Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Public and Social Policy, University of Bremen,Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,Matthew Lange, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University,Jonah D. Levy, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California Berkeley,Frank Nullmeier, Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen,John D. Stephens, Gerhard Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Stephan Leibfried is a Research Professor at the University of Bremen and at Jacobs University Bremen, who often worked as visiting professor in the US and UK. At the University of Bremen he has co-founded the Center for Social Policy Research (1988), the Collaborative Research Center on Transformations of the State (2003-2014), the Bremen International Graduate School of the Social Sciences (2007 ff.), a joint school with Jacobs University.


Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received her Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern in 2010.


John D. Stephens is Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies, European Union Center of Excellence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area foci on Europe, the Antipodes, Latin America, and the Caribbean.


Frank Nullmeier is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen and Head of the Department "Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State" at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS), University of Bremen. His work focuses on welfare state theory, social policy and political theory. His most recent work examines the transformation of democratic legitimation.


Matthew Lange is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on states, development, colonialism, and ethnic violence.


Jonah D. Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. He received his A.B. (1984) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1994) from MIT. His work focuses on state transformations, economic and social policy, and the politics of the affluent democracies, most notably France.

Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy
Andreas Busch, University of Göttingen, Germany
Sven Chojnacki, University of Bremen, Germany
Christopher Daase, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Nicole Deitelhoff, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Klaus Dingwerth, University St.Gallen, Switzerland
Sebastian Etchemendy, University Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Peter Evans, University of California at Berkeley
Philipp Genschel, University of Bremen, Germany
Anna Gryzmala-Busse, University of Michigan, USA
John A. Hall, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Peter A. Hall, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany
Tine Hanrieder, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany
Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Patrick Heller, Brown University, USA
Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany
Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Katharina Holzinger, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jingjing Huo, the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan, USA
Helge Jörgens, Free University Berlin, Germany
Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen, UK
Andrew S. Kelly, University of California at Berkeley
Matthew Lange, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen, Germany
Jonah D. Levy, University of California at Berkeley
James Mahoney, Northwestern University, USA
Philip Manow, University of Bremen, Germany
Gary Marks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Walter Mattli, St John's College, Oxford University
Anne Menzel, Free University Berlin, Germany
Sara Niedzwiecki, University of New Mexico
Frank Nullmeier, University of Bremen, Germany
Herbert Obinger, University of Bremen, Germany
Julia S. O'Connor, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
William Reno, Northwestern University, USA
Thomas Risse, Free University, Berlin
Graeme B. Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arjan H. Schakel, at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Klaus Schlichte, University of Bremen, Germany
Susanne K. Schmidt, University of Bremen, Germany
Steffen Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany
Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia, USA
Laura Seelkopf, University of Bremen, Germany
Benjamin Smith, University of Florida, USA
Duncan Snidal, Nuffields College, University of Oxford
Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
John D Stephens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian D. Taylor, Syracuse University, USA
Kellee S. Tsai, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Milada Anna Vachudova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lora Anne Viola, Free University, Berlin
Matthias vom Hau, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals), Barcelona, Spain
David Waldner, The Woodrow Wilson University of Virginia, USA
Bernhard Zangl, University of Bremen, Germany
Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Michael Zürn, University of Bremen