Didier Georgakakis is a French Political Scientist specialized in the Political Sociology of the European Union. A Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair at Sorbonne School of Politics (Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne), he is also a member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CNRS/P1/EHESS), a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, and has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) since 2007 and is Academic Coordinator of its Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies (IDEAs) Programme.

Martin Westlake is a British Political Scientist and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (United Kingdom). He has spent over four decades studying European integration and working in European Union government and politics. He has published widely on the European institutions and on European and British politics. He is also the author of a major political biography (Kinnock, The Biography).