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Bruno Maçães is a foreign correspondent for The New Statesman and was the Portuguese Europe minister from 2013 to 2015. He is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a Member of the Advisory Council for the Brussels Institute of Geopolitics. He was previously a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, the Hudson Institute, and Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is the author of four books: Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order, History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America, and Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis.
Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute), Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and independent non-executive director of Acea.
She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She is Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). She was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and, prior to joining Acea, she was independent board member first of Edison and then of Eni.
She has held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels; the Transatlantic Academy, Washington; the European University Institute, Florence; and has taught at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her research interests include European integration and European foreign policy, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, transatlantic relations, multilateralism, conflict resolution, energy, climate and defence.