Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Scientific Director of the WSI at the Hans Böckler Foundation. Anke Hassel has extensive international experience and scientific expertise in the fields of the labour market, social partnership, codetermination, and the comparative political economy of developed industrial nations. She was an expert in the fact-finding committee on growth, prosperity and quality of life in the German Bundestag (2012-13); the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015-17) and chairwoman of the expert group on Workers' Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe (2015-2018). She is the co-editor of Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies (with Bruno Palier; OUP 2021) and How to Do Public Policy (with Kai Wegrich; OUP 2022)
Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes. He was trained in social science and has a PhD in Political Science. His research explores welfare state reforms around the world. He was director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) between 2014 and 2020. He is the co-editor of the two volumes of The World Politics of Social Investment (with Julian Garritzmann and Silja Häusermann; OUP 2022) and Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies (with Anke Hassel; OUP 2021).