He is the director of the Education and Skills area and the special advisor to the Secretary General of the OECD on Education Policy. It also conducts strategic oversight of the OECD's work on skills development and utilization and its economic and social outcomes. These include the Program for the Assessment of International Students (PISA), the OECD Survey on Adult Qualifications (PIAAC), the OECD International Teaching and Learning Survey (TALIS), and the development and analysis of reference values ​​in the functioning of educational systems (INES). Previously, he studied Physics in Germany and graduated in Mathematics and Statistics in Australia. He has received numerous honorary distinctions and awards.

Previously a faculty member and Professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland he also co-directed from 2004 to 2009 a research stream within the PwC-INSEAD initiative on high-performing organizations at INSEAD, France. A management graduate from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, he received his Ph.D., summa cum laude, from the University of St. Gallen. He held visiting positions at Columbia University, New York and at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research and teaching focus on business ethics, corporate citizenship, integrity management, responsible leadership and HRM. Dr. Maak has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Business, Ethics and Economics ISBEE (since 2009).

She is a linguist, professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid; currently a professor at the CSIC. She has been a visiting researcher at the Linguistics departments of MIT, USC and ILT (Utrecht), among others; and visiting professor at the University of Minnesota (USA), El Colegio de México, U. Carolina de Praga, UAM de México, U. de Rosario y del Comahue (Argentina), etc. He has published several books on linguistic theory, syntax, and lexical-syntax-semantic interfaces. His most outstanding book by experts: Descriptive grammar of the Spanish language (1999, Madrid: RAE / Espasa Calpe, 3 vols.), Which he co-directed with I. Bosque; his most recent book: Telicity, Change, and State.

She has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Brookings, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Among many awards, she won the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative." The American Academy of Diplomacy selected her as the journalist of the year in 2004.

He is Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations dedicated to promoting entrepreneurs in emerging markets through financial support and basic business services. It focuses on supporting those who have a positive impact on the environment and society. ANDE has more than 200 members working in 150 emerging markets. As CEO, Randall oversees the implementation of its programs and agenda including training programs on how to invest in emerging markets, promoting investment opportunities, and the development of standardized metrics for financial return and social and environmental impact of such investments.

He joined the World Bank Group as Senior Director, Head of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice in November 2016. In his role, Riccardo leads a team of about 400 professionals in their work developing policies and financing in the global energy and extractive industries. In 2019, in addition to his role as Global Director, Riccardo assumed the position of Regional Director for Infrastructure in Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, Riccardo was the Managing Director in charge of Energy and Extractive Industries at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, leading a group of 100 professionals. He holds an MBA from Instituto Superior de Estudios de la Empresa (IESE) and postgraduate studies. He is fluent in five European languages.

He has led Chatham House since January 2007. Previously he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2001 to 2006. During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as director of the CSIS Europe Program and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. He is a frequent panelist at conferences and events around the world and has testified on a number of occasions to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as US Senate and House of Representatives committees on European Affairs. He received his BA, MPhil, and DPhil from Oxford University.

He started his diplomatic career in May 1987 when he was appointed Technical Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francisco Fernández Ordóñez. In 1988 he was appointed Consul of Spain to Manila, being appointed Technical Advisor again in 1990. A few months later, he was appointed Technical Advisor for the Relations of Spain with the Central and Eastern European countries. He has also served as ambassador of Spain to Romania, Moldova, and Germany, as well as director-general in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a Law Degree and speaks five languages: Spanish, English, French, German, and Romanian.

He has developed his professional path, career, and experience through key leadership, executive, and management roles in Academic and Research, Government and CEO positions.

He has previously been a professor at the University of Oxford (2009-2011), where he obtained his doctorate in 2003, and at the Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University (2004-2007). Graduated in 1996 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, he later trained at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Juan March Foundation, of which he is an associate member. His research focuses on the political origins and consequences of inequality, with a particular interest in the study of federalism, decentralization, and comparative tax systems. His most recent book is The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press), chosen as the best book on European politics published in 2012 by the American Political Science Association.

Born in Padova, he received his Laurea in “Economia e Commercio” in 1982, from Universita' "Ca' Foscari" in Venezia. Then he went to the University of Rochester to attend graduate school in 1983. In 1987 he received a Ph.D. with a Thesis titled "Stable, Cyclic and Chaotic Dynamics in Models of Economic Optimization Over Time". Lionel W. McKenzie was his Thesis Advisor. Since then, he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago (1986-87) and has held regular teaching positions at UCLA (1987-1990), MEDS at J.L. Kellogg GSM (1990-94) and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1994-1999). After he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1999. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the Economics Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.