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Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi University, Milan, he worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood). 

He served as President and Secretary-General/Treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies, and received the 'Clogg Award' from the Population Association of America in 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an affilate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

His main interests are fertility and family change, the transition to adulthood, life course analysis, population forecasting, digitalization and demography, and comparative surveys. He has published in scientific journals in demography, economics, epidemiology and public health, geography, sociology, and statistics. He has worked in a number of international projects, and currently the PI of an European Research Council Advanced Grant.

Paola Profeta is Full Professor of Public Finance, Director of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality Director and of the Msc Politics and Policy Analysis. Furthermore, she is President of the European Public Choice Society and member of the board of the International Institute of Public Finance. She is member of the editorial board of several international journals, including International Tax and Public Finance, Europen Journal of Political Economy and CESifo Economic Studies. Previously she was associate professor at Bocconi, researcher at the University of Pavia, Post-doc fellow at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain. Her main research activities include gender equality and public policy, women in politics, policies to promote gender equality and female leadership, public finance, welfare systems (pension, education), comparative taxation, political economics of taxes and welfare state.

Elisa is the Project Officer of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality at Bocconi University. For any administrative issue you can make reference to her at genderlab@unibocconi.it. 

Alda Marchese is a Ph.D. candidate at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano under the supervision of Prof. Patricia Funk. Before starting the PhD, she was a pre-doc at AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality . She holds a M.Sc. in European and International Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a M.Sc. in Politics and Policy Analysis from Bocconi University.

Her research is in the field of gender economics, with a particular interest in political economy, labor economics, and economics of education.

Ximena Caló is a PhD Student in the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality at Bocconi University. Her research investigates when women's presence in politics translates into substantive change, and how institutional filters and external shocks either expand or constrain women's political empowerment, using quantitative methods and causal inference. Prior to her PhD, she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality. She holds an MSc(Res) in European Studies from the London School of Economics (2020) and a BA in Political Science and Latin American Studies from Boston University (2018).