Pepijn Bergsen is a research fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House. He works mainly on issues related to the European economy, ranging from economic relations with the rest of the world to the institutional set-up of the EU and eurozone. Before joining Chatham House, he worked as an economic policy adviser for the Dutch government and subsequently spent several years as an economic and political analyst working on Europe at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Leah Downey is an incoming junior research fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge. She holds a PhD in political theory from Harvard University, an MSc in economics and philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and BAs in both mathematics and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently finishing a book entitled Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Mattered, which examines the intersection of monetary policy and democratic theory. She also has research interests in the administrative state, the temporalities of macroeconomic policymaking, and the role time plays in democratic theory.
Max Krahé is a historically oriented political theorist and political economist, working primarily on North America and Western Europe since the end of Bretton Woods era. He is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he coordinates the PhD programme ‘Die Politische Ökonomie der Ungleichheit’ [the political economy of inequality]. He is also a co-founder and the research director of Dezernat Zukunft, a Berlin-based macro-finance think-tank. His work has appeared in History of Political Thought, Critical Historical Studies, the Financial Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among other publications.
Hans Kundnani is an associate fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House. He was previously a senior research fellow and director of the Europe Programme. Before joining Chatham House in 2018, he was senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Paradox of German Power (Hurst, 2014), which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.
Manuela Moschella is associate professor of international political economy at the Scuola Normale Superiore and an associate fellow of the Europe Programme at Chatham House. She is also an associate editor of the Routledge Studies in Globalisation Series. She is the editor (with Eleni Tsingou) of the book Great Expectations, Slow Transformations: Incremental change in post-crisis regulation (ECPR Press, 2013), and author of the book Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Stability (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). Her research focuses on the relationship between technocracy and politics, the role of institutions and economic ideas in economic policymaking, and the politics of central banking.
Quinn Slobodian is the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College, and an associate fellow at Chatham House. He is the author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), and the co-editor (with Dieter Plehwe) of Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South (Zone Books, 2022) and Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). His next book, Crack-Up Capitalism, will be published in 2023 by Metropolitan in the US and Penguin in the UK. He is the co-director of the History & Political Economy Project.
