Gerhard Schnyder (Ph.D. Lausanne) is a Professor of International Management & Political Economy and the Director of the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London. Previous to his appointment at LU LND he worked as an Reader at King’s College London (2009-2017), and as a Research Fellow at the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, and SOAS, University of London. He has obtained several research fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and a large grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Prof Schnyder is interested in how the interplay between legal-institutional and political factors shapes firm-level corporate governance practices and strategies. His research also touches on the role of the state and of liberal and non-liberal ideas on processes of institutional change in national business systems. His current work focusses on state-business relations and the political economy of populism in particular in emerging market contexts. His recent work was published in Organization Studies, Business & Society, New Political Economy, and Journal of International Management, Global Strategy Journal, among others.

Personal web page: http://www.gerhardschnyder.com/

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Simon Deakin is Director of the Centre for Business Research and Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in the economics of law and empirical legal studies, with particular reference to labour law, private law, and corporate governance. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received the ECGI and Allen & Overy prizes for his research on corporate governance. He has carried out consultancy and contract research for numerous governments, international organisations, companies, business associations, trade unions and NGOs.

Web Page: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/sf-deakin/22

Dr Dorottya Sallai completed her doctoral research in Management at King's College London. Her PhD focused on the Europeanisation of corporate lobbying in the enlarged European Union. Her work is published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of International Management, Business and Society and the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). Her book chapter on multinationals' non-market strategies was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

In her research she investigates state-firm relations, corporate political activities from the perspective of comparative capitalism and the impact of different institutional and political systems on firms and their non-market strategies. Currently she is interested in the impact of exclusionary populists and authoritarian regimes on businesses and national business systems.

Dr Sallai has extensive management and consulting experience. She has worked with private and public sector organisations, governments, companies, NGOs as well as the European Commission, providing consultancy in EU-affairs, public policy, and pan-European evaluation and research projects.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Founding Chair of the Women and Gender Forum at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).

Web Page: https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/academic-staff/dsallai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorottyasallai

Since 1983 Barbara has worked for the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in different positions, now as professor of economics and chairperson of the Scientific Board of the Institute. Furthermore, she was co-founder of the CASE Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw (1991), a think tank devoted to supporting the transition process. She was president of the CASE Foundation from 1991 to 2004, and since 2006 Deputy Chairwoman of  the Council of the Foundation. In  2004 – 2012 she worked also as professor at the Nowy Sącz School of Business - National Louis University (WSBNLU).

She graduated from Warsaw University in 1970 (MA in Economics). In 1975 she received her PhD at the Institute of Organization and Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
In 1987-88 she was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, working at the Phillips University in Marburg and preparing a study on employee financial participation in enterprises in Western Europe and the USA.

Between 1989-1996 she was an advisor to the Polish government and the Parliament on privatization issues. Specially, she took part in drafting the 1990 privatization law and she participated in preparing the section on employee share ownership. Between 1991-1996 she was the deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ownership Changes at the Prime Minister and between 2002 – 2005 member of the Council of the Social and Economic Strategy at the Council of Ministers. She was a consultant and referee for the ACE Phare Project and for the World Bank.

Within her activity at CASE and at the Institute of Economics she has coordinated and participated in numerous domestic and international research projects, including comparative studies on privatization and restructuring processes of enterprises in Central and Eastern European Countries. Her main fields of research interest are privatization, corporate governance, regulation of the state enterprise sector and generally institutional order of the economy and its changes (especially in countries in transition). Previous interests include employee share ownership and industrial democracy. Her additional field of interest was the process of enlargement of the European Union and the economic and social reforms in the countries of E.U. She is an author of over 150 publications in books and journals.

In recent years her main research topic is the reversal of economic and political order in Poland and other former transition countries toward an authoritarian and populist system. She tries to understand the sources of backsliding and to investigate the gradual systemic changes that lead to a system that is no longer controlled by the rule of law.

Web page: https://www.case-research.eu/en/barbara-blaszczyk

Dr. Andreas Nölke is Professor of Political Science at Goethe University (Frankfurt) and heads a research group at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. Before joining Goethe University, he has taught at the universities of Konstanz, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Utrecht. His main research areas are at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, including the political economy of emerging economies, the political dimensions of financialization, the institutions of the German export model, the politics of European economic (dis-)integration and the political economy of populism. He has published in journals such as the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, World Politics, Business and Politics, International Politics, Competition and Change, the European Journal of International Relations, Critical Perspectives on International Business, the Review of African Political Economy, the Socio-Economic Review and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Andreas also served as consultant in the field of development cooperation, mainly for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), but also for the European Commission and the World Bank.

Web Page: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/42416807/anoelke

Mojca Pajnik is research counsellor at the Peace Institute. She earned her PhD from communications in 2005 at the University of Ljubljana. Her recent books include Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe (ed. with B. Sauer, Routledge, 2018), Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration: Theory and Practice (ed. with F. Anthias, Palgrave, 2014) and Racism: Cut Up World (ed. with E. Valenčič, Journal for the Critique of Science, 2015).

