Federigo Argentieri teaches at John Cabot University and directs the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs. He studied politics, history, and languages at the Universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Budapest-ELTE, and Harvard. He has widely published on the contemporary history and politics of Central-Eastern Europe and Italy, particularly on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its effects, as well as on Ukraine. He regularly contributes to Italy's main newspaper "Corriere della Sera" and to other Italian and international media.

Ieva Jākobsone Bellomi, born in Latvia, Baltics, is a certified EU lawyer (2002), with an MBA from Boston University (2007) and over 10 years of experience in trade diplomacy in the Baltic States, Russia, the UK, and the People’s Republic of China. She was Commercial and Trade Attachè in London from 2003-2006 and in Beijing from 2012-2016, working on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Eastern and Central European countries. In…