The scientific and organizing committee consists of :

• Laura Chaqués Bonafont, is a Professor of Political Science at the Universitat de Barcelona and a director of Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) since 2024. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Universitat de Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. With an extensive academic background, she has served as a visiting professor at esteemed institutions such as the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and King’s College London. She leads the research group “Quality of Democracy“. She has written several books, numerous book chapters, and articles published in prestigious academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, The British Journal of Political Science, West European Politics, Political Communication, the Journal of Public Policy, and the European Journal of Political Research. Her research excellence has been recognized with various awards, including the ICREA Academia award. Currently, her primary research interest lies in the comparative analysis of agenda dynamics, with a specific focus on the roles of interest groups, political elites, and social media.
• Charles Roger is an Assistant Professor and Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI). He is the author of The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters (OUP 2020). 
• Angel Saz-Carranza (Barcelona, 1976) is Director of ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics in addition to being Associate Professor of the Department of Strategy and General Management and Visitng Professor at Georgetown University’s MCDonough School of Business. He earned a PhD in Public Management from ESADE as a Visiting Scholar at Wagner School of Public Service (New York University) where he spent three years. Previously he earned a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College (University of London). A beneficiary of La Caixa and Fulbright scholarships, he was selected as “Best 40 under 40 MBA Professors” by Poets & Quants. His research has been published, among others, in the Journal of Public Administration and Theory, Public Administration Review, Global Policy, and Corporate Governance International Review. His interests are business-government relations, nonmarket strategy, intergovernmental organizations, and organizational networks.
• Marie Vandendriessche is a Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator at the EsadeGeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona/Madrid). Her work focuses on global governance and geopolitics, with a special interest in the interface between energy and climate change, and her research has been published at the European University Institute and the Brookings Institution. She is or has been involved in Horizon 2020 projects such as GLOBE (Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios), MERID (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue), and ENGAGE (Envisioning a New Governance Architecture for a Global Europe). She is also affiliated faculty at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Her doctoral research at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona focuses on regime complex evolution and institutional choice, particularly in the fields of energy and climate change.