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Dr Eleanor F. Woodhouse is Associate Professor of Public Policy at University College London, in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. She is a scholar of comparative politics, gender and politics, and public administration who studies how agency relations function in modern governance. She studies the increasingly complex ways in which governments enact their policies – for example, the ever-lengthening chains of delegation from sovereign power to point of service delivery – and how this affects fundamental features of democracy, such as the ability to hold key political players to account. Before undertaking her PhD at Bocconi University, Dr Woodhouse worked as a Policy Officer at the European Commission. Dr Woodhouse’s work has appeared in political science and public administration journals including the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and the Journal of Public Policy. 

With a background in Economics, Politics and Communications, Roberto works now at the European Central Bank, focusing on Internal Communications and Diversity and Inclusion topics. Prior to the ECB, Roberto has worked in consulting on social issues and as a Research Assistant at the Gender Lab. 

Piera Bello is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).  Before joining the University of Bergamo, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University College London and at the University of Zurich. Her research has focused on gender and education economics, and household finance.

Manuel Bagues is a Professor at Warwick University and he worked previously at Aalto University and Universidad Carlos III. He does research in Applied Economics, with a particular focus on Personnel Economics and Gender Economics. He is also interested in the determinants of voting behaviour.

Agnese Vitali is Professor of Demography at the University of Trento, where she teaches demography and quantitative methods and coordinates the PhD in Sociology and Social Research. She previously worked at the University of Southampton and at Bocconi University. Agnese's research studies gender roles, families and fertility behaviours using an interdisciplinary perspective. Her research is published in Demography, European Sociological Review, European Journal of Social Policy, among others.  

Daniela Del Boca, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison, Professor of Economics University of Turin, is Fellow of Collegio Carlo Alberto, CEPR, CEsifo, HCEO, and IZA. She is Director of CHILD and and Co-Director of IEU (Impact Evaluation Unit). Her main research interests are labor, household economics and child development. She has published several books and papers in international journals. She is Associate Editor of the the Journal of Human Capital and Review of Economics aof the Household. In 2007 she was awarded The Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic and in 2021 received the Tarantelli Prize for her contribution to the field of Labor Economics.