Her Words: Deciphering the New National Front’s Discourse (Seuil, 2015). She writes regularly for Le Monde, The Nation, The Atlantic, Libération, etc.

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Mukulika Banerjee is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the LSE. She is interested in the cultural meanings of democracy in South Asia, especially India, and in political anthropology more generally. Mukulika Banerjee’s engagement with anthropology combines the social and the political. Her most recent book Why India Votes? (Routledge, 2014) examines the reasons why despite varying odds, India’s voter graph continues to rise, making India the largest electoral democracy in the world.

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Sylvain Bourmeau was born in 1965 in Nantes. After working as deputy head of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles, he participated in 2008 to the creation of the online newspaper Mediapart. He was also editor-in-chief of the French daily newspaper Libération until 2014. He is now the producer of the French radio show La suite dans les Idées on France Culture as well as associate professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

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Richard Bronk is a writer and part-time academic, with particular expertise in the history of ideas, philosophy of economics, and European political economy. Educated at Merton College, Oxford, with an MA (Oxon) in Literae Humaniores (Classics and Philosophy), he worked seventeen years in the City of London. From 2000-2007, he was a Teaching Fellow at the European Institute, LSE – lecturing on varieties of capitalism, EMU and EU enlargement. Since 2007, Richard Bronk has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute and is author of ‘The Romantic Economist – Imagination in Economics’ (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is currently working on the role of imagination, reason and narratives in decision making in conditions of uncertainty.

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Michael Bruter is Professor of political science and European politics at the LSE, and Associate Member of the ‘Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship’ at McGill University in Montreal. Michael Bruter has published widely in the fields of elections, political behaviour, political psychology, identities, public opinion, extreme right politics, and social science research methods. He has authored four books and numerous articles in leading political science journals. He currently directs four large projects which respectively focus on electoral psychology, European identity, political participation, and extreme right politics.

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After obtaining his MA-degree in political sciences at the Free University of Brussels in 1996 Bart Cammaerts worked as a spokesperson and as advisor on information society issues for Elio Di Rupo, the then Belgian vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Economic affairs and Telecommunication. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in social sciences at the Free University of Brussels. Bart Cammaerts is now Senior Lecturer in the Media and Communications Department of the LSE. He is former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of the European Communication and Research Association and vice-chair of the Communication, Technology & Policy-section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

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Lucie Campos is head of the French Book Office at the Institut français in London, and an editor at La Vie des Idées and at Classiques Garnier. She has coordinated a number of international projects in humanities and social sciences for the French cultural network abroad and for UNESCO, with a particular focus on the intersections between literature, history and philosophy, and on translation and history of ideas.

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Born in 1951 in Paris, Christophe Charle studied at the Sorbonne and the ENS (Ulm). He was a Senior Researcher at the CNRS (1978-1991) and is professor of modern history in Lyon and at Université Paris 1 since 1993. He was Director of the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (CNRS, École normale supérieure) between 2000-2013. He earned the silver medal of the CNRS (2001). He was Senior Member of the Institut universitaire de France (2003-2013). His last books include: La Dérégulation culturelle, essai d’histoire des cultures en Europe au XIXe siècle (PUF, 2015); La Vie intellectuelle en France with L. Jeanpierre (Seuil, 2016).

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Michael Cottakis holds an Msc in European Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and BA in Classics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also Director of the 1989 Generation Initiative at the European Institute of the LSE, an open policy network committed to mobilising young Europeans; or ’89ers’, to lead the long term regeneration of the European Project through the development of innovative policy proposals.

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Martine Drozdz is a social geographer and CNRS Research Fellow at LATTS, a national Research Centre on Urban Infrastructure and Regional Planning based in Greater Paris. In her work so far she studied urban regeneration policies and practices in London and Paris with a focus on measuring and qualifying their effects on local communities and neighbourhoods. She is interested in arguments challenging the dominant narratives of neo-liberalisation and the shrinking of the state in order to provide richer accounts of the contemporary urban condition anchored in democracy defined by Bruno Latour as the possibility to disagree.

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Samuel Everett is an anthropologist at the Woolf Institute and St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He works ethnographically in Barbès, Paris, on the role of trust in religiously diverse urbanism. He is hosted by the CNRS research centre GSRL. He previously worked on the multiple dimensions of Parisian Jewish identification to North Africa particularly in spaces of Maghrebi Muslim-Jewish contact. For the last year he has been engaged in bringing together a network of scholars and civil society actors from Paris and London as part of a PSL-Cambridge scheme to encourage Franco-British partnership. His research practice has involved multi-lingual ethnography in complex urban settings, and tracking how intercultural and interreligious encounter is mediated through localised market relations.

Jonathan Fenby is a British writer, journalist and analyst. He is the author of Will China Dominate the 21st Century? (2014) and is China chairman at Trusted Sources research group. He edited the Observer newspaper from 1993 to 1995 and then the South China Morning Post from 1995 to 1999. Other books include Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today
(2012) and France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror (2016).

