Marius R. Busemeyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz,Achim Kemmerling, Gerhard Haniel Professor of Public Policy and International Development, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt,Kees Van Kersbergen, Professor of Comparative Politics, Aarhus University,Paul Marx, Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Marius R. Busemeyer is a Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz and Speaker of the Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality". His research focuses on comparative political economy, the welfare state and inequality. Busemeyer holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg and worked as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. He held visiting professor- and fellowships at, for example, the Center for European Studies at Harvard, the WZB Berlin, the Graduate Center at CUNY (New York) and the Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS).


Achim Kemmerling is the Gerhard Haniel Chair of Public Policy and International Development and director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität in Berlin and has previously worked at Central European University Budapest, Jacobs University Bremen and the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin. He was visiting fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, and the Colegio de México, Mexico. He does research on the political economy of social, labour and tax policies in OECD and developing countries.


Paul Marx is Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen. Previously, he held positions at University of Southern Denmark and at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics (Bonn, Germany). He received his PhD degree in Social Sciences from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 2011. His research interests are related to social and political inequality, political behaviour, and comparative welfare state and labour market analysis.

Kees van Kersbergen studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (MA 1984) and received his PhD degree (with distinction) in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1991). He held positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam, and the University of Nijmegen. He was a visiting scholar at the European University Institute, the University of Konstanz, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lectured at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Sichuan University. Currently he is professor of comparative politics at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Daniel Buhr, University of Tübingen.
Marius R. Busemeyer, University of Konstanz.
Joe Chrisp, University of Bergen.
Jan Drahokoupil, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
Werner Eichhorst, Bremen University.
Rolf Frankenberger, University of Tübingen.
Stephanie Gast Zepeda, University of Erfurt.
Margarita Gelepithis, University of Cambridge.
Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford.
Ulrich Glassmann, Europa-University of Flensburg.
Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome.
Sigrid Hartong, Helmut-Schmidt-University.
Silja Häusermann, University of Zurich.
Anton Hemerijck, European University Institute.
Torben Iversen, Harvard University.
Carsten Jensen, Aarhus University.
Achim Kemmerling, University of Erfurt.
Kees van Kersbergen, Aarhus University.
Alexander Kuo, University of Oxford.
Thomas Kurer, University of Konstanz.
Luke Martinelli, University of Bath.
Paul Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen.
David Natali, S. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
Frank Nullmeier, University of Bremen.
Agnieszka Piasna, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
Nelli Piattoeva, Tampere University.
Georg Picot, University of Bergen.
Michele Raitano, Sapienza University of Rome.
Philipp Rehm, Ohio State University.
Antti Saari, Tampere University.
Stefano Sacchi, Polytechnic University of Turin.
Glenn C. Savage, University of Western Australia.
Gemma Scalise, University of Milan-Bicocca.
Anne Wren.