As of 2024, Federica is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Leeds, School of Law, where she teaches and researches in tax law and policy. Previously, she was a PhD researcher at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands) to study the efficacy of the EU list of tax havens. In her PhD, within the context of the EU tax list, she used an interdisciplinary research approach to investigate aspects of EU tax governance, power dynamics, countries’ behavioural compliance, and the qualitative impact of EU tax policy on (developing) non-EU countries.

Currently, her work is centred on the intersection of taxation, social justice, and empirical legal studies, with a strong focus on how tax policies can address social inequalities and promote fairness both nationally and internationally.

She received two prizes—the Meijersprijzen and the Van Wersch Springplankprijs—for her publication, “EU Public Intervention in the Energy Market: A Stroke of Good Luck or Misfortune?”, which concluded on the legitimacy of using EU solidarity measures to face governments’ social responsibility during the energy crisis.

In the past, she worked as a trainee at the European Commission (DG FISMA) to assess countries’ implementation of anti-money laundering (AML) standards and support their development, and to draft EU AML risk assessments. She graduated in 2019 in Law (LL.M. degree) at the University of Bologna in Italy, and in International and European Business Taxation (LL.M. degree) at Tilburg University in the
Netherlands.

Conor is a doctoral researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin (UCD). He holds an MSc in Politics and Data Science from UCD. His research explores how political parties discursively contest controversial macroeconomic policies.

Nessa Ní Chasaide teaches and researches in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests lie in the areas of political economy and economic sociology. She is specifically interested in state development models, financialisation and the politics of the construction of markets. Her PhD thesis developed a framework for tracking ‘global tax games’, focusing on Ireland as a critical case of entangled real and artificial foreign direct investment.

Marie is associate professor in Equality Studies at the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD. She is currently director of the UCD Equality Studies Centre. She was director of the M.Sc. programme in Equality Studies from 2013 to 2017, and has taught on the programme since 2007. She is also a core member of the teaching team on the Social Justice degree programmes since 2010. Across the two programmes, she teaches modules on critical social theory, social movements and egalitarian theory.

Marie has an interdisciplinary background, with a degree in English Literature and Psychology from Trinity College Dublin, and an MSc and PhD in Equality Studies, combining sociology, political theory, cultural studies and political economy. She has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including The European Journal of Social Theory, The Sociological Review, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, The British Journal of Sociology of Education and Historical Materialism. Her first book, Identity and Capitalism, was published by Sage (London and Thousand Oaks) in 2015. She is currently involved in a number of projects for publication, including two monographs, ‘Elites and Left Politics’ (Verso) and ‘Inequality in the 21st century’ (Polity). An interest in equality, and in dominant and residual cultural and political responses to inequalities, animates and connects all her work.

Marie was a Fulbright scholar (21-22) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked on a new framework for conceptualising in/equality and a political history of the concept of elites.

Marie is interested in supervising doctoral students who would like to specialise in critical social theory, ideology and discourse in capitalist societies, elite studies, social justice movements or equality studies.

David Pereira de Castro is a PhD Fellow at Copenhagen Business School specializing in International Political Economy. He focuses on global finance, corporate governance, and the green transition. He has worked on sustainable finance, multinational enterprise governance, and greenwashing, contributing to research and teaching in these areas. In addition to academia, he leads SPOT Nordic, an association for Portuguese researchers in the Nordic countries, and has prior experience in strategic advisory and digital transformation.

Liam is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on political communication, media, political economy, and public opinion. His work makes particular use of experimental methodologies as well as a mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Liam has published in a variety of international journals including Political Research and Methods, Review of International Political Economy and Political Research Exchange. His work on the Democracy Challenged project contributes, in particular, to the analysis of media coverage of corporate tax avoidance, inequalities, and wealth concentration as well as understanding how competing media narratives shape public attitudes on these issues and their impacts on democracy.

Krishna is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin (UCD). He also serves as Director of the PhD program in Global Human Development. He Chairs the Athena Swan Application Committee. Previously he served as co-Chair of both Athena Swan Bronze Award and Athena Swan Implementation Committees. He is also a SFI Public Service Fellow with the Evidence Policy Unit of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DEFHERIS), Government of Ireland.

Krishna holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to UCD he was a Junior Professor at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway and a Research Fellow at the University of Gottingen (Germany). He is Editor of The Journal of International Development. He also serves on the editorial board committees of Journal of Peace Research (JPR) and International Area Studies Review (IASR). He regularly provides consulting for corporate clients in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and policy think tanks like the Fraser Institute (Canada), Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project (Sweden), Global Development Network (GDN), among others. So far, Krishna has lived in India, Sri Lanka, Spain, Germany, Norway and now Ireland. He has been working with multicultural and multidisciplinary (e.g., Politics, Economics, Finance & Banking, Management, Public Policy, Public Health, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, etc) students, research scholars, and Professors.

Yoo Sun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin (UCD). She specializes in the political economy of international trade and investment, using both game-theoretic models and empirical analysis. Her research examines how international institutions and economic relations shape interactions between governments and firms, with a particular focus on the role of international organizations, free trade, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in influencing the distribution of global wealth and challenges to the international economic order. Her work has been published in leading journals such as The Journal of Politics, The Stata Journal, Electoral Studies, and Business and Politics, among others.

Before joining UCD, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Economics from Purdue University. She is also a virtual visiting scholar at Texas A&M University and a co-convenor of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Specialist Group on International Relations & Area Studies