Persons

Leah Rea is a PhD candidate in Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law of Ulster University where she is researching the relationship between constitutional conventions and the progression of human rights. She holds a Master’s degree in Violence, Terrorism and Security, a Master’s degree in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice and a Law degree from Queen’s University Belfast. Leah was accepted into the FEPS Young Academics Network for the 2022-2023 cohort. An alumna of ICNC’s online course on civil resistance, Leah has participated in multiple human rights campaigns in Northern Ireland, and also has experience in student union activism.

Marc Cabañas is Graduated in Political Science and Administration from the University of Barcelona with a master’s degree in Investigative Journalism and Data Visualization from the International University of La Rioja. He has the title of Expert in data analysis for public management and political analysis by the University of Barcelona. Former First Secretary of the Youth Socialists of Baix Llobregat (JSC, Spain) and now Councillor of Presidency, Strategic Projects and Open Government in the City of Sant Joan Despí. Deeply interested in social and territorial inequalities, focusing on gender and age variables, and the relationship of these factors to political and electoral behavior in liberal democracies.

Severin Rapp is an economist, working on wealth inequality and intergenerational transfers. He is interested in improving the availability of evidence on the distribution of wealth and bequests. This includes unearthing new data and creating tools to make data from different sources and countries comparable. Moreover, he has done work on the consequences of wealth inequality and behavioral economics. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Alessandro Liscai is researcher at Astrid Foundation, Associate Research Assistant in the Economic Policy and Jobs & Skills Unit at CEPS and member of the FEPS Young Academic Network. With an economic background, Alessandro focused his research on the evolution of the European economic governance, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the EU budget. His research interests encompass, as well, social policies, the impact of digital technologies on the labour market and on the health sector, and the EU industrial policy (with a particular focus on some strategic EU initiatives, related to critical raw materials and space economy). He researched these fields with quantitative and qualitative approaches, publishing several contributions and reports committed by EU institutions. Alessandro holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and Management at Luiss University, a Master of Science in Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics and a Master of Arts in European Economic Governance at Luiss School of European Political Economy.

Matilde Ceron is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. She is an affiliated researcher of the Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization (ActEU) and Push*Back*Lash Horizon Europe projects. Previously she held postdoctoral positions in political economy (University of Pavia) and political science (Luiss University) and was a Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute. She completed her PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan (NASP) with a dissertation on the EU fiscal framework and the composition of public expenditures in the Member States. holds an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and an MA in Public Policy Analysis from the College of Europe. Her research interest clusters at the intersection of EU economic governance, fiscal policies, gender equality and representation. Her current project focuses on substantive representation and gender mainstreaming in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans.

Jan Bogusławski is a PhD student at Sciences Po Paris, researching the evolutions of the welfare state in Central and Eastern Europe. He also taught courses pertaining to social policy and comparative politics across two campuses of Sciences Po. Over the years, he has worked on various policy-related projects with multiple companies, NGOs (the German Marshall Fund of the US) and academic institutions (the College of Europe). Jan holds degrees from University College London, London School of Economics, and has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. His writings have been featured in several media outlets, including Jacobin and Politico.