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Ludovic Frobert is specialised in the history of economic and political thought. His work focuses in particular on the 19th century. He is Senior Researcher at the CNRS. Since 2015, he is affiliated to the Maison française d’Oxford. He has recently published Les Canuts ou La Démocratie turbulente (Lyon 1831-1834) (Tallandier, 2009).

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Simon Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy at the LSE and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and at the University of York. Glendinning’s work is characterised by the way in which it engages with thinkers and themes from both the ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ traditions in philosophy. Most of his work since 2007 has involved a turn from European Philosophy towards the Philosophy of Europe.

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Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, where he also earned his PhD in 1990. He is a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. He also taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, at the École pratique des hautes études and at Science Po. He is specialised in French political and cultural history since the Revolution. He worked in particular on the legacy of Napoléon and De Gaulle. His latest book is How the French Think: An Affectionnate Portrait of an Intellectual People (Penguin Books, 2015).

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Simon Hix is a Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also is a Fellow of the British Academy, and the author of several books, including What’s Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It (Polity, 2008), Democratic Politics in the European Parliament (Cambridge University Press, 2007) with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and The Political System of the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997). His main areas of research include comparative democratic institutions, especially voting in parliaments and electoral system design, and politics, elections and decision-making in the European Union politics.

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Laurent Jeanpierre is Professor of political science at the Université Paris 8 and former Head of the “Théories du politique” research unit affiliated to the Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CNRS/Paris Ouest/Paris 8). His research interests include intellectual life, political ideas, geopolitics applied to knowledge, arts and ideas. He is also a specialist of issues of exile, political migration, revolutionary and political crisis situations. As a Chief Science Officer, he has been in charge of the World Social Science Report (Unesco) in 2010. He has edited with historian Christophe Charle La Vie intellectuelle en France (Seuil, 2016).

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Rotraud von Kulessa is Professor in French and Italian 18th- and 19th-century literature at Augsburg University. She is particularly interested in the condition of European women writers before 1900, and is part of the international project New Approaches to European Women’s Writing (NEWW). Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa are currently working, in collaboration and with the financial support of the French Society for 18th-Century Studies (SFEDS), on the publication of an anthology concerning the idea of Europe in 18th century literature, which, in the context of the several general elections of 2017, will help to shed a new light on the idea of Europe.

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Nancy L. Green is Professor of History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, where she is a member of the Centre de recherches historiques. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago (1980) and a doctorat d’État from the Université de Paris 7 (1996). She is a specialist of migration history and French and American social history, and her major publications include Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Duke University Press, 1997), The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Citizenship and Those Who Leave : The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation (Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 2007). An edited volume is just off the press: A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and their Homeland Connections (co-ed. with R. Waldinger, University of Illinois, 2016).

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Barbara Lipietz (UCL): Barbara Lipietz is an interdisciplinary planner with a formal background in history and development studies. She is a Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit (UCL) and co-editor of the journal City, which analyses urban trends, culture, theory, policy, and action. She has collaborated with a number of national and international institutions. Her work has involved monitoring and evaluation, policy recommendations, and strategic planning input in the fields of participatory governance and planning, urban poverty, housing policy and slum-upgrading practices. She is particularly interested in how community groups in their diversity can bolster their inputs to long-term and strategic planning.

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David Mangin was born in Paris in 1949. He is an architect and town planner, who won the ‘Grand prix de l’urbanisme’ in 2008. He has taught urban projects at the Versailles school of architecture, at the school of architecture of Marne la Vallée as well as at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Amongst many urban renovation projects his agency SEURA has taken on in important towns like Bordeaux, Marseille and Lille, he was in charge of the new development of the Halles, in the center of Paris.

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Jean-Claude Monod was a student at the Ecole Nomale Supérieure in Paris and holds an agrégation as well as a PhD in Philosophy. He currently is Head of Research at the CNRS (UMR 8547, Archives Husserl) and is Associated Professor in the department of philosophy at the ENS. His book Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie ? Politiques du charisme, was published by Seuil in 2012. In this work, he was particularly interested in the features which define a political leader in a democracy, and the need for such a figure.

Jo Murkens studied English and European Law in London and Copenhagen and wrote his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. He is Associate Professor in Law at the LSE. He was previously a researcher at the Constitution Unit, UCL, where he led the research on the legal, political and economic conditions and consequences of Scottish independence.

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Pap Ndiaye is Professor of history at Sciences Po (Paris). He is specialized in the history of African Americans in the United States. He has also extensively written on minorities in France (history and sociology of Black populations in France). He is currently working on a global history of the civil rights movement in the 20th century, looking at the relations between various movements in the US, Africa and the Caribbean.

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Kalypso Nicolaïdis is Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Oxford. She was previously Associate Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She has published widely on international relations, global governance, trade ethics, law and democracy promotion, as well as the internal and external aspects of European integration. In 2008-2010, she was a member of the Gonzales reflection group on the future of Europe 2030 set up by the European Council. She also served as advisor on European affairs to George Papandreou in the 90s and early 2000s, the Dutch government in 2004, the UK government, the European Parliament and the European Commission.

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Scot Peterson is Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the University of Oxford. He is a political scientist trained in law, and he practised law in the United States before moving to Oxford to pursue a career as an academic. Scot Peterson is interested in the constitutional history of the United Kingdom and of the United States, focusing particularly on matters arising from the relationship between Church and State.

