Frederic Mishkinstudied at MIT and has taught at Columbia Business School since 1983.  He was a member of the Board of Governors of the from 2006 to 2008 and has been a consultant to the , the , and the , as well as to numerous central banks throughout the world

Kent Matthewsis the Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Banking and Finance at the Cardiff Business School.  He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, Birkbeck and Liverpool University and has held research posts at the LSE, National Institute of Economic & Social Research and Bank of England.

Massimo Giuliodori took his first degree at the University of Ancona (Italy) and his MSc in Economics and Finance at the University of Glasgow.

After obtaining his PhD from the Scottish Doctoral Programme, he moved to the Amsterdam School of Economics of the University of Amsterdam, where he is now Associate Professor.