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Stefania Ravazzi is associate professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches Public Policy Analysis, Governing Cities and Governance and Alternative Conflict Management. Her main research interests pertain collaborative governance processes and conflict management, deliberative democracy, urban governance and policies, emergency response policy. She is currently engaged in research on crisis management in European countries and in the application of deliberative methods to restorative justice. From 2020 to 2023, she was a member of the National Commission for Public Debates on Major Works.

Aleksandra Cichocka is a Professor of Political Psychology at the University of Kent. She completed her PhD at the University of Warsaw (2013) and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Psychology at New York University. Between 2018 and 2022, she served as Vice President of the International Society of Political Psychology. Her work applies the psychology of the self and the psychology of groups to help understand the politics of contemporary democracies. She has published over 90 articles and book chapters in various interdisciplinary and specialised outlets, including Nature, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. This work has been awarded several distinctions, including the 2023 Jim Sidanius Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology and the 2017 Jos Jaspars Medal awarded to early career scholars for outstanding research contribution by the European Association of Social Psychology. Her research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, and the Polish National Science Centre.

Agnes Batory is Pro-Rector for Research and Faculty and Professor of Public Policy at Central European University, Vienna. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University. Her research interests include corruption and corruption control, party politics, and policy implementation and compliance problems in EU governance. She is co-editor of Policy experiments, failures and innovations, and her articles appeared, among others, in Governance; the Journal of Common Market Studies; the Journal of European Public Policy; Public Administration; Democratization and the European Journal of Political Research. She recently contributed to large EU-funded projects dealing with collaborative governance; European identification and regional policy; and crisis-management in the EU. New EU projects launching where she is member of the research team are Respond (dealing democracy and political corruption in digital societies) and NET-ROL (on the rule of law in the EU). She serves on the editorial boards of Governance; East European Politics; and the Journal of Common Market Studies as well as the international advisory board of Transparency International EU.