James B. Bullard is the Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. He previously served as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he began his career in 1990 as an economist and later became Vice President and Deputy Director of Research for Monetary Analysis. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Methods, Information Systems, and Economics from St. Cloud State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University. His research interests center on monetary policy and inflation. His main publications appear in the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, among others.

Mário Centeno is the Governor of the Banco de Portugal. He previously served as Portugal’s Minister of Finance and as President of the Eurogroup. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from ISEG–UTL (Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), a Master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research focuses on labor economics and public policy. His main publications appear in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Journal of Labor Research, among others.

Felipe Larraín is a Professor of Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Director of Clapes UC. Previously, he served as the Minister of Finance of Chile. He has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Larraín received a Bachelor’s degree in Commercial Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests focus on macroeconomics and development. His main publications appear in the Latin American Journal of Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, among others.

Boris Vujčić has served as Governor of the Croatian National Bank (CNB) and member of the Eurosystem since 2012; previously, he held positions as Deputy Governor and Director of the CNB’s Research Department. He also served as Deputy Chief Negotiator in Croatia’s accession negotiations with the European Union. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Economics. As a Fulbright Fellow, he pursued doctoral studies at the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. His research interests include monetary analysis, labor economics, and international finance. His main publications appear in Comparative Economic Studies, Transition Studies Review, among others.