Massimo Filippini has a joint Professorship in Economics at the ETH Zürich and the Università della Svizzera Italiana since October 1999. He is director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zürich, member of the Center for Economic Research at ETH Zurich (CER-ETH) and coordinator of the network 'Empirical Methods in Energy Economics' (EMEE). Filippini´s main fields of specialization are energy economics and policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics and public economics. He is also a member of several editorial boards and has published several books, book chapters, and more than 90 articles in top field and field peer-reviewed journals.

Xavier Labandeira is a Professor of Economics at the University of Vigo and director of Economics for Energy and of the Galician inter-university research centre ECOBAS. After completing graduate studies at University College London, his European doctorate focused on the use of energy regulations to tackle environmental problems. He was director of the Florence School of Regulation Climate at the EUI (Florence) between 2014 and 2017 and participated respectively as lead author and review editor of the IPCC Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports within WG3 (mitigation). He has been active in knowledge dissemination and debate on policies to tackle environmental problems, particularly as a member of the Spanish tax reform commission (2021-2022), and belongs to the EAERE's Policy Outreach Committee (Secretary General since 2024). He was awarded with the Galician Academy of Sciences medal on research achievements in economics and social sciences in its first edition (2019).

Professor Andreas Loeschel holds a Chair for Environmental/Resource Economics and Sustainability at the Ruhr University Bochum. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Mannheim in 2003. Since 2011 he has been the chairman of the Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation. Andreas Loeschel is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report (2010-14, 2017-21) and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung economist ranking he was several times among the 50 most influential economists in Germany.