She is author of several articles and chapters on citizenship, migration regimes, racism, gender (in)equality and media. She is active as editorial board member of Migration and Ethnic Themes, Global Media and Communication, Journal of Alternative and Community Media and Družboslovne razprave. She has been a guest lecturer and researcher at the University of Florence, the Central European University in Budapest, the University of Helsinki and Loughborough University.

She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana where she teaches at the study programs on communications and media.

Web Page: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/staff/mojca-pajnik/

Marko Ribać is currently employed as an assistant and a researcher of The Peace Institute. He started working at The Peace Institute as a young researcher and a PhD student in 2014 and he defended his doctoral thesis in 2018 (Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana). Beside social, political and theories of communication his main research topics range from mediatisation of everyday life, transformations of political, journalistic and economic sphere to popular protests and social movements.

Web Page: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/staff/marko-ribac/

Iztok Šori, PhD in Sociology (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2012), is a director and a researcher at the Peace Institute. He is in particular interested in intersection of gender, migration and work, which he researches within different social fields (sex work, politics, private lives). He has participated in several research projects that addressed gender equality, political representation and emancipation, prostitution, trafficking in persons, racism, populism, migration and lifestyles. In 2015 he published a book Being Single: Between the Ideology of Family and Ideology of Choice (Aristej).

Web Page: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/staff/iztok-sori/

Lana Zdravković (PhD in Philosophy with the thesis »Politics of emancipation: thought-practice of the militant subject«, 2013) is a researcher, publicist, political activist and artist. Fields of research interest include political engagement, radical equality, emancipatory praxes, thought-practice of the militant subject. She works as researcher at the Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies. She occasionally publishes and collaborates within Slovene media: Dialogi – Magazine for Culture and Society, ČKZ – Journal for the Criticism of Science and New Anthropology, Borec – Journal for History, Anthropology and Literatures, Delo, Dnevnik, Večer, Mladina, Tribuna, Radio Student Ljubljana, Radio Student Maribor, and the Media Watch journal where she is also a member of the editorial board. She is a performer and co-founder of KITCH Institute of Art Production and Research. Fields of artistic interest include neoliberalization and economization of the art, political performance, pornography and art, kitsch and trash art.

Web Page: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/staff/lana-zdravkovic/

Birgit Sauer is professor of political science at the University of Vienna. Her research fields include right-wing populism and media, comparative gender equality policies, democracy and politics of emotions and affects. She was member of several EU research projects, including projects on right-wing populism and media, gender and right-wing populism, violence against women, gender, migration and religion. She also conducted research on affective state transformation. Recent publications include: Mojca Pajnik and Birgit Sauer (eds.): Populism and the Web. Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe, London: Routledge 2017; Otto Penz and Birgit Sauer: Governing Affects: Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work, Routledge 2020; Stefanie Mayer, Iztok Sori and Birgit Sauer: Gendering ,,the people”: heteronormativity and ,,ethno-masochism” in populist imaginery, in: Raniera, Maria (Hg.), Populism, Media and Education. Challenging discrimination in contemporary digital societies, London/New York (Routledge), 2016 (together with), 84-104.

Marlene Radl (MA, University of Vienna) is a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She holds a MA in political science and a bachelor’s degree in developmental studies as well as in economics. Her current academic work concerns right-wing and media populism in Austria, feminist state theory, and the interconnectedness of authoritarian shifts and gender political backlashes in Western democracies. From 2018 to 2020, she worked with different NGOs and trade unions in Vienna coordinating political campaigns.

Helena Botto is a performer and performance-maker working between London and Berlin. She is a PhD candidate at Drama, Theatre and Performance Department at University of Roehampton, in London to which she holds a studentship from Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Her practice-as-research thesis is titled 'Hosting the Monster - Performance and Politics in the age of Impropriety.'

In 2015 she received her MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship (Distinction) from the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) / Universität der Kunst Berlin (UDK).

Her background is in physical theatre: methodology of physical actions, Jerzy Grotowski's 'art as vehicle'. From 1997 – 2005, she performed and co-directed projects in Acto (PT) within this framework. In 2006, she started work as an independent artist developing her own performance work. She was awarded Young Directors Scholarship/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2008), Tanzstipendium/Berlin Senate (2015) and TANZallianz Scholarship/CC Heidelberg (2016), Karl Hofer Gesellschatf (2017), Goethe Institut (2017).  

Web Page: http://helenabotto.weebly.com/ 

Daniel Kinderman, PhD (Cornell University, 2011) joined the University of Delaware in 2011. He specializes in comparative and international political economy and corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a geographical focus on Europe. He teaches courses on European politics, the European Union (EU), corporate social responsibility, comparative political economy and international political economy. His current research focuses on business responses to right-wing populism, the impact of responsible business associations on the CSR performance of their member companies and the relationship between CSR and political-economic institutions. Professor Kinderman has been a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

Web Page: https://www.poscir.udel.edu/people/faculty/kindermd