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David Reynolds is Professor of International History at Cambridge. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities and has held visiting posts at Harvard, Nihon University (Tokyo) and Sciences Po (Paris). Reynolds was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. His books include The Long Shadow: The Great War and the 20th Century (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990 (co-edited with K. Spohr, Oxford University Press, 2016). He has also written and presented thirteen historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century.

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Catherine Robert has been the Higher Education Attachée to the French Embassy of the United Kingdom since 2013. She is a Maître de Conférences in German studies at the University of Paris 4–Sorbonne. From 2008 to 2012, she led the Institut français in Bonn. Dr Robert is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St Cloud and passed the Agrégation in German studies, before pursuing a Masters degree in Modern History at Sciences Po Paris. She holds a PhD in Humanities. She also taught at Sciences-Po, the Sorbonne-Abu Dhabi and at ESSEC Business School.

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Florence Robine has a teaching background in physics and holds the high-level French ‘agrégation’ qualification as well as a PhD in epistemology and science history. In 2004, she was appointed to the rank of inspector-general for the French Ministry of Education. Subsequently, she held the position of Chief Executive (rectrice) to the local education authorities of Guyana, Rouen and Créteil respectively. She has also served as an expert on the European Commission’s working group for Maths, Science and Technology. In 2014, Florence Robine was appointed as Director-General for Schools. She is member of the SDG-Education 2030 Unesco Steering Committee for the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of the Global Sustainable Development Agenda.

Lecturer and Researcher at Sciences Po, Nicolas Roussellier is a specialist of political history. His book La Force de gouverner. Le pouvoir exécutif en France, XIXe-XXIe siècles (Gallimard, Nrf Essais) was published in 2015 and won the prix Guizot awarded by the Académie française and the prix Charles-Aubert (law) awarded by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

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Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology at the LSE. He is chair of the advisory commitee of LSE Cities, director of Theatrum Mundi, a collective of artists and urbanists, and advisor to UN Habitat. His research focuses on explored how individuals and groups make sense of the cities in which they live and the work they do. He is currently writing Making and Dwelling, a book about open systems and urban design.

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Catriona Seth is Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford and Professor of 18th-century French literature at the Université de Lorraine, as well as a former visiting professor at Indiana University. She has published extensively on literature and the history of ideas in the 18th century. Her books include Nobody’s Children? Enlightenment Foundlings, Identity and individual Rights (Hola Press, 2012), La Fabrique de l’intime. Mémoires et journaux de femmes du XVIIIe siècle (Laffont, Bouquins, 2013), and most recently Évariste Parny (1753-1814). Créole, révolutionnaire, academician (Hermann, 2014).

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Jiřina Šiklová was born in Prague in 1935. She attended Charles University, where she studied history and philosophy. As a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and advocate for reform, she was one of the catalysts for the events of the Prague Spring. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left the Party and became a member of the underground Czech dissident movement. She was an active campaigner for political reform in Communist Czechoslovakia and was a signatory of Charter 77. Šiklová was also a pioneer in the field of gender studies in the Czech Republic

Dr Julie Smith (Baroness Smith of Newnham) is Director of the European Centre in the POLIS Department, Cambridge University and a Fellow of Robinson College. Her research interests focus on the history and politics of the European Union and the UK’s relations with the EU. She is a co-editor of the ‘Palgrave Handbook on National Parliaments and the European Union’ and her monograph ‘The United Kingdom’s Journeys into and out of the European Union: Destination Unknown’ will be published by Routledge in March. She sits as a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, where she takes a particular interest in European and Defence matters, and is a member of the International Relations Committee.

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Sonia Stolper is the UK and Ireland correspondent for the French daily newspaper Libération since 2009. She previously worked as UK correspondent for the Sud Ouest Group and the AFP, as well as for Radio Méditerranée Internationale (Medi 1).

Damian Tambini is an expert in media and communications regulation and policy, and active in policymaking as well as academic research. He is Research Director of the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE. He is the author of many articles on media and communications regulation and policy and author/editor of several books. He co-wrote Codifying Cyberspace (Routledge, 2008), co-edited Cyberdemocracy (Routledge, 1998) and Citizenship, Markets, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2000). Other publications include Nationalism in Italian Politics (Routledge, 2001).

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Professor Richard Toye’s research focuses on British and international political and economic history in the period since 1867. His books include The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 (Boydell & Brewer, 2003), Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, 2007) and Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (Macmillan, 2010). His next book, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956, is co-authored with Martin Thomas and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

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Jonathan White is an Associate Professor in European Politics at the LSE. He earned his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence, and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Sciences Po in Paris, the Australian National University, and University College London. His paper ‘Emergency Europe’ was awarded the 2015 Harrison Prize for Best Paper in Political Studies.

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Lea Ypi is a Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department, LSE, and Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining the LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD. A native of Albania, she has studied philosophy and literature at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her research interests include normative political theory, Enlightenment political thought, Marxism and critical theory, as well as nationalism in the intellectual history of the Balkans